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I imagine it's the same for all types of contacts, but if it's not then I'm on about daily disposables..
How do you check if the lens is the right way round (like, not inside out) before you put it in?
I got told to kinda put it in the crease of my hand and if it sticks together when you bend it, it's the right way round. Does that make any sense?
But today my lens stuck together both ways round, so I had to make a wild guess.
Just wondered if there were any other ways of checking, cos that one seems pretty unreliable for me.
How do you check if the lens is the right way round (like, not inside out) before you put it in?
I got told to kinda put it in the crease of my hand and if it sticks together when you bend it, it's the right way round. Does that make any sense?
But today my lens stuck together both ways round, so I had to make a wild guess.
Just wondered if there were any other ways of checking, cos that one seems pretty unreliable for me.
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though another way is put the lense onto your finger hold it up so its level with your eye, if it appears perfectly round its the right way around. - thats really hard to explain, but try it and you'll see what i mean.
Because you hold them close up to your eye! Contact lens wearers arent completely blind.
Diamond Geezer has got the right idea - that's how I was taught. Anyway, if you put them in the other way they sting like crazy, so you'll know that way too.
The one my optician said was the cup and saucer, one way round looks like a cup, t'other like a saucer. Its the cup you want. Generally it hurts and you can't see as well, and if not then it don't matter.
Yeah see I've wondered a couple of times if this is what I've done.
I was told that once I've had the lens in my eye, I can't take it out, rinse it and put it back in (with them being daily disposables), so that's why I want to be getting it right rather than taking a guess and ruining a lens!
Surprised about the not being able to rinse it or anything. I would have thought that you could rinse it with saline at least. I shall ask at work tomorrow (I work in Specsavers)