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Contact lenses - different lenses
Having had problems (dry, sore eyes) with the normal monthly lenses, I tried a suggestion from a couple of people here and tried a different kind of monthly lens - the ones that you can leave in all the time.
After about a week, I'd got to the stage where I could tolerate them all day and was finding them really good.
I tried leaving them in overnight for the first time last night, but found my eyes were a bit sore when I got up in the morning.
I've taken them out for now to let my eyes recover, but it's really disconcerting. My vision has adapted to the lenses and if I wear glasses while moving around I get completely disorientated and dizzy. It's the peripheral vision. A combination of the distortion at the edge of flat lenses and the lack of any lens at the side makes everything slide in and out of focus as I move.
One unexpected (but good) side effect of wearing the lenses all day is that my distance vision with them in has started to improve. When I first started using them, I really only had good vision while indoors. Outside, everything in the distance was blurred. Over time, my eyes seem to be managing to focus further while wearing them. The result isn't as good as my long-distance vision without lenses, but it's good enough to read a car numberplate at a legal distance.
I still need reading glasses with the contact lenses, but can manage gaming fine without them.
I hope my eyes are fine a few hours from now. I really want to get the lenses back in again. Even if I can only wear them during the day, that's good enough for me.
I can now get them in easily - even without a mirror. The trick turns out to do it differently from how I was taught. Don't look forward into a mirror. Look down into one. That way, the lens doesn't keep falling off your finger.
I'm finding it harder to take them out, though. That used to be the easy part. Now, my eyeballs keep flinching...
After about a week, I'd got to the stage where I could tolerate them all day and was finding them really good.
I tried leaving them in overnight for the first time last night, but found my eyes were a bit sore when I got up in the morning.
I've taken them out for now to let my eyes recover, but it's really disconcerting. My vision has adapted to the lenses and if I wear glasses while moving around I get completely disorientated and dizzy. It's the peripheral vision. A combination of the distortion at the edge of flat lenses and the lack of any lens at the side makes everything slide in and out of focus as I move.
One unexpected (but good) side effect of wearing the lenses all day is that my distance vision with them in has started to improve. When I first started using them, I really only had good vision while indoors. Outside, everything in the distance was blurred. Over time, my eyes seem to be managing to focus further while wearing them. The result isn't as good as my long-distance vision without lenses, but it's good enough to read a car numberplate at a legal distance.
I still need reading glasses with the contact lenses, but can manage gaming fine without them.
I hope my eyes are fine a few hours from now. I really want to get the lenses back in again. Even if I can only wear them during the day, that's good enough for me.
I can now get them in easily - even without a mirror. The trick turns out to do it differently from how I was taught. Don't look forward into a mirror. Look down into one. That way, the lens doesn't keep falling off your finger.
I'm finding it harder to take them out, though. That used to be the easy part. Now, my eyeballs keep flinching...
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