I can't get my contacts in?

Question

I have contacts, but i can't get them in. It just doesn't stick to my eyeball. Do you have any tips that would help me so that the contact will stick to my eyeball?

Answer 1

This used to drive me crazy! There would be a bubble of air between the lens and my eye, and it would make the lens fall off immediately. The eye doctor showed me a method that works for me. Check out this little animation... partway down the page on the right, where it says "Inserting contacts is easy, see animation."

http://www.allaboutvision.com/faq/contac... You gently pull down your bottom lid, and look up. Then place the lense below the iris (colored part) of the eye. Let go and your lower lid will push it into place.

Answer 2

I would first ask you if you were fitted for these contacts by a professional optomologist.  Everybody has a different curvature to their eyeball.  If you were not fitted properly, the contact will not float on your eyeball as intended.  Notice I used the word float.  Your contact should not stick to your eye.  It should float above your retina opening and iris.  Use only a drop or two of saline solution when you are ready to apply the contact.  Make sure you have the contact turned right side out because there is a wrong side and a right side.  When you stare at the right side of the contact on your finger, it should form a bowl effect with the top ridge pointing up.  If it's the wrong side, the bowl effect will happen, but the top ridge will flare outward causing a ridge.  It will make the contact rub against the underside of your eyelid and be very uncomfortable.  It also will not focus as well and might not float correctly or slip off your focus area.  Some will do the taco test.  If you fold the contact slightly in with both fingers, the right way will form a taco shape.  The wrong way will fight making a taco because the edges will flare out.

Open your eyelids with your other hand using your index finger to hold back the top and your thumb holding the bottom.  So wide that you see lots of white above the iris and below.  Stare into the contact setting the contact on your focus area.  Try not to flinch or pull your index finger back too quickly.  The contact needs to float its liquid surface with your liquid surface over the pupil opening.  Your pupil is not a solid black surface.  It's dark because it's an opening to your eye filled with fluid.

If you still have trouble with practicing this method, maybe you should go back to your eye doctor and make sure the curvature of your eye has not changed.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Sometimes I can't get them in either. What I do is: Try putting more contact solution on the contact and shaking it off a bit so it isn't soaking. Then, put it your fingertip and putting right on your eye or however your doctor told you. Hold the contact for a couple seconds in place. If that doesn't work, then maybe you should make an app. with your doctor and use glasses until the app.. Hope this works!