Easier Contact Lens Removal with Suction Cup Tool
By admin | April 20, 2009
Having Trouble Removong Your Hard Contact Lens?
eek- the title of my post is much scarier sounding than it is. I got a RGP Inserter/Remover. It is small silicon tool with a tiny “suction cup” on the end to aid in the removal of my hard contact lens. You can also use to insert but I have never bothered. When I have been removing my hard lens it often slips the hard lens edge scrapes my eye or worst case then lens does a flip and I have lost TWO ( at $185 a pop!).
None of my local optometrists know what I as talking about when I mentioned a suction cup to remove hard lens.
Finally at specialist they not only knew about them but sold them and showed me how to use. The cost was 5.00 and well worth it.
Topics: My Keratoconus Updates | 1 Comment »
Still No Contact Lens for My Keratoconus
By admin | April 15, 2009
Yes, its been almost 8 months and I still don’t have a properly fitting contact lens for my keratonic eye.
I was diagnosed late August this year and have jumped though a zillion hoops to get help.
I go to a teaching hospital and care is excellent- just the process takes a long time.
If you are diagnosed with Keratoconus or PMD I cannot emphasis enough how important it is to get some one with experience with the disease.
The first eye doctor to diagnose was very nice, experienced and competent but just didn’t have much experience. After a few tries at fitting me with a hard rigid gas permeable contact lens she went to SynergEyes contacts which are not only expensive but don’t allow as much oxygen to the eye.
By fluke I ended up at School of Optometry and got “experts” to do fitting.
Last week was I HOPE my final fitting for a while. The guy did tell me most people with Keratoconus take about a year from diagnosis to get a good fit (!) Which no none told me at beginning.
Topics: My Keratoconus Updates | 2 Comments »
“Kissing Birds” On Eye Topography Sign of PMD
By admin | April 5, 2009
When I as at eye doctor last month being fitted yet again for a hard contact lens he showed me the topography of my eye. I was wondering how advanced the Keratoconus ( I actually have PMD or Pellucid Marginal Disease) was in my right eye. He showed me my left and pointed out the classic “kissing birds” image on the map of my moderately affected left eye.
He said with regular Keratoconus who see a more lazy 8 shape and with PMD “kissing birds” below is an example of MD so you can see what he meant. I have never heard it put that way and though it was neat way of looking at it.
Topics: PMD and Keratoconus | No Comments »
Do Ultrasonic Contact Lens Cleaners Work?
By admin | February 10, 2009
I was looking at one on Amazon, the SHINING IMAGE Ultrasonic Contact Lens Cleaner (blue) and it says it cleans hard lenses as well as soft and that it used saline or purified water to clean.
I am wondering about the general safety of these as well as if they remove protein build up on contact lenses.
I have reactions to almost every kids of contact lens cleaning solution I have tired adn this looks like it may solve my problem. Right now I rince everything under running tap water (!) before putting in my eye, Its not the best solution but so far the only one that works.
No one has ever mentioned an ultrasonic contact lens cleaner to me before and wonder why not?
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I have Naturally Occurring Mono vision
By admin | December 18, 2008
Have had several trip to the specialist to get fitted for hard lenses for my Keratoconus .. actually I have PMD ( Pellucid Marginal Disease) which is often lumped into same category as treatment is virtually the same.
The eye disease is moderate in my left eye on very mild in right.
After several exams and complaining that when I wore both contacts my vision seems almost worst than just one in my left eye was discovers I have naturally occurring monovison. Actually- I am pretty sure I told last couple eye doctors that my prescription is usually a + on one side and negative on the other but no attention was paid to me …
So what this means is I am far sighted in my right eye and near sighted in my left. When I wear glasses the PMD is not corrected and cant see very well. When I wear hard contact on my left eye I have perfect vision on that eye and it takes care of every up close.
So… in a nit shell I can wear one contact on nothing on my right eye. The left eye looks after things close up and right sees things far way.
Contact lens wearers will often create this affect if they need to wear bi-focals and wear two lenses one correcting near sightedness and the other far sightedness.
This is good news for me as less expense replacing only one contact not too mention cleaners, etc and good for my PMD to have nothing on the cornea.
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