Wearing daily contacts for 2 days reddit

Can you? Sure. But should you? It’s up to you whether or not you want to take any risks. A daily disposable contact lens is designed to be thrown away after one day of use. There is always the risk for infection, ulcers, blindness, etc. if contact lenses are not worn as prescribed. The chance is probably slim with wearing a daily lens for an extra day but you don’t want to be in that small percentage of people who end up with bad luck. It may be a better idea to wear glasses on the last day of your trip or you can try asking for a trial pair from your optometrist. Hope that helps!

Do you have a pair of glasses that you could wear for a could days while waiting for the contacts to arrive?

If you are a contact lens wearer and don't see well enough without contact lenses to get by without them then you should absolutely have a pair of glasses as a backup. If you don't have glasses, I suggest looking into getting a backup pair. And it's a good idea to give your eyes a break from contact lenses every so often also.

It's definitely not recommended to reuse daily disposable contact lenses. The risk of infection increases. They're not meant to be reused or cleaned. I would definitely try to get by without reusing contact lenses.

Used to have monthlies but didn't wear them everyday so stopped my subscription. Currently having a trial for dailies and I have astigmatism in my right eye, but I worked out the cost overall won't be much cheaper than monthlies.

Still have my contact lenses solution which I used to clean and store them, as well as the cases. I'm aware that dailies are thinner, less durable than monthlies, but if I wear them one day, clean them after taking them out at night, store them in solution, and wear them again for 1 day a few days later, is there any real risk to my eye health?

From what I've read, the main risk is a broken lens in the eye which is apparently very painful but are dailies that fragile over 2 days?

I completely disagree with the prevailing opinion here. You usually hear horror stories of people who got some serious infection from reusing daily contacts, but that is just selection bias, because you know what you also hear off people getting serious eye infections from monthlies and bi-weeklies too. People always tell stories about how they got this terrible eye infection and lost and eye or needed a corneal transplant e.t.c What they never say, is how they sleep in their contacts, didn't soak and disinfect their contacts when it was exposed to unsanitary conditions, don't wash or disinfect hands before putting in and taking contacts out, persist in wearing contacts even when their eyes were obviously irritated. I mean obviously dailies are thinner and will not last as long as monthly's but they're more comfortable and with proper care can be reused a few times, I personally use my dailies for about 3-4 days. And I've been doing that for 5 years now, my sister has been doing it even longer. Contact care is simple, but it isn't easy. And a lot of people are not willing to put in the care, and blame poor eye hygiene on reusing contacts. Now if you can't be bothered to do all the things necessary to take care of your contacts and your eyes, daily's are a fantastic option, you pop open the case wear them for the day and toss them at night. Also never sleep in your contacts that seems to be the biggest cause of eye infections from contacts regardless of if they are dailies or monthlies. But people always leave the fact they do this out of their stories of woe

TLDR: daily contacts don't have anything programmed into them that causes them to melt after single use, so basically with good eye and contact care you can reuse dailies. Trust me if your dailies are dried out you'll know, the problem is that people push through obvious eye discomfort for whatever reason. Nobody gets the serious cases of eye infection you keep hearing in these horror stories from simply reusing contacts, they're not telling the whole story.

Which is healthier? Wearing two-week lenses for the recommended two weeks, or wearing daily lenses for two days? I'm specifically looking at Acuvue Oasys 2-week versus Acuvue Oasys 1-Day lenses. I know the two-week lenses are marginally thicker and more durable (although the Acuvue Oasys 1-day lenses are still pretty thick and durable). But would it be better to have a fresh pair of lenses every two days, even if it's beyond the recommended wear time? I only wear contacts for about 11-12 hours a day, so from the safety margin standpoint, if they can claim that they're wearable for a full day, around 24 hours across two days wouldn't be too bad, would it?

I find the 1-day lenses much more comfortable, even across two days (which I've only tried a couple of times, usually I just toss them after a day). The 2-week lenses start to get dry and uncomfortable for me even after just a week.

To clarify, when I'm talking about two-day wear with the dailies, I'm referring to taking them out at night and storing them in saline before wearing it for another day.

Thanks so much for any insights.

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