Mobile Lenses

[Elvenmunky]

Right i just got these hard lenses about a week ago but are very mobile and have to reach inside of my eye to put them back, they move around 1-2 times a day and can be very irritating. Is this normal? and also i cannot read such things as subtitles and small text...is that normal? Thanks

[GarethB]

Hi and welcome to the forum.

To help answer you question, I have a few of my own to help with a response.

How long have you had the lenses?

When the lenses do move what are you doing at the time?

What do your eyes feel like prior to the lenses moving?

Strange questions I know, but if my eyes watertoo much, the lens can float off from where it should be. Rigid Gas Permeable (RGP) contact lenses are meant to move a bit to help tear flow around and under the lens so the corenea does not dry out or suffer oxygen starvation. Gasses move better through things that are damp rather than dry.

During the initial acclimatisation period to the lenses they do move more as you get used to them. In most cases it gets better, but worth keeping a note of so that you can discuss it with the optom at your next visit and they can then check everything lens and eye wise is fine.

Hope this helps.

Regards

Gareth

[Andrew MacLean]

Elvenmunky

Welcome to the forum.

Gareth is, of course, right and I really have nothing to add to what he says, just to add my welcome to the one he already extended.

All the best with your new lenses.

Andrew

[Elvenmunky]

Hey thanks for the replies!!! very fast.
Yeh erm couple of hours after i made this topic my right lens actually fell out on the way home university. but its ok because i rang the optician and he said not to worry about it because my eyes abnormally tear a lot. yeh it seems as though my lens moves randomly or i think when my brain thinks as though somethings in my eyes.