• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    11·
    10 days ago

    Getting them out is even more fun

    You basically shallow-pinch them between thumb and index finger

    Just don’t think too much about the fact that you’re basically pinching your eyeball

    • Psythik
      3·
      10 days ago

      You do? I’ve been wearing contacts for 25 years. All I do is grab them with my index finger.

    • Buddahriffic
      3·
      10 days ago

      One time one of mine fell out but I thought it was just sitting wrong and first poked at it to rotate it, then tried to pinch it off for a bit before realizing it wasn’t even there and I had just been poking and pinching just my eye for a few minutes.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    11 days ago

    I’ve never worn them (in my case, they’d be the cosmetic kind anyway) but I can imagine. My brother wears contacts and says you don’t even feel them and I have to wonder if its just because you get used to it or what. Because even a single spec of dust in my eye bugs the hella outta me. 🤣

    • Nima@leminal.spaceEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      the speck of dust hasn’t been engineered to be comfortable on the surface of the eye like a contact lens. a contact lens can be felt, but not the same way a spec of dust can. they’re medical devices. they’re made to be on your eye comfortably.

      they don’t feel strange or irritating when you blink. and after a few days wearing them, most people don’t notice them. i typically only notice mine if I haven’t blinked in a long time and they kinda can feel a bit dry or cold. or I notice them if I’m very tired and have been wearing them all day.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
      2·
      10 days ago

      Also annoying to clean, and people sometimes forget them and they get nasty infections of life acanthomoeba keratitis

    • Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      10 days ago

      I used to wear extended wear soft contacts, but I’m a trash goblin and I’d leave them in for a month at a time, only cleaning them by vigorously squirting my eyes with saline when they would bother me.

      I cut that shit out years ago when one pretty much glued itself to my eye and I spent an hour aggressively pinching my eye to extract it.

      I never got good at putting them in/taking them out. I’m jealous of people in instructional videos that can just pop them in/out in seconds.

    • Psythik
      21·
      10 days ago

      Your brother is trolling you. I’ve been wearing contacts for over two decades now; you definitely feel them. After 6-8 hours they become unbearably irritating and I have to go back to glasses for the rest of the day.

    • limelight79
      1·
      10 days ago

      I started wearing them again after about 20 years of only using glasses, though I had used contacts for several years back then.

      “Oh yeah, I know how to get them in and out!”… Cue finding a YouTube video to remind me. Lol.

      I mainly use them for cycling and driving (long drives, not every time I get in a car).

      But once they’re in, I basically forget about them.

  • Archer
    2·
    10 days ago

    I thought there was shady admin stuff going on in Risa and that’s why this community exists?

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    1·
    9 days ago

    I can’t wear contacts because apparently you can’t make them in my prescription, but I did have some for a Halloween costume and those things felt really weird. I can’t imagine putting up with them being in your eye all day.