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I wear soft contacts, the 2-week disposable kind. Honestly, I've only slept in mine once over night and it wasn't great. My eyes were so dry and red the next day, I had to wear glasses for the rest of that day. Even if I nap in them for a couple of hours, my eyes get pretty dry. Personally, I wouldn't recommend sleeping in soft contacts.
Sleeping in soft contacts is a HUGE NO. FI, as well as my college roommate, used to do this all the time. They both got pink eye constantly and didn't put two and two together. They both later found out that sleeping in their contacts causes conjunctivitis. GROSS.
FI used to sleep with his contacts in every night and now he has eye problems because of it.
It only takes two seconds to take them out...
I've worn soft contacts for years, and to be honest, even though this is, I'm sure, BAD TO DO, I sleep in mine all the time. I rarely take them out.
So yeah. :p
Mine now are actually are ones for astigmatism, so they're almost like a combo between hard/soft, and they're not as comfortable to sleep in as the for real soft ones. So, you should be fine.
(Even though nobody's supposed to sleep in contacts. lol)
I am a big huge grump if I sleep with my contacts in. They get really dry and itchy and my eyes burn, so it's not a good way for me to start the day.
I use the Accuvue Oasis kind, and I've never had a problem sleeping in my lenses. I don't do it on a regular basis, but maybe once or twice a month I'll fall asleep before taking out my lenses. I just use the Bausch and Lomb contact rewetting drops and they feel good as new. :)
I wear soft contacts, and wouldn't recommend sleeping in them. My brother used to sleep in his all the time, and the morning of his wedding woke up with an eye infection. I've never worn hard contacts, so not sure how they compare, but I really like my soft contacts, just gotta be good about taking them out before bed.
I have been wearing soft contact lenses for a number of years now. Like others have said sleeping in contact lenses is a really bad idea. I just started using the daily contact lenses and I highly recommend it. That way you do not have to worry about keeping the same contact lenses for two weeks or more. Also my eyes were sensitve to the weeklys and I hated them. I got an ulcer in my eye once and let me tell you that was not fun!
Did you know that there are 4 Bee optometrists?!
As one of them, I'll chime and and agree with most of the comments here- sleeping in your contact lenses greatly increases your chances of getting a sight-threatening (and ugly!) eye infection.
I fit many of my patients who are used to sleeping in their contacts in daily disposable lenses (you wear them once and throw them away). The convenience of not needing cleaning supplies and lens cases helps them to break the cycle of sleeping in their contacts... you could ask your optometrist if these might work for you.
Good luck!
I wear soft contacts every day (acuvue 2). Don't sleep in them! There are lots of things that can go wrong, but mostly it is just terrible to wake up with dry/irritated eyes.
@july112010- I got a corneal ulcer too! This was back when I was in college, and I thought it was just some irritation or pink eye, but my eye got sooo big like quasimodo and it was totally painful. I had to go to the ER at 3 am. Wearing contacts 24/7 doesn't allow enough oxygen to get into your eye.
I used to sleep in my contacts all the time in college and never really had a problem. No eye infections, nothing. I'd take them out and rinse them if they felt dry, but *shrug* it wasn't a big deal. HOWEVER, I can't sleep in my contacts anymore. It may be because I've changed brands, but now sleeping in my contacts makes my eyes SO dry and red. Even taking a nap in my contacts can be really irritating now.
I'll agree that your eye doctor knows best when they rec. not sleeping in them, but it's different for everyone. Some don't have any trouble at all and some can't take it.
DON'T SLEEP IN THEM UNLESS YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO! You are told this for a reason and not because your optometrist is trying to make your life a pain.
That aside, I know the Acuvue Oasys over here are liscenced for you to either wear as a fortnightly replacement or sleep in them for one week. I've worn monthly replacement soft contact lenses for 10 years, occasionally I've accidentally fallen asleep in there and I wake up with really dry eyes that are a bit red. I just leave them out for a few days so my eyes recover and then start up wearing again.
@jacqi they are so horrible! I didnt get a swollen eye but I caught it very early. I my eye felt like something was scratching it and I noticed a tiny white spot, turns out it was an ucler. I am really clean about everything with my contacts, but I do not think keeping on pair of contacts for weeks is a good thing. I totally prefer daily.
My FI sleeps in his soft contacts for months - changes them and does the same thing over again and has NEVER had any eye problems! (He has been doing this for 8 years)
I wear the Night and Days, which I think they renamed to something but I can't think of what it is right now! You can wear them at night but they do dry out a bit and when I did wear them at night I used to have to put drops in at night. Honestly, I'm getting kind of sick of them because my eyes have become extremely easy to irritate, like a tiny piece of dust makes my contacts go insane! I used to be really good with soft contacts though and I think they would probably be better than the hard ones since they breathe more.
I have Acuvue soft lenses as well, although my left eye one is the astigmatism kind, so a little harder. I love them because my old lenses were terrible for working around the barn - dust would get in my eyes, and I wouldn't be able to open them anymore!
I can sleep in them for one night at a time, and do it maybe once every four months, but I really wouldn't recommend sleeping in any contact lenses. Even though you might not see the negative consequences right away, they're there!
Even the soft lenses that were "made" for sleeping in cause problems. I know they took a few different ones off the market because of long term problems.
I wore soft contacts for 20 years, and I hated sleeping in them. My eyes always felt irritated and dry the next day even with drops. They also looked red. It's also not good to sleep in them. I guess you can listen to all the anecdotal evidence, but I would definitely heed the doctors' opinions more. It only takes a few seconds to take them out.
i wear the day to night contacts that you are supposed to wear for 30 days and then change. i haven't really had any trouble with them so far. i sleep in them all the time and if they get dry, i put a couple drops in when i wake up.
when i had the non day to night i never slept in them, even taking a nap in them caused a lot of irritation.
I hate falling asleep with my contacts in and I try to never do it. I wake up and my eyes are DRY and RED. No way. I did it a bit too much in college and ended up with a pretty painful infection, blegh. I like Tiramasu's idea of daily lenses, I considered it but they were a little pricey, but I bet they'd be worth it.
Oh man, confession time. I sleep in mine EVERY NIGHT! I have the two week disposable, you know the ones youre supposed to take out every night and throw away after two weeks. I sleep with them in for around three weeks, take them out for a night and throw them away. I once confessed to my optomitrist and she said my eyes looked great but she would advise against it anyway.
Ive had one eye problem in my 7 years of sleeping with them. It was a scratch on my eye that I dont think was caused by my contact, but i figured Id mention it just in case.
I was another person who slept in there soft contact lenses all through college and frequently now-a-days especially when I nap. If you would of asked this question a couple weeks ago I would of send that "I've never had any eye problems" from sleeping in my contacts. I had an optometrist appt a week ago and was told I have scarring on my eye and if it wasnt located towards the top of my eye it would be interferring w/ my site and is irreversable!!! I think they called it something else than scarring but thats the simple way they explained it to me. And I've had years of optometrist appts where this has never been brought up. Doc said its from sleeping in contacts and also not throwing out my contacts every month as directed too --- I usually try to go a couple months before throwing them out.
to make it short: you may get permanent eye problems from wearing them at night that you cannot notice til its too late!!! Cuz my eyes were never sore or red from wearing them at night, and now my eyes are scarred.
I wish someone had shared this w/ me sooner.
I have fallen asleep several times forgetting to take out my contacts. When I wake up my eyes are very dry, but I just take the contacts out for a few minutes and put them in solution and then I am fine.
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Okay, so I finally went to the eye doc to inquire about switching to soft contact lenses. I currently wear rigid gas permeable lenses (RPG) and have for 15 years. I like pretty much everything about RGPs except for the discomfort and pain that that can be pretty common with these kinds of lenses, especially when something gets in my eye. She gave me a pair of Accuvue 2 weeks soft lenses to try out for a few days.
The good news is that my doc said I can wear soft lenses just on my wedding day if I want to avoid the possibility of anything seriously irritating my eye with my RGPs. My debate is whether to make a permanent switch to soft lenses. One thing I like about my RGPs is that I sleep in them a lot (even though I know that's a big no-no) and have never had any problems from doing that. I'm afraid I won't be able to do that with soft lenses. My doc said she wouldn't even want to give me the type of lenses that are made for overnight use because she doesn't like them.
So do any of you often sleep in your soft lenses even though you're technically not supposed to? If so, how do they feel the next morning...do you just put some eye drops in and they're fine again? Any information is appreciated!