There is genuinely a thread on the old boards from about five years ago where, just for larks, someone asked what the total volume of contact lenses for all time for everyone in the world ever was. And if I IIRC correctly, it was reckoned to be a couple of swimming pools worth. (That didn’t include the packaging, though.)
I think the thing with contact lenses and the _ contact _ with the eyes factor is that I was too damn vain to get bogged down with any issues related to squeamishness. I just wanted to not have to wear glasses.
My rigid-gas permeable lenses require a rub with cleaning fluid and then a rinse & storage with another fluid. And, yup, fuck does that ever sting out you don’t rinse properly. 
Has the similar story, too, about the initial struggle with putting 'em in/taking 'em out. Sorted in a week though, innit. Although I think the back-of-my-mind knowledge of the rigmarole of the pre-bedtime prep has sort of exacerbated my pisspoor sleep habits. Hopefully wearing lenses less these days will go toward sorting that it.
Was investigating laser treatment but by the time that was financially viable, I wasn’t quite bothered enough to overcome the squeamishness of _ that _.
A couple of mates have had it done and have nothing but good stuff to say about, though. It’s just that once you get to a certain age you’re gonna prolly need reading glasses regardless so it kinda hardly seems worth it.
Any laser people on here?
/most boringist post of the new board era so far
