Protein remover tablets

[Sweet]

Oh help! LOL!!

Am going to try again to use these dam things, but after having such a bad time with them last time am really not sure here! I used them last summer for the first time in years, well i change my lens so often there didn't seem to be a point, but then the day after i had all the sight problems which put me on sick leave for seven months.

My optometrist assures me that it was NOTHING to do with the tablets, and i am pretty sure on that as well, but it's still a big thing to try this again! Am slightly paranoid here!!!!

Hhmmm ... ok, one tablet, one case, some saline hehe oh and my lens! LOL!!

Ok ... trying again!

Sweet X x X

[Lia Williams]

I don't use protein tablets very often either. I only use them if I think they need a good clean - say just before a check-up! Or, on close inspection (my near point is 2 inches with right eye) they don't look clean after normal cleaning. These days cleaners are a lot better than thirty years ago when I resorted to washing up liquid to give my lenses a good clean - nothing else seemed to work. Mind you in those days one was only told to change the soaking solution once a week!
Lia

[GarethB]

I use the Bauch and Lomb stuff because each lens has its own pot. Helps reduce risk of transfering infection from one eye to another.

As you know my lenses are 18 months old and I am getting on with them better than before. Religeously every week they get the protein cleaner treatment.

My lenses are actually in soak as I type.

I'm a good boy me

[Sweet]

Hehe well i don't mind about separate pots as i only have one lens! It will be interesting to see if i can see better with this lens tomorrow morning as it is quite foggy at the minute.

These tablets aren't cheap either! LOL!!

Sweet X x X

[GarethB]

Postoptics again, buy in bulk with the Systane

[John Smith]

Just remember not to keep the lens in the remover for longer than the instructions say, and make very sure that the lens is INCREDIBLY well rinsed in saline before it goes back in your eye.

When it does, bear in mind that the lens may be contaminated, and if it hurts or the eye goes red, take the lens out immediately.

But hopefully, you'll "just" end up with a nice shiny lens that gives you better vision than previously.

[GarethB]

I rinse my lens in saline after it has been in the protein remover and then use the normal lens cleaner which is rinsed in saline and then the lens is stored over night in the ocnditioning/wetting solution which is also a netraliser of the other cleaners.

A bit intensive, but does the job.

[Paul Morgan]

Oh....this is all a bit new to me. Never heard of this or been advised to do this in my 18 months of lens wear.

I wear 'soft' RGP's, can anyone spare the time to post a rundown of what this does and why you should or shouldn't do it?

[GarethB]

Paul,

I think you might have soft perms?

RGP material in the middle with a soft skirt round the edges?

Optom perhaps best to answer this, but I know the solutions I use say for RGP lenses only. Not to be used with soft lenses.

Same thing in reverse for soft lens cleaners, they are never to be used on RGP lenses.

Must be something to do with solution and lens compatibility.

No idea how you resolve that one.

On another subject, may well be down your neck of the woods Sunday 30 July at the Haynes Motor Museum for another competition. Can you recomend a good B&B or campsite near by?

[Sweet]

Ohhh dear, now i come to think on it the last lens i had which i used the protein tablets for and then had eye problems with was one with a soft edge as well. Wonder is that made a difference?

Am just hoping now that my new lens from Moorfields is not the same, as they still haven't told me what it is!

Am afraid to put the lens in today i went through the same thing you do Gareth and only left it in the protein solution for four hours. Am hoping that it is ok.

Sweet X x X