So contacts have been the win for a couple of months or so I thought. One day out of the blue in only the second week of usage for the pair my right eye gets very itchy and vision is fucked. Once I arrive to work (yeah, driving on the motorway was fun...) I look in the mirror and see that every time I blink the right contact slides about half way up and then stay there, hence the fucked vision. I take it out and for about an hour afterwards my right eye felt a bit itchy. I left my contact in solution overnight and tried again to wear it the next day, this time I was fine until the afternoon, then again with the pulling half way up eyeball. Next day I tried a brand new contact, within a few hours same problem. FUCK!
Did some googling, looks like my right eye has
GPC. Rang OPSM, and saw the optometrist, and sure enough GPC. She wants me to see a retina specialist to get it correctly treated. The retina specialist is fully booked for two weeks but I make appointment.
So see him yesterday, in the meantime I have only been wearing contact in left eye, surprising how the brain copes with only one decent eye. He can't find anything at all wrong with the right eye, but is quite concerned about a cloudy patch that he has found in my LEFT EYE! He says it is a very small infection, most defiantly caused by wearing contacts. He prescribes some antibiotic eye drops that I have to take every two hours, then he drops the bombshell, he doesn't want me wearing contacts at all, ever again. He says some people just are not suited to wearing contacts; the eyeball just doesn't like it, so flares up all the time. In my case the reaction was strong enough to be noticed by OPSM in their month long checks but it is still there, probably aggravated by my hayfever.
After having the freedom of contacts (or more accurately the freedom of not having glasses) for 4 months, I really really don't want to go back to wearing glasses, so yesterday made a appointment to see if I am a suitable candidate for LASIK eye surgery. I was always planning on laser eye surgery but thought I would wear contacts for a while until I saved up enough to pay for it out right, plans change.