SilverVeil
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I recently got fitted for my first pair of extended wear contct lenses.
These are the hard contacts that you can wear overnight for a few days and them clean them every week or so.
I wore mine for the first 4 days, taking them out at night to clean them with comfort solution ( suggested by my eye doctor ) and then putting them back in my eye. After the 5th day, I tried to remove them to clean and soak them overnight.
After trying for over 1/2 hour to get the lens out of my eye, I became convinced that the contact had become lodged up under my eyelid and there was no way it was coming out. It was pretty well stuck in there. So, I call my doctor, because by this time, I could not see out of that eye, and I was tearing so bad I could not stop. My doc said ... " Go to the E/R and get it removed, do not dig in your eye anymore. " ( I was following ALL the instructions I had been given, and there was a problem, a big problem. )
The contact in my right eye was too big. It was not allowing enough oxygen to get to my eye. The left one, for some reason was fine. Just the right one.
The contact suffocated my eye, causing it to swell and become drier than it is supposed to be. While at the E/R they numbed my eye so I could not feel anything in it. And an intern who was trying to remove the lens accidently scratched my cornea while trying to remove the stuck lens.
I was in hell for about 2 weeks. Patch over my eye cut off my side vision, I could not drive, I was in constant pain, and my eye " weeped " making my nose run till it was chapped from all the irritation of blowing my nose every minute.
If the contact had not become stuck, I would have lost my eye. I was told to expect some discomfort at times as I adjusted to having something in my eye that was new, so I did not worry those 1st 4 days it felt funny.
My doctor was not aware that no one showed me how to put them in and remove them. I was going on a wing and a prayer. This was a mistake by his office workers who are supposed to help you do it a few times in the office before you leave, to make sure you are doing it right.
Anyway ..... after the E/R visit I went to my eye doctor. And I wanted to pass along his advice to ya'll.
1) Even though they are extended wear, you have to build up time to adjust to something new like this. So put them in for 2-4 hours on the 1st day to the 3rd day of wearing them. Then everynight, even if it is with you fingers and comfort solution, take them out, and rub them between your thumb and forfinger to clean any thing that might br causing this problem. After the 3rd day ... work your way up to 6-8 hours. And so on and so forth.
2) DO NOT leave that office without someone teaching you how to put them in, and take them out easily.
3) Go back and see your doctor within two weeks for a followup visit and check up. Sooner if you are having ANY trouble with the contacts.
All this sounds so simple. But as I have worn glasses for most of my life, I had no idea how complicated contacts could be.
I was lucky. One more day of wearing the lens on my right eye, and I would have suffered permanent damage to my vision.
You only have 2 eyes. Take extra special care of them.
( My eye doctor has since adjusted the size of the lens for that eye, and I can now wear the contacts with no problems. )
These are the hard contacts that you can wear overnight for a few days and them clean them every week or so.
I wore mine for the first 4 days, taking them out at night to clean them with comfort solution ( suggested by my eye doctor ) and then putting them back in my eye. After the 5th day, I tried to remove them to clean and soak them overnight.
After trying for over 1/2 hour to get the lens out of my eye, I became convinced that the contact had become lodged up under my eyelid and there was no way it was coming out. It was pretty well stuck in there. So, I call my doctor, because by this time, I could not see out of that eye, and I was tearing so bad I could not stop. My doc said ... " Go to the E/R and get it removed, do not dig in your eye anymore. " ( I was following ALL the instructions I had been given, and there was a problem, a big problem. )
The contact in my right eye was too big. It was not allowing enough oxygen to get to my eye. The left one, for some reason was fine. Just the right one.
The contact suffocated my eye, causing it to swell and become drier than it is supposed to be. While at the E/R they numbed my eye so I could not feel anything in it. And an intern who was trying to remove the lens accidently scratched my cornea while trying to remove the stuck lens.
I was in hell for about 2 weeks. Patch over my eye cut off my side vision, I could not drive, I was in constant pain, and my eye " weeped " making my nose run till it was chapped from all the irritation of blowing my nose every minute.
If the contact had not become stuck, I would have lost my eye. I was told to expect some discomfort at times as I adjusted to having something in my eye that was new, so I did not worry those 1st 4 days it felt funny.
My doctor was not aware that no one showed me how to put them in and remove them. I was going on a wing and a prayer. This was a mistake by his office workers who are supposed to help you do it a few times in the office before you leave, to make sure you are doing it right.
Anyway ..... after the E/R visit I went to my eye doctor. And I wanted to pass along his advice to ya'll.
1) Even though they are extended wear, you have to build up time to adjust to something new like this. So put them in for 2-4 hours on the 1st day to the 3rd day of wearing them. Then everynight, even if it is with you fingers and comfort solution, take them out, and rub them between your thumb and forfinger to clean any thing that might br causing this problem. After the 3rd day ... work your way up to 6-8 hours. And so on and so forth.
2) DO NOT leave that office without someone teaching you how to put them in, and take them out easily.
3) Go back and see your doctor within two weeks for a followup visit and check up. Sooner if you are having ANY trouble with the contacts.
All this sounds so simple. But as I have worn glasses for most of my life, I had no idea how complicated contacts could be.
I was lucky. One more day of wearing the lens on my right eye, and I would have suffered permanent damage to my vision.
You only have 2 eyes. Take extra special care of them.
( My eye doctor has since adjusted the size of the lens for that eye, and I can now wear the contacts with no problems. )
