# Advice on contact lenses **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [November 30, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320 "2004-11-30T13:30:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/1 "2004-11-30T13:30:51Z")
I recently got a pair of ProClear lenses and over the past few weeks it’s become increasingly hard to get the left one in my eye without blinking it out, amidst much swearing and raging at the gods (took me 20 min. the other day to get the left one in). I cannot cannot cannot get the little f\*\*cker against my eyeball sufficiently before the big bad eyelid comes crashing down and knocks it into oblivion. Oblivion being my left cheek, of course. Today I just had to throw my glasses on or I would have been late for work. I’d just like to know if a.) anyone else has or has had this problem of chronic blink-out and b.) if anyone knows of a lens with a better track record for this kind of thing. I’m willing to accept if it’s me and I just have a rebelling eyelid, but I’ve worn lenses for years and never had this problem. And it’s always the left lens! :mad: Any suggestions would be soo appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/838e76/32.png) [@One\_And\_Only\_Wanderers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/One_And_Only_Wanderers)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/2 "2004-11-30T13:38:19Z")
I have similar problems as the lenses age. Making sure they are moist seems to help, before putting it on my eye i squeeze a drop or two of the saline solution on the inside of the lens. This seems to help. YMMV ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/3 "2004-11-30T14:03:38Z")
Yeah a friend showed me that trick a while back- I actually wondered whether it wasn’t part of the problem (the drop of solution) so I tried putting it in both “wet” and “dry.” Neither way keeps it in mah damn eye. Thanks, though. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/4 "2004-11-30T14:49:04Z")
When I was wearing them regularly, I’d go through periods where I could throw both lenses in my eyes with no problem and then go through periods where one of my lenses just would. not. stay. in! It drove me crazy when a formerly perfectly well-behaved lens would pop out every time I tried to set it. ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/5 "2004-11-30T17:40:49Z")
This may not work for you; I wore hard contacts for several years before the soft contacts came out & I still insert contacts the old way. (The old way = holding your upper & lower eyelids open with your fingers while you place the contact directly onto your iris. ) Anyway, when I occasionally have problems with a contact doing this, I just grab the top lid and pop it out and down over my eye (holding onto the eyelashes), and then use the lid to gently press/rub the contact down into place. Generally works like a charm, unless there’s something wrong with the contact. Have you checked for protein spots, tiny cracks/chips, etc.? Anything like that will cause me problems in getting contacts to stay in. ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/6 "2004-11-30T18:14:59Z")
> [@redtail23](#): > > (The old way = holding your upper & lower eyelids open with your fingers while you place the contact directly onto your iris. ) Ha- the old way? That’s the only way I know! 🙂 To answer your question, yeah, I’ve examined the lens and (to the naked eye anyway) it seems fine. But I am going to give your technique a try tomorrow- so thanks. FYI- called my eye place over lunch, and they mentioned that the doc changed the **curvature** of the lens on my last checkup, and that they’ll put me back to the old curvature and see if that’s the problem. Was like, uh, ok, thanks. (Why you changey if makey worsey??) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/7 "2004-11-30T18:19:04Z")
You’ve probably checked, but is it possible the dern thing’s inside out? ---
**Author:** ![redtail23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@redtail23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/redtail23)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/8 "2004-11-30T18:30:57Z")
> [@Moody Bastard](#): > > Ha- the old way? That’s the only way I know! 🙂 Wow, everyone else I know does some weird one-handed, roll-up-your-eye and stick-it-to-the-bottom-white-part then try-to-roll-your-eye-back-down-into-the-contact kinda thing. Freaky, man! 😛 > [@](#): > > FYI- called my eye place over lunch, and they mentioned that the doc changed the **curvature** of the lens on my last checkup, and that they’ll put me back to the old curvature and see if that’s the problem. Was like, uh, ok, thanks. (Why you changey if makey worsey??) :smack: D’oh! I’ve had problems before with the office ordering the wrong curvature, but I always have immediate trouble with those. _Yes, when I said I wanted the same kind as last time, including the STEEP part, that’s really what I meant! Otherwise, they fall out of my eyes! IDIOTS!!_ ---
**Author:** ![Mal\_Adroit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Mal\_Adroit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mal_Adroit)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/advice-on-contact-lenses/277320/9 "2004-11-30T20:48:42Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > You’ve probably checked, but is it possible the dern thing’s inside out? That little detail has definitely escaped me in the past! But no, it was first thing I checked on this particular misadventure. **redtail-** 😛