Cleaning contacts

[onetwoothreee]

I still have to clean mine even though they're the day/night contacts you leave in, and have gone through any number of different solutions. Some of them were terrible and made the contacts cloudy or dry out faster (even the more expensive ones). I can't remember which ones right now.

My favorite to date is Clear Care, where you have to let it sit and bubble for 6 hours. It looks like this:





If you put them back in before then, it feels like you washed your eyes in hot sauce! It's hydrogen peroxide activated by some little disk. I need to buy a new bottle of plain saline or cleaner as a backup pretty soon.

 

[T-Bone]

Ha ha, that's the first time I've seen contact lens care discussed. And it's something I've been doing for thirty years.

I use the same hydrogen peroxide system. However, I mostly use regular drug store hydrogen peroxide instead of the expensive solution. Then I put a few drops of fresh saline on the lenses before i put them in.

You are so right - if the hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) isn't fully converted to H2O overnight by the platinum catalyst disk it feels like tabasco sauce in your eyes.

 

[Audios]

Clear care is the absolute best. It makes my 2 week lenses last at least twice as long, and Ive never had pain or discomfort after putting them in like the regular salines. I keep a regular bottle around for quick cleaning, plus the little travel salines in the car just in case, but the extra cost for clear care is 100% worth it, just for the longer contact interval alone.

 

[onetwoothreee]

I bought some plain saline. It works fine for rinsing.

 

[93cruiser]

im 44, eyes are going. I still tested 20/20 a few months ago as a routine work check, but I'm going for a more in depth test in the near future. If I come up 20/20, I guess my eyes were so much better than 20/20 prior, to me they are bad now. I'm not going to even consider contacts, just glasses. Contacts seem to be a pain.

Why contacts over glasses? Looks alone? Or are glasses uncomfortable when needed all day/night? I do see indents/red marks on some people when they remove their glasses, but not everyone.

 

[Carmudgeon]

Was never a big fan of Clear Care. Didn't find it to be any more effective for my lenses, and you don't know pain unless you've mistakenly tried to put on lenses from a solution that hasn't been completely neutralized.

Switched to Opti-Free and was much happier.

Even happier when a new doctor prescribed one-day disposables. Just need a bit of saline rinse on hand and that's it. A fresh pair every time.

Probably would have done Lasik earlier in life, but I think that window has closed.

 

[AVB]

I have been thinking about trying ultrasonic cleaning. I read that it can damage soft contacts though.