How many people here wear contact lenses?

[Slainte]

Originally Posted by Metrolike

This is pretty much completely false. If you're willing to spend the money, they have contacts out there designed to go a full 30 days of day/night wear without any issues at all. It's recommended you take them out to clean them after 15 days, but you don't even have to do that.

[Shrug]...They're *your* eyes, maltreat em how you want to, I guess.

[Stewie]

Originally Posted by Slainte

[Shrug]...They're *your* eyes, maltreat em how you want to, I guess.

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.

[alnorth]

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.

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.

[Pants]

Originally Posted by alnorth

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.

Because the contacts are DESIGNED to last 30 days in your eyes without being taken out. The more you take them out and mess with them, the more they lose their integrity. And eye infections are a nuisance at worst. You get some antibiotic eye drops and use them for a week to get rid of the infection. It's not like you go blind.

The thing people need to worry about is starving your eyes of oxygen because that can cause some permanent damage. This happens when you buy regular short term contacts (that are meant to be cleaned daily or disposed of weekly, etc) and wearing them for months at a time without cleaning.