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    Default Dry eyelid and/or contacts

    Do any of you, who wear contacts, find that one, or both, eyes get dry throughout the day, and the contact ends up sticking to the inside of your eyelid? Basically what happens, is when I blink, you see the contact stick to my lid, then slowly drop down. Even when I take the contact out, my eye still feels dry. Do you think this is a problem w/the contact or my eye? I'm kind of worried, since all of my contacts do this, and it's not like I'm wearing them over the amount of time reccommended. They supposedly last for a year, and I'm on my 5th month. I've searched the web, and can find no info.

    Also, I do use the visine for contacts drops, but they only work temporarily...as in 1 second...I think it's because they are for the outside of the contact, but the dryness is occurring on the inside of my upper lid.

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    You're not sleeping in them, are you? NEVER sleep in contacts, even the kind that says it's okay to do that. It has exactly the effect you described.

    Also, when you put them in, put a drop of solution inside the contact before putting it in your eye. I always did that and they never dried out on me the way they did for my friends who didn't do that.

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    Default Re: Dry eyelid and/or contacts

    I've been wearing contacts for 22 years so I think I have a little bit of experience. Medications can make your eyes drier than normal. Are you on any cold or allergy meds? Also, the dry winter air (if you are in the Northern Hemisphere) can dry your eyes and contacts out as well. If you do a lot of computer work, you may not be blinking enough and spreading your tears around to keep your eyes/lenses lubricated. You can use plain saline drops to keep things moist. If you are having eye discharge, eye pain or visual changes, get thee to an eye doctor ASAP

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    Default Re: Dry eyelid and/or contacts

    i never sleep in my contacts
    perhaps it is the computer work...i am on the computer for at least 6 hours per day, if not more

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