Vertigo and contact lenses

[watervole]

The vertigo is mostly gone these days, but I had a recent resurgence which is revealing in its way.

I've been having to having to re-acclimatise myself to contact lenses after the problems I had with amitriptyline.   I'm most of the way there now (I can wear them for about ten hours a day now), but I noticed an immediate return of the vertigo when I started wearing them again after a two-month break.

Clearly my eyes and balance system were confused by the change in focal length, etc.  Using glasses is a bad trigger at present, with or without lenses, clearly all part of the same issue.

It's starting to settle down now that I've been using the lenses for a couple of weeks, but the vertigo still triggers if I move my head while wearing glasses.  I'm hoping that too will wear off in a few more weeks. (It's a real bind when trying to look at my character sheet in RPGs.)

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[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I always have difficulty walking downstairs when I'm adjusting to a new pair of glasses - for the first few weeks, the steps appear to be the wrong distance away. It was particularly noticeable when I got these varifocals in March, though I've now worked out that, in addition to my usual strategy of staring into the distance and hoping my feet cope by themselves, I can do the opposite: if I tilt my head downwards and look through a higher part of the lens, the steps are where I expect them to be!