I started out wearing the hard contact lenses (those are called rigid lenses? we just call'em hard lenses in Japan
) My doc recommended that I wear those instead of soft lenses since I had allergies and allergens tend to stick to the soft lenses (I don't have allergies anymore since I've moved to Canada, yay!)
I couldn't handle taking them off though. You have to do this weird manuevering pulling the edge of your eye and squinting to pop out the lense. I could never master it so I had to use this suction device all the time but it wasn't recommended that I use that often. Plus, they were expensive. They last for a year or so but once you lose it, it's gone! Disposable lenses I don't mind losing, soft lenses don't come off all that easily anyways.