I wear soft contact lenses and sleep in them most nights...?!
Question: I wear soft contact lenses and sleep in them most nights....?
Before anyone gets on me for sleeping in my contacts, my eye doctor knows, and actually admitted that he sleeps in his contacts most nights too. Every now and again I wake up with redness right around my iris, directly under the edge of the contact lens, almost contact shaped. I take the lens out for a day or two, and all is fine. I usually don't have any irritation, maybe just some watering. Could this be a bacteria that creeps under my contact while I sleep and only irritates the eye under the contact.? Any contact wearers experience the same thing.? What could it be.?Health Question & Answer
Answers:
I have Lasik now, but for about 18 years I wore contacts. For the better part of those years I slept with my contacts in, and I didn't seem to have any serious problems with it. Sometimes it seemed like I got eye infections more often, so I would stop doing it for a while until my eyes healed.
At first I used the just regular disposable contacts, meant for wear for 30 days. My doc told me that if I was sleeping in them I should only wear them for 15 days. But instead, I used eye drops frequently, and once a week I would put them in with a protein remover for one night a week. That seemed to make them last the whole month pretty comfortably. Then I used the "Day and Night" contacts that are approved to wear for 30 days, with essentially the same routine. Those seemed more comfortable at the end of the month.
The last contacts I was using was the Focus Dailies, which I loved. I'd pop them in in the morning, then when I got into bed at night I'd pull them out right before I fell asleep and throw them on the night stand (I'd have this little pile of crunchy contacts after a few days!). Then I'd put in a new pair in the morning. I sometimes slept with those in too and it was no big deal, but they were dry in the morning.
But, if you can afford it, I really recommend Lasik. Its worth it, not having to wear contacts at all!Health Question & Answer
At first I used the just regular disposable contacts, meant for wear for 30 days. My doc told me that if I was sleeping in them I should only wear them for 15 days. But instead, I used eye drops frequently, and once a week I would put them in with a protein remover for one night a week. That seemed to make them last the whole month pretty comfortably. Then I used the "Day and Night" contacts that are approved to wear for 30 days, with essentially the same routine. Those seemed more comfortable at the end of the month.
The last contacts I was using was the Focus Dailies, which I loved. I'd pop them in in the morning, then when I got into bed at night I'd pull them out right before I fell asleep and throw them on the night stand (I'd have this little pile of crunchy contacts after a few days!). Then I'd put in a new pair in the morning. I sometimes slept with those in too and it was no big deal, but they were dry in the morning.
But, if you can afford it, I really recommend Lasik. Its worth it, not having to wear contacts at all!Health Question & Answer
when you consult your optalmo, they will tell you not to do that since there will be oneday that you will have eye irritations and possibility of bacteria that can cause you a big problem in the future. besides most optalm will tell you as well that you can use not more than 8 hours after the whole day you should take out and put your glasses on to replace the lenses. i have a friend whose been using lenses since she was 14 one day she delevelop mushroom in the eye it's good she took care immediately otherwise interior infection can set in and she might lose her one eye, think of that.Health Question & Answer
I wear mine nonstop for a month or more at a time lol. One time I had to go to the doc for drops because it was an infection/ poss scrached cornea but nothing since. Your eye just gets dry and yes bacteria is everywhere but your eye juice lol has something in it that helps to naturally kill most bacteria so rarely will you have a problemHealth Question & Answer
I used to sleep with my lenses and experienced the same thing. After a few weeks I was suffering from extreme dryness and discomfort. My suggestion to you would be to stop sleeping with your lenses.Health Question & Answer
I have been sleeping in my contacts for a week at a time since I was 12. I am now 25 and have never had problems. My eyes are never red.They never itch. They have never got infected. I have the 2 week Acuvue lenses.Health Question & Answer
if you have sensative eyes, it probally is cuz ur sleeping in them. also, if you have toric the air does not get ot your eye. so best advice: don't sleep in them.Health Question & Answer
Don't sleep in them.Health Question & Answer
Our eyes have poor blood oxygen, what's is done directed with air contact. That's because we have to let them free as much as we can during the nights, if we wear contact lenses. My lenses are done to be wear for one week without taking them out. But I don't do it, instead I sleep without them, even why I feel much more comfortable and I have better nights if free of them. I think is so easy and fast to put them on every morning, as you get used to. Because your doctor sleeps on his lenses and feel good, it doesn't mean it would be the same for us. I use to put mine into the freezer during the nights, so I can wear mines for longer periods. Health Question & Answer