UK Keratoconus Self-Help and Support Association

Hello Peeps,
Aren't you all looking lovely today.

Does anyone know whether the preservative-free version of Systane which comes in little individual vials can be worn with hard lenses in?

As far as I am aware, majority of eye drops (aside from a few artificial tears drops) request the user to remove contacts. However, I had always left my lenses in when applying Systane...and have never had an issue....but that dont mean its right to do so lol

Alcon who make systane recomend that the lens be removed prior to using the drops.

1) This allows better coverage of the cornea for lubrication between it and the lens.

2) Systane dries onto the outer surface of the contact lens so causing vision to go hazy.

The active ingredients are exactly the same. The only reason they are in individual ampules is because they are preservative free. Once opened the contents of the ampule will go off.

In convenient I know, but when I do this, I do one lens at a time and the whole process takes less than 10 minutes.

No more inconvenient than a toilet break

Hhmm i don't use the preservative free ones but maybe with the amount i use i guess i should. Last time i bought systane without going online the lady did tell me not to wear my lenses when she gave it to me. I used to but have stopped because it can make your lenses blurry.

Sweet X x X

HOw do any of you folks manage to remove contacts, put stuff in eye and put contacts straight back in?

Once I've been wearing my lenses for a while, once I take them out I have to allow my eyes time to recover before trying to put them back, or I have trouble. I mean, trouble!!
And when I say a break, I mean something like an hour. I put one back in last week with only about 45 minutes rest and it wasn't too happy about it.

THey also complain if I take one out of one eye, and put the other intot he other eye with only a few minutes break, too.
How do you survive?? Or am I just unlicky to have really picky eyes??
Rosemary

Rosemary,

I think you are just unlucky, but it did take a while ergarding the comfort. It has only been the past 5 months that I have had real improvements that I'd say once a week I will notice that I am wearing lenses.

Just get a bit of a stabbing pain as if something is in my eye. 5 mins of complete eye watering and screwing up my face and it is all over again!

Far beter than this time last year when I went from average lens wear to next to nothing and like you if I took my lenses out, would have to wait an hour or so before wrestling the lens back in.

It could also be you are quite normal and I am just extremely lucky.