Dailies Contact Lenses

I wear my 2 wk disposable daily contacts for weeks at a time and forget to take them out?

can anyone tell me what if any damage I am doing to my eyes

Public Comments

1. Stop doing it! The outer layer of your eyes will slowly dry out, eventually leading to serious vision problems.
2. Well, those are made to be removed before sleep, cleaned and stored until the you need them again. It's not an emergency if you forget to take them out once in a while, but you could develop problems with your cornea if you do it often. You could see if the one day style of contacts would work for you. They come in ninety packs. You wear them once and throw them out before sleep. No cleaning, no case, no worry. :)
3. Lots of damage of course. Increasing your risk of: -dry eye -serious infections -giant papillary conjunctivitis -corneal problems (which can permanently affect your vision) including but not limited to: neovascularization, ulcers, and abrasions -having to have the lenses surgically removed from your eyes -not being able to wear contacts for a long time or possibly ever again Basically, start cleaning your lenses and throwing your two week disposables away after two weeks. If you want to wear them longer, talk to your doctor about continuous wear lenses. If you don't like caring for lenses, get dailies as the other poster said.
4. I agree with everyone on here and especially sarahlee's answer. We see this over and over and hear it over and over. "I've worn mine and the eye drs. are just trying to scare you by telling you that you shouldn't sleep in them". Yes, you are all right. We ARE trying to scare you. Wish we could have scared the 10 people under the age of 25 that I have seen in the course of almost 18 years who have ended up blind in one eye or unable to wear contacts at all and can't have lasik due to poor corneas. And the countless hundreds we have seen that have "fortunately" caught the problem early enough to get treatment. Here is the thing. There are no blood vessels on the surface of the eye. NONE..so the only oxygen the cornea gets is from the air. If it is smothered by a lens, it blocks that oxygen and suffocates the cornea. The damage can be endless. Don't play that game with your eyes. An extra 2 minutes of getting them out of your eyes every single night beats a lifetime of poor vision.