Contacts burn?!
Question: What is it like to wear contacts
Answers: What is it like to wear contacts
Everyone reacts differently to contacts, and to the different types of contacts--they make both soft and more rigid contacts, and they make them out of all different materials. So not matter what someone shares here with you, it may not apply. It's important to find an OD that you like and trust with contacts.
So to share my experiences, I started to wear contacts a few months ago at 45 years of age. I started to play around with my eyes and actually lightly touching my eyeballs a couple of weeks before my fitting appointment to get myself used to futzing with and around the eye--this is what scares new CL wearers and often causes the initial stress with applying and removing them.
I took to soft contacts like a duck to water--never hardly have felt them, and removing and putting them in only took me a few days to master. I decided in my head that I wanted to be successful with contacts and not to have to wear glasses that much, and so I just made it happen.
I really like the new silicone hydrogel lenses, as they stay moist and comfortable for most of the day. Sometimes I can "feel" the lenses (but they don't hurt or become uncomfortable), and I then just put a drop in each eye of a good re-wetting drop (I like "Blink" brand), and within a few moments I can no longer feel them again and it usually lasts for several hours.
Soft contacts are really easy to acclimate to, particularly the new silicone hydrogel lenses that are taking over the market. And once you get used to futzing with and around the eye, taking them in and out and caring for them takes no time at all. My glasses always got my skin oil on the inside of the lenses which drove me crazy, so I think when factoring in the time spent washing my eyeglasses 2-3 times a day, that I actually now spend less time caring for the contacts on a daily basis, and they never get blurry from skin oil on the lenses...!
I really love the "natural" effect of contacts--it's as if it's my own natural vision, and is some much more "civilized" and "advanced" as far as I am concerned. And I think the vision is clearer and less distorted than with my eyeglasses as well.
You can't even notice them, and they only burn if you wear them for like 4 months before taking them out.
It's like freedom. From glasses. Your glasses won't fog up when you go inside after being outside in the cold. They won't slide off your nose. You gain fabulous peripheral vision.
You just have to get used to putting them in and taking them out every day. But after 35 years of doing it, I find it no problem at all.
If you have contacts and they burn - get them out of your eyes immediately. They can do irreparable damage to your eyes.
It's like a thin layer of clear soft skin in your eyes, but with time you get use to it and you can even forget you have them on. Don't wear them all the time because your eyesight does get worse and you can get a burning feeling which most likely means you've damaged your eyes. It's not a cure, your eyes become dependant on the contacts.