<p>I just got contacts a few days ago, and this is probably the 4th day that I'm wearing. It takes me around 15 minutes to get both contacts in every morning. Honestly, am I just stupid and bad at putting in contact lenses, or does it take longer until (as I keep hearing) "putting in contacts become second nature."</p>
<p>How long did it before putting in contact lenses become "second nature" and does anyone have any tips on how to take them out? lol</p>
<p>The point I"m trying to make is that I really need to get better at putting in contact lenses otherwise I'm gonna have to wake up like half an hour earlier when school starts just to put them in.</p>
<p>Well, I don't where contacts, but I asume that it will become second nature in....2-3 weeks, or at least it won't take you 15 minutes. I don't know how to get them out, but have you tried a fire poker? ;)</p>
<p>Well I've had contacts for 4 years, so I can do it in about 3 seconds to get them in, 1 second out lol. Right when I got them, the problem was that if you get it in, sometimes there'll be something on the lens that killllllllls your eye, so you have to try and get it out, and then you're like, wait I can't get it out! - so you can clean it off and try again. Make sure you have a good solution that really works for you. If you can feel the contacts in your eye any more than just BARELY, then it's probably not good enough. Also, the first brand of contacts that I had were TERRIBLE. Obviously, I didn't know it at the time, I just thought that's how contacts were. They were next to impossible to get out, and they hurt all the time. Now I have Acuvue Oasys and they are AWESOME [at least for me :D].</p>
<p>Anyway, I think you'll get the hang of it pretty soon - it definitely shouldn't take 15 minutes to get them in. For a tip - maybe instead of trying to come STRAIGHT at your eyeball with the lens on your finger, come towards your eye with the lens facing a little more upwards, so that the bottom of the lens hits your eye first, then kind of move your finger upwards to get the whole lens on. For getting them out, just grab it! Use two fingers [and you can hold your eye open with your other hand] placed on the left and right sides of the lens, and seriously, just grab it. It'll feel like your grabbing your eyeball, but obviously you're not, and the lens should come right out :]</p>
<p>Ehh... I've been wearing contacts for over a year and I still have issues with them. I'm jealous of my friends and my mom who have no problems with them. =(</p>
<p>I first got contacts in like 7th grade. They were TERRIBLE. It took me forever to get them in and out and when I did, they were always REALLY dry. Then my eye doctor switched me over to Freshlook (because I wanted colored lenses) and they feel soooo much better. After about a week I was able to put them in and take them out easily and without a mirror.</p>
<p>I've got Acuve Oasis too, except for astigmatism, and I've had them since about fifth grade. In the beginning, they took forever to get in, but once you find the right solution (I use Renu) and make sure the contacts don't have any funk in them before you put them in, you'll be fine. I estimate about 2 months for you to completely have the hang of it, but it'll take far less than 15 minutes in just a few weeks. Pretty soon, you'll be putting them in on the bus ;).</p>
<p>There was a onrecall some variety of Renu solution a year or two ago. I had used it, and it had given me sores on my eyes that were SOOO painful you wouldn't believe it, they said that the scars would never go away [I took steroids though so that they would, and now they're gone] and that if they had happened on the part of my cornea directly above the pupil I'd have had vision problems for the rest of my life. Luckily the 3 SORES! that I did get were on the outer ring of the cornea and now they're gone. So beware Renu lol. I use.. I can't think of the name, it's in a green wrapped container? lol.</p>
<p>Don't feel bad. It takes me 2 hours to get it in so I just wear glasses. But when I want to dance, I have to be blind. Ugh... <em>sigh</em> If you find a good solution, tell me.</p>
<p>Omg. It took me literally three weeks of practice to be able to get them in at all! The lady who was training me was getting realllly frustrated. (My eye doctor has, like, mandatory "training sessions" until you can successfully get them in.) I had to go in on three different occasions; after the first two, she let me take them home to practice, even though she's not supposed to, 'cause she knew I wouldn't be able to do it otherwise... lol.</p>
<p>For the first few days after I could actually DO it, the time it took declined rapidly. The first day, it was about ten minutes per eye. The second day, it was ten minutes altogether. The next few days, it was about five minutes altogether; now (I've had them for a month or so) it's like ten seconds per eye (except on days where they just don't want to cooperate, in which case it may take two minutes altogether.)</p>
<p>Putting them in, I do the same thing as poopmaster. I can't put it directly onto my pupil like some people do; I ALWAYS blink and ruin it. </p>
<p>As for taking them out: I slide it to the side of my pupil, which breaks the suction, and then kinda grab it with two fingers.</p>
<p>My eye doctor swears by Opt-free contact solution. It's in the green bottle. LOVE the stuff, i carry some in a separate eye drop bottle just in case I doze off in class and they get a little dry, hehe. I can go all day in them without feeling them at ALL, but if i even close my eyes for 5 minuets, they get very dry. </p>
<p>The lady who trained me was so stupid, she basically did it for me and sent me off on my way. I got home and i had no idea that if you take a shower with them in, they dry out a little from the steam. took me 2 and a half hours that night to get them out, on EACH EYE! But I went back, and I'm a pro now :P </p>
<p>Believe me, if I can do it, anyone can. I couldn't even handle eye drops before, and now i freak my friends out when I touch my eye <em>clean hands of course</em> :P </p>
<p>I almost had to give up contacts because my eye is allergic to certain types of plastic. Accuve with Hydraclear was the brand I had, and I went in complaining of a sticky substance on my lenses and the nurses just looked at me and said "it's mascara. learn how to clean your lenses." Forced them to let me see the doctor, and the second he saw it, he knew I was allergic. I guess the allergy makes my eye dump protein on the lens. Shut those nurses right up :P</p>