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two days ago I did the first trial on scleral lenses. I posted it here: http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/showt...es-first-trial
Today I had the second and last trial. I spent almost two hours with them. I think the feedback and experience of people that wear sclerals or tried them would help me to decide if I should purchase them and give them a try for some weeks.
I read on this board about fitting process, but I think in Brazil there is no such thing like that. In my case the doctor saw the sample that has the best distance to my cornea, and that is it. There is no adjustment for comfort. He just see the prescription you need, the best distance from the cornea among the kit samples and its over. It's kind of a 'fast-food' thing. I didn't even had the chance to discuss deeply what I felt in the trials. Now I need to decide to purchase and wear them or not.
Along 1990 I tried wear contact lenses. I didn't have dry eyes, but almost always I had some kind of discomfort, so I gave up wearing them. In these short scleral lenses trials I remembered the feeling I had in 1990 when wearing the contact lenses: the discomfort, the feeling of something in the eyes, even a bad chemichal feeling or irritation.
After removing the sclerals in these short trials, my eyes were bothering me more than before putting them. I think the sclera and the inside of the eyelids were irritated (for 'inside of the eyelids' I mean not the part where the melbomium flows out).
Today I felt the sclerals all the time when blinking and moving my eyes. It was not a pain feeling but it was not comfortable. But before two hours wearing them I felt it was hurting at a point of my sclera or eyelid, and it was not a simply discomfort, it was pain. My question is, is that normal? Wearing them for some weeks would the eyes get used to them and will they feel comfortable? (when I tried the contact lenses 23 years ago my eyes never got used to them).
The good part is that while wearing them the dry eyes burning feeling was gone. I could walk on the streets with the wind in my face, and that was awesome after one and a half year of dry eyes.
But I don't know if the discomfort and even pain in eyelids or sclera I felt, and the feeling my eyes were irritated after removing them, means I should stop the trial here, or should I buy them and keep trying for some time.
I will be very thankfull for any advice or insight.
two days ago I did the first trial on scleral lenses. I posted it here: http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/showt...es-first-trial
Today I had the second and last trial. I spent almost two hours with them. I think the feedback and experience of people that wear sclerals or tried them would help me to decide if I should purchase them and give them a try for some weeks.
I read on this board about fitting process, but I think in Brazil there is no such thing like that. In my case the doctor saw the sample that has the best distance to my cornea, and that is it. There is no adjustment for comfort. He just see the prescription you need, the best distance from the cornea among the kit samples and its over. It's kind of a 'fast-food' thing. I didn't even had the chance to discuss deeply what I felt in the trials. Now I need to decide to purchase and wear them or not.
Along 1990 I tried wear contact lenses. I didn't have dry eyes, but almost always I had some kind of discomfort, so I gave up wearing them. In these short scleral lenses trials I remembered the feeling I had in 1990 when wearing the contact lenses: the discomfort, the feeling of something in the eyes, even a bad chemichal feeling or irritation.
After removing the sclerals in these short trials, my eyes were bothering me more than before putting them. I think the sclera and the inside of the eyelids were irritated (for 'inside of the eyelids' I mean not the part where the melbomium flows out).
Today I felt the sclerals all the time when blinking and moving my eyes. It was not a pain feeling but it was not comfortable. But before two hours wearing them I felt it was hurting at a point of my sclera or eyelid, and it was not a simply discomfort, it was pain. My question is, is that normal? Wearing them for some weeks would the eyes get used to them and will they feel comfortable? (when I tried the contact lenses 23 years ago my eyes never got used to them).
The good part is that while wearing them the dry eyes burning feeling was gone. I could walk on the streets with the wind in my face, and that was awesome after one and a half year of dry eyes.
But I don't know if the discomfort and even pain in eyelids or sclera I felt, and the feeling my eyes were irritated after removing them, means I should stop the trial here, or should I buy them and keep trying for some time.
I will be very thankfull for any advice or insight.
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