Removing Lenses

[paula hardman]

I push the eyelids together (left index on lower left eyelid, right index on upper left eyelid etc), the lens pops out and is caught by the finger pushing the lower eyelid. I stopped using a mirror a couple of months after getting lenses - I find my aim's better this way.

Strangely I've had a similar incident with the lens coming out when I got out of the car. Luckily it was outside my house and dark so I got a torch. I would recommend a keyring torch - I've found a lens several times because they glint when caught in the light.

[withnall]

Gareth

Did you have to go get a new lens everytime you had a chip.

[Sweet]

Gareth, i kinda thought they were made from the same material, guess touch wood that i have been lucky then and whatever i seem to drop it on is soft! LOL! Also having short nails being a nurse helps a great deal!

Paula, hhmm that's a different way of taking one out, i have never tried that one! LOL! I think there are so many ways that you just need to find one that suits you, and also most optometrists tell you a different way as well. Though i would be more inclined to listen to one who actually wears lenses but there you go!! LMAO! It is easier to teach from something you know and do yourself!

Withnall, i haven't chipped one, but would say that you would need to get a new one or indeed get it polished if you chip it. As as well as not seeing well, it is an infection risk as well as a risk in causing corneal damage. But then on all the times i've lost one and then found it in the strangest places, it goes without saying that a dam good clean is needed to reduce the infection risk as well!!

Sweet X x X

[withnall]

Will check it out when i go back to collect right lens. It is a pain that they take so long to order and receive.

It is chip on the edge of the rim but i will get it looked at.

[Sweet]

That is a pain, i am lucky in that if i order a new one it only takes a day or two. This is because they make it on site so it doesn't have to be ordered, made and then delivered to them, which obviously adds more time.

I am not sure where you are, but maybe you could look into someone who would be quicker? I don't know. But i am kinda with the idea, that if they have facilities to be able to polish it on site then it shouldn't be long to do that. The real wait is for a new one i think? Not sure, as all places are different, and coming from Wales, i'm not very up with things here in London either! LOL!

Hoping you get it sorted soon though!

Sweet X x X

[withnall]

Thanks Sweet.

I live in Ireland and there is only one optician in Cork that will even look at fitting me with contacts for KC. Tried Specsavers but they referred me to this Optician so i better not cheese him off. LOL!

I meant re-ordering but might ask my optician about the polishing. It just i do not want him to think i am a total moran by collecting a new lens and saying i might have chipped the other. Stupid , i know.

I use Boston Simplus. it is an all in one solution .

[GarethB]

My sight was so bad I could not tell if they were chipped. It was only the fact that 18 years ago when I first had lenses prior to a graft my sight changed so I needed new lenses every three weeks. Being under 18 they were all free. It was the optician that noticed that the odd one was chipped. There is a risk of corneal scaring with our lenses and a chip/sharp edge make the chances even higher. It is far safer to replace the lens if it is damaged.

I always have a towel covering the surface where I am removing my lens just icase it slips off a finger when putting the lenses in or out. Regardless of having the plunger. Only in emergencies when I have to remove a lens pronto will I forgo the cleanliness and towel routine.

When using a mirror I have to be so close to see what I am doing the lens only has a short distance to travel. The towel is if the lens falls a greater distance it lands on something soft.

[withnall]

Wow, that must have been hard having to keep changing lenses. I am being monitored every month and after this month it will go to every two months but so far it is mainly the left eye that is main problem. Right eye has only started.

[GarethB]

I think myself lucky that it is only the past month the right lens has started to cause problems again not sitting correctly. Optom is concerned and with my past history, they want to see if it settles again over the next three months, so right lens is wearing as and when it is comfortable. Heavily relient on the left eye now which has been stable for 12 months.

Unfortunatly fitting a lens on a grafted eye is not always easy. Having a sucker really does help prevent chipping a lens, especially if you have hard nails.