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DO NOT sleep with contacts in! My uncle did that once and they got stuck to his eye and slightly damaged it so he was never able to wear contacts again.
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I have a mental block on putting contacts in, no joke. I got one in once (at the eye place) and it took forever. And then taking it out was so painful. Never again, ugh.
Yay I'm not alone!!! Like it would be super great to have contacts but it's not worth the hassle. Like when I'm tired I throw my glasses on the dresser but when my sisters are they have to climb out of bed, go to the bathroom and pull their contacts out of their eyes. And after that I probably wouldn't be tired anymore.SAME!! It makes me feel so much better to know I'm not the only one who can't put them in. My eye doctor put the first one in and then I had a full on meltdown trying to put the other one in. I was so embarrassed because I was so scared and crying that it made it impossible for me to put it in. I'm sick of my glasses and would love contacts, but they just aren't for me so I'm waiting until I'm old enough for laser eye surgery.
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Honestly the daily disposables are the best option if it's an affordable option. Technically you're "allowed" to sleep in certain disposables like monthly ones, but no respectable optometrist will tell you that they approve of that on a regular basis. By the time my parents figured out my eyesight was bad I couldn't see tree branches, leaves, xmas lights, the chalkboard at school (which is how they figured it out bc a teacher called home since I couldn't see from the front row). In retrospect my eyesight must have been bad pretty early on bc that's how I thought you were supposed to see. I was in the 6th grade. I also cheered back then in middle school (WAY LESS intensive than cheer is now, much less Allstar) and I couldn't cheer in my glasses. The lack of peripheral vision for me, as well as above and below if awful. For anyone who wears contacts I'm a -6.50, which is better after my eyes seem to have stabilized finally (I'm only 36 :rolleyes:- it only took 24 years); I used to be -7.50 in my worst eye, the right.That's good. :)
I would 100 percent go for contacts but I am against touching my eyes. How did she get over it? I would most likely get daily contact lenses. If I was to get contact lenses, would you sleep with them on or would u throw them away at night and then wake up and put them on? (I'm full of questions!)
Glasses make my allergies worse bc they trap dust and dirt underneath them and confine them to my eye area. If I wear my glasses for an extended period of time (a few days), I'll end up with allergic conjunctivitis (non-contagious pink-eye). I take more allergy medicines than anything else (8 daily counting the anti-histamine prescription eye drops).I wear glasses all the time and I can't really wear contacts because I have allergy problems and anything in/around my eyes makes them worse. I've been fine with this so far but I'm only on a level 2 team so we don't do anything super fancy, at a higher level I can definitely see how they would be a problem. I had a pair of glasses that were a bit loose so kept falling off when I was tumbling, I switched to a tighter pair that don't fall off my face. I've looked at sports goggles (the type they use for ball games) and they seem like they could be an option, they are pretty ugly though :p If you want to keep wearing glasses and you're worried about them breaking, tell your optometrist, they can help you pick frames/lenses that will hold up better to sports/being hit (my optometrist always used to ask me if I was planning to play sports or anything, so they could take that into account). If contacts are an option for you then they would definitely be an easier way to go though.