I'm so excited..i'm getting contacts for the first time...any advice?

Question

i'm 15 and i'm asian. i have black hair and i'm getting brown ones. i'm so excited! is there any advice you would like to give me? it's my very first time to get them and i never tried them before! i'm getting them around this month

Answer 1

dont push it up ur eye. it hurts like h#ll

also dont drop it on dog hair or the floor.

its gonna itch.

dont sleep in them or else theyll dry up in your eye.

congrats btw.

i love my contacts.

Answer 2

OMG! thats awsome! Im geting mine 2! its this friday hopefully!

Answer 3

As much as it is humanely possible, keep with you a spare case for your contacts, a small bottle of drops, and a pair of regular glasses that you wouldn't mind being seen in public with. No matter what you do, your eyes WILL sometimes act really oddly, possibly resulting in dryness, massive tearing, discomfort, or pain (sometimes it's a combo!). There've been soo many time when my friend has had a sudden attack of contact problems, but could do nothing but shut her eyes and wait out the pain because she's too much of a little idiot to keep glasses with her because they make her face "look ugly".

Which brings me to my next point: if you can't stand your current glasses, get a new pair that you like better. Most (possibly all) optometrists recommend that you don't wear your contacts every single day, but take breaks every once in a while. When those times come, you'll want to still feel as comfortable and confident as you do in contacts (this mostly applies if you got contacts because you can't stand the glasses you have, or just the thought of wearing glasses at all)

Finally, when the doctors tell you to keep your contacts (and anything touching your contacts) as sanitary as possible, they aren't kidding. All it takes is a stray bacteria to cause an infection, or a teeny-weeny minuscule piece of hair/dirt to scratch your cornea. Soap is your friend (but beware with certain types of hand sanitizers...I've experienced my fair share un-holy stinging the last a lifetime).

Hope that helps, and good luck!