Keeping daily lenses to wear a second (or 3rd) day

[Tiggsy]

I wear lenses for sports...this means I can put a pair in for a 2hr period then chuck them.

Seems a waste so whats the problem with just keeping them in a little hard case with saline (as the old style lens wearers did?)

Was thinking I could get a few days out of each pair?

[egomeister]

They've not really built for it as they are so thin. I used to use fornightly or monthly lenses and do the same thing, but at least they were a bit more robust to start with.

[TheEnd]

I wear daily ones for weeks, maybe upto a month.
The main thing to have is proper cleaning solutions for them, and I'll change them if they get damaged or chipped.

[Tiggsy]

TheEnd said:

I wear daily ones for weeks, maybe upto a month.
The main thing to have is proper cleaning solutions for them, and I'll change them if they get damaged or chipped.

cool...thats what i'll do!

£1 a week instead of a day!

[Chainguy]

It's great until it goes wrong. An old work colleague of mine did this, and despite being carefull still managed to get an eye infection which was traced back to his contacts. It was a pretty nasty infection to boot

[TheEnd]

That's why you want proper disinfectants, the type used each night for monthly lenses.
The only difference between them is that dailies are a lot thinner and get damaged more easily. Dailies obviously don't need to worry about cleaning, as they get binned each time.

Saline is no good, that just washes them, but a peroxide overnight solution will be fine.

I've even had a bad eye infection once, and I was off work for about 6 months with it whilst the doctor threw darts at possible diagnoses, but that was mainly due to working in dusty environments that would give me sore eyes about once a month.

I'm now well away from dust, and not even a mild tired eye for a couple of years on disinfected dailies changed when they become uncomfortable.