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Originally Posted by Stewie
The contacts I wear are 24/7 for 30 days. When I first started wearing them five years ago they recommended taking them out once a week due to infection concerns. That was found to be a non-issue and now there's no problem wearing them 30 days straight. I just had a checkup in February and my eyes are as healthy as can be. The advice your ophthalmologist gave you is bogus. I'm sure he has stuff to sell you to do it another way.
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I'm guessing its more along the lines of "the added risk is negligible for these specific contacts" rather than "it makes no difference at all". I refuse to believe that taking out contacts every night makes no difference at all. I've had 3 eye doctors and none of them like the idea of wearing them to bed, no matter what kind of contacts they are.
If you have contacts intended to be worn a lot where taking them out every night reduces the risk by only 1%/year or whatever of getting an infection, I might believe that, but with my eyes I want to take that extra step to avoid an infection even if it doesnt make much of a difference.
Seriously, it takes no effort at all. It's what 45 seconds out of the day, no discomfort, no hassle, to remove and clean contacts. I don't understand why anyone wouldn't.