Hhmm yes i can imagine! I think it is whatever works best i guess, as i'm not left handed but hold it in that hand as it is easier. Or maybe it is because it is hard to hold your right eyelids open with your left hand!
Oh it's dam confusing just having to try to think what i do! LOL!!
Sweet X x X
?FAQ on lens insertion and solutions
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rosemary johnson
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methods for inserting piggybacking combinations:
1. as previously mentioned: put in soft lens as normal for soft lens, then forget about it and put in hard lens (corneal or scleral) in normal manner as if soft lens weren't there.
2. since above doesn't work for me as soft lens doesn't stay put without hard one on top: clean and wet hard lens and rinse with saline, get out soft lens and place inside hard lens, put blob of Celluvisc inside combination (or fill hard lens with saline, if this works, and soft lens doesn't flaot about in it too much), insert hard lens as if it were the only one there.
TO remove piggybacking combination:
1. remove hard lens in normal way
2. remove soft lens from position stuck on inside of hard lens and put them both away in normal manner.
3. if no soft lens stuckinside hard lens, check on eye lashes, cheek, towel, ironing board or whatever and retrieve soft lens from there.
4. if still can't find it - PANIC!
I hold the lens in my right hand and manipulate eyelids with my left, whichever eye I'm putting the lens in. I use sclerals and piggybacking in right eye by method 2. I'm right handed.
Taking out sclerals - I gather I'm very unusual and regarded as highly eccentric for the way I do this! When I first started, I couldn't get the left out out using my left hand for love nor money, being right handed. SO I tried taking out my left lens with right hand, which meant reaching round over the top of my head and turning my wrist back, sort of backhanded. Or like a left-handed person writing in a "hook" style.
And that seemed to be having more success than taking my right lens out by the normal method wth my right hand - so I tried doing the same "backhard" trick with my left hand to take out my right lens, and that worked. And have been doing it ever since.
TO this day - and I've been wearing sclerals for about 30 years now - I don't really know what is happened. I do what I do and the lens comes out. Or doesn't, as the case may be, and i have to try again. But talk of squeezing edge of eyelid under edge of lens is a mystery to me to this day. It made it a bit difficult to get the "do the normal things" working when I first got RGPs (without the air holes) but they started to work as normal after a few days of taking umpteen attempts.
Rosmeary
1. as previously mentioned: put in soft lens as normal for soft lens, then forget about it and put in hard lens (corneal or scleral) in normal manner as if soft lens weren't there.
2. since above doesn't work for me as soft lens doesn't stay put without hard one on top: clean and wet hard lens and rinse with saline, get out soft lens and place inside hard lens, put blob of Celluvisc inside combination (or fill hard lens with saline, if this works, and soft lens doesn't flaot about in it too much), insert hard lens as if it were the only one there.
TO remove piggybacking combination:
1. remove hard lens in normal way
2. remove soft lens from position stuck on inside of hard lens and put them both away in normal manner.
3. if no soft lens stuckinside hard lens, check on eye lashes, cheek, towel, ironing board or whatever and retrieve soft lens from there.
4. if still can't find it - PANIC!
I hold the lens in my right hand and manipulate eyelids with my left, whichever eye I'm putting the lens in. I use sclerals and piggybacking in right eye by method 2. I'm right handed.
Taking out sclerals - I gather I'm very unusual and regarded as highly eccentric for the way I do this! When I first started, I couldn't get the left out out using my left hand for love nor money, being right handed. SO I tried taking out my left lens with right hand, which meant reaching round over the top of my head and turning my wrist back, sort of backhanded. Or like a left-handed person writing in a "hook" style.
And that seemed to be having more success than taking my right lens out by the normal method wth my right hand - so I tried doing the same "backhard" trick with my left hand to take out my right lens, and that worked. And have been doing it ever since.
TO this day - and I've been wearing sclerals for about 30 years now - I don't really know what is happened. I do what I do and the lens comes out. Or doesn't, as the case may be, and i have to try again. But talk of squeezing edge of eyelid under edge of lens is a mystery to me to this day. It made it a bit difficult to get the "do the normal things" working when I first got RGPs (without the air holes) but they started to work as normal after a few days of taking umpteen attempts.
Rosmeary
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