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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/54586071
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Getting them out is even more fun
You basically shallow-pinch them between thumb and index finger
Just don’t think too much about the fact that you’re basically pinching your eyeball
One time one of mine fell out but I thought it was just sitting wrong and first poked at it to rotate it, then tried to pinch it off for a bit before realizing it wasn’t even there and I had just been poking and pinching just my eye for a few minutes.
You do? I’ve been wearing contacts for 25 years. All I do is grab them with my index finger.
At least for me that never worked
Although I always had soft contacts, so maybe the handling is different
I’ve never worn them (in my case, they’d be the cosmetic kind anyway) but I can imagine. My brother wears contacts and says you don’t even feel them and I have to wonder if its just because you get used to it or what. Because even a single spec of dust in my eye bugs the hella outta me. 🤣
the speck of dust hasn’t been engineered to be comfortable on the surface of the eye like a contact lens. a contact lens can be felt, but not the same way a spec of dust can. they’re medical devices. they’re made to be on your eye comfortably.
they don’t feel strange or irritating when you blink. and after a few days wearing them, most people don’t notice them. i typically only notice mine if I haven’t blinked in a long time and they kinda can feel a bit dry or cold. or I notice them if I’m very tired and have been wearing them all day.
I started wearing them again after about 20 years of only using glasses, though I had used contacts for several years back then.
“Oh yeah, I know how to get them in and out!”… Cue finding a YouTube video to remind me. Lol.
I mainly use them for cycling and driving (long drives, not every time I get in a car).
But once they’re in, I basically forget about them.
Also annoying to clean, and people sometimes forget them and they get nasty infections of life acanthomoeba keratitis
I used to wear extended wear soft contacts, but I’m a trash goblin and I’d leave them in for a month at a time, only cleaning them by vigorously squirting my eyes with saline when they would bother me.
I cut that shit out years ago when one pretty much glued itself to my eye and I spent an hour aggressively pinching my eye to extract it.
I never got good at putting them in/taking them out. I’m jealous of people in instructional videos that can just pop them in/out in seconds.
Your brother is trolling you. I’ve been wearing contacts for over two decades now; you definitely feel them. After 6-8 hours they become unbearably irritating and I have to go back to glasses for the rest of the day.
I can’t wear contacts because apparently you can’t make them in my prescription, but I did have some for a Halloween costume and those things felt really weird. I can’t imagine putting up with them being in your eye all day.
I thought there was shady admin stuff going on in Risa and that’s why this community exists?
This is a new Risa which is totally different from old Risa. Honestly the worst part of Federation is multiple similar community names.
Point is … it’s Risa all the way down.
The other way around: there’s a sexist and transphobic mod/admin/someone of “power” on Lemmy.world
Any posts about that??
