How To Train Yourself To Put In Contacts WITHOUT BLINKING OR MOVING EYE!?

Question

I'm 13 (turn 14 in two weeks) and I just got contacts two days ago. I was able to get one in but only because she put the numbing solution in my eye. Same thing with taking them out. After that, I haven't even gotten close to it. I've tried looking up and putting them in, and even putting them on top of my closed eye and opening my eye really fast to make them drop in but I still can't get it. Is there 1) a way to train my eye so that I don't blink or move my eyeball? and 2) an easy way that I can put them in. I start camp next week and I want to have the hang of it by the birthday. My dad paid about $70 something dollars for my contacts (astigmatism in my right eye) and their only a trial pair. I need help!!!!

Answer 1

I don't think you can train your eyes to not move, it takes some patience and practice. I pull the skin up above my eye & pull down the skin underneath it so that there is more surface available on your eyeball. If you stand in front of a mirror you can look straight ahead and still see what you're doing--for the moving your eyeball part. It gets easier the more you do it. Just be patient and try not to get frustrated abt it. It took me forever in the beginning and now I don't even think about the process.

Good luck, hope this helps a little

Answer 2

When i first started wearing lenses i had the same problem too. What i did then and still do now is to use a big mirror

(1) put the lens on a finger and place a liberal set of solution into the lens so that it covers the lens and is like a meniscus

(2) look up

(2) pull the lower lid down

(3) place the lens into the eye at a point below the pupil

(4) use the eyelid and gradually slip the lens over the cornea

(5) slowly close both lids and let the pressure of the lids force out the excess liquid in the contact. The eyelid pressure and the fact that the eyes closed work to get the eye aclimatized to the lens and creates a natural suction for the contact and your eye

For the first couple of times the eye blinks furiously and kicks it out but continue doing the steps over and over again. After about 3 minutes or so the brain engages and accommodates the uncomfortable feeling since we start to realise that it is you putting something in your eye.

After a week it gets better

I hope that works for you, i still have to do that every day, My eyes have become accustomed to the softer contact lenses. I am also astigmatic, but after a time it goes in easier.