# Monthly Contacts Wearability

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 13, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087 "2015-07-13T21:33:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bobrobs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@bobrobs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobrobs)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2015, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087/1 "2015-07-13T21:33:39Z")

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I have worn glasses for about 6 or 7 years now. Last year I decided to try out contacts. I went to have my eyes check and everything the got me setup I wore them for a week and did my check up everything was all good. Well i wasn’t wearing them on a regular basis mostly just after work for a few hours if I went out. I had misplaced my contact case after having taken them out and didn’t wear them for a while. I recently found my case and wanted to wear them for an evening out. My question is will I be safe to wear them they were monthly contacts that should have been thrown out after a month of wearing them. I never wore them for a full month. Being they have been sitting for a year now in the cleaning solution would they be safe to wear? Obviously my eye doctor will tell me no not to wear them.

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**Author:** ![lel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8797f3/32.png) [@lel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lel)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087/2 "2015-07-14T04:11:46Z")

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I tried something like that once, except they were about three months old, not a year. I could barely open my eyes for two days, they were so irritated. Never again.

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**Author:** ![Cyros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a698b9/32.png) [@Cyros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyros)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087/3 "2015-07-14T19:29:53Z")

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I wouldn’t wear contacts that were sitting for more than a week in the case. I would hate to imagine what would be floating around in that old solution.

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**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/monthly-contacts-wearability/725087/4 "2015-07-14T23:53:11Z")

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Don’t do it! While the solution starts out as sterile, it can grow all sorts of (invisible to the naked eye) nastiness over a startlingly short period of time. Remember the [fungus outbreak](http://www.webmd.com/eye-health/news/20060407/eye-fungus-contacts) that turned out to be linked to folks reusing their contact solution for close to a month?