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A belated addition to my narrative today, the result of an intensive fitting process which left me little time at the laptop while I was at the clinic, and a couple of visitors at my hotel which kept me busy at night and unable to get on DEZ to update.
The last two days have been filled with the exact same process, over and over: the trial-and error fitting process which I described earlier. For those who crave more detail, here you go:
One of the BFS exam rooms has a long wall which has shelf after shelf of these little manila envelopes, which bulge at the center, where the single-lens contact case is holding a BFS lens. I have come to learn that BFS never throws away a "failed" lens (i.e., one that does not quite work for a given patient). Instead, they sterilize these lenses and put them on this wall, with all of their specs written on the envelope. These become the "trial lenses" and these are a big part of the fitting proces. After placing a lens on me, and having me wear it for an hour or two, Dr Rosenthal then brings me back into his exam room, and asks me how it feels, and is veryconcerned about the details. I will tell him, for example, that I have an itchy sensation at "3:00" and he will do a slit lamp exam. Sometimes, he will see something which explains my symptoms, sometimes everything looks fine. But he states over-and-over that the symptoms are the most important thing. Based on all of this, he will go to the computer, punch in some buttons which have to do with the size, depth, and flare of the lens (among, I am sure, other things), and he will then find a trial lens from the "wall-of-lenses" with a shape close to what he just punched into the computer. These trial lenses all have someone else's Rx in them, and so vision with them is often poor. When a new lens is placed, Dr R has the patient wait an hour or two (sometimes longer), and then he reexamines the patient to see how the lenses feel and how they look under the slit lamp. This process leads to a lot of "blind time" where I am waiting to see how the lens feels, and have a lens (or lenses) in my eyes which have someone elses prescription. When something is pretty good, Dr Rosenthal will order a lens to made for my Rx, which takes a couple of hours.
Right now, I have a good fit and Rx for my left eye--I can barely feel the lens most of the time, though I notice that with more activity, I feel it a bit more. My Right eye has a good Rx, but one area of irritation at the teporal (outside) part of my right eye (or, perhaps, the lid). I have been going through a series of lenses to find a solution to this problem, and am slowly getting there (yesterday at this time, the right eye has 2 spots of irritation; now one of thise is completely resolved). Absolutely NO dry eye symptoms in either eye. When you see these lenses on your own eyes, you can see that the eye is literally covered with fluid 100% of the time with the lens, and so the eyes simply are NOT dry, hence no dry eye symptoms.
More to come.
The last two days have been filled with the exact same process, over and over: the trial-and error fitting process which I described earlier. For those who crave more detail, here you go:
One of the BFS exam rooms has a long wall which has shelf after shelf of these little manila envelopes, which bulge at the center, where the single-lens contact case is holding a BFS lens. I have come to learn that BFS never throws away a "failed" lens (i.e., one that does not quite work for a given patient). Instead, they sterilize these lenses and put them on this wall, with all of their specs written on the envelope. These become the "trial lenses" and these are a big part of the fitting proces. After placing a lens on me, and having me wear it for an hour or two, Dr Rosenthal then brings me back into his exam room, and asks me how it feels, and is veryconcerned about the details. I will tell him, for example, that I have an itchy sensation at "3:00" and he will do a slit lamp exam. Sometimes, he will see something which explains my symptoms, sometimes everything looks fine. But he states over-and-over that the symptoms are the most important thing. Based on all of this, he will go to the computer, punch in some buttons which have to do with the size, depth, and flare of the lens (among, I am sure, other things), and he will then find a trial lens from the "wall-of-lenses" with a shape close to what he just punched into the computer. These trial lenses all have someone else's Rx in them, and so vision with them is often poor. When a new lens is placed, Dr R has the patient wait an hour or two (sometimes longer), and then he reexamines the patient to see how the lenses feel and how they look under the slit lamp. This process leads to a lot of "blind time" where I am waiting to see how the lens feels, and have a lens (or lenses) in my eyes which have someone elses prescription. When something is pretty good, Dr Rosenthal will order a lens to made for my Rx, which takes a couple of hours.
Right now, I have a good fit and Rx for my left eye--I can barely feel the lens most of the time, though I notice that with more activity, I feel it a bit more. My Right eye has a good Rx, but one area of irritation at the teporal (outside) part of my right eye (or, perhaps, the lid). I have been going through a series of lenses to find a solution to this problem, and am slowly getting there (yesterday at this time, the right eye has 2 spots of irritation; now one of thise is completely resolved). Absolutely NO dry eye symptoms in either eye. When you see these lenses on your own eyes, you can see that the eye is literally covered with fluid 100% of the time with the lens, and so the eyes simply are NOT dry, hence no dry eye symptoms.
More to come.
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