I'm having trouble with my eyes and coming to ask here as a last resort.
I am quite strongly short-sighted (-3.25 dpt on the left, -3.75 dpt on the right). I just broke my glasses a few days ago and now I have to wait at least one more week before I get new ones.
So I bought off-the-shelf contact lenses from the drugstore for the interim period, because otherwise I'm blind as a mole.
The possible options were "soft" or "hard" lenses, and "monthly" (reusable, to be thrown away after one month) or "daily" (should be used for no longer than a day). I bought the soft daily lenses at first. I've been using them for a few days now (a new pair every day, of course [actually several a day, because I had to change them so often, I thought they might be worn out already after so much fidgeting]). After that I also bought and tried a pair of soft monthly to see if that's any better. I don't notice a difference.
I have big trouble with these lenses. After putting them on, and some minutes of first adjustment, vision is sharp, but not for long.
I get one hour at most of mostly sharp vision. During that first period the feeling of that foreign object on my eye is most irritating. I get used to it after a while. But that is also the time when vision starts to become a bit blurry and smudgy every so often and I have to blink a few times or shift the lens around, to make it "stick" again, I guess. Sometimes putting some drops of saline solution in my eyes is also necessay, presumably to wash away some smudgy mucus on the outside of the lens.
I assume there's some stuff building up between the contact lens and my actual lens as well. But I don't know what to do about that. I wash my eyes with clean water before I put fresh lenses on. I take the fresh lenses directly out of the "all-in-one solution" (for cleaning and storing) in which they are packaged and put them onto my clean eye. But it seems that too much mucus builds up in my eye under the contact lens pretty soon. So after a certain period, no adjustment from outside, - shifting the lens around, blinking, dripping saline solution into the eye, - helps anymore. I have to get the lenses out, clean my eyes, clean the lenses - or take new ones.
Taking them out and cleaning them, and cleaning my eyes, and putting them back in, works for a moment. Taking new ones works for a moment longer than that.
But nothing really works for at least an hour or two without problems.
The longer I wear them, the better they seem to "stick" in place, without shifting away from the iris. But at the same time, the blurring/smudging becomes so annoying by that time, I don't even get a full minute of clear vision anymore. It seems there is just too much mucus building up over time, and drying up in place around the lenses. Applying a few drops of saline solution clears the sight somewhat for a few seconds at most.
This vision problem is really driving me insane. I need to be able to read and write on a computer screen for many hours a day. But in this condition I cannot do that.
Does anyone here have similar experiences with contact lenses and with possible remedies for such apparent mucus over-production?
Thanks in advance for any helpful tips.
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Figured it out after two days. 