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About a year ago (near July), I started wearing Ortho-K contact lenses (lenses that you wear overnight and take off in the morning to improve your vision temporarily). During this time, my eyes were perfectly normal and white. However, 3-4 months in, I noticed a brown pigmentation appear. My optometrist dismissed this and noted that "it's always been there" (it only appeared after wearing the lenses). Trusting her (even though confused), I continued wearing the lenses. However, as time went on, small red veins would start to appear, and eventually, close to October, my eyes went very red, but my eyes felt normal. Unfortunately, even though the weeks went by, the redness only diminished slightly and there were veins remaining which weren't present before. Checking with the optometrist, she noted that my eyes were dry and once again noted that "the veins and dry eyes have always been there" when I asked her how and when my eyes became dry (noticing she didn't say anything about it before I started using Ortho-Ks). Strangely, my eyes still felt fine and she prescribed some eye drops and suggested to take fish oil capsules for Omega 3. After trying them and eventually discontinuing them, nothing changed at all, my eyes still felt fine and my eyes were still a little bit red.
So I tried to see a GP instead, and I'm pretty sure he had no idea of what was going on, but he tried Chlorosil (for bacterial/viral conjunctivitis) and Patanol (allergic conjunctivitis) to treat it. I don't know why, but after using Patanol in the first week, my eyes immediately started getting less red. I tried it for a few more months, but the eyes didn't return back to their normal whiteness, though it became less red. I had stopped using the lenses during this time (still no differences were observed). However, checking with two opthalmologists afterwards, they both noted that I don't have allergic conjunctivitis (which Patanol is for), and my eyes aren't dry. Yet they don't know why my eyes are still a little red.
Yesterday, I visited my optometrist again. Once again, she said my eyes were a little bit dry and I told her the doctors said my eyes weren't dry and there's sufficient tears. However, she said that it was the tear quality and not that there weren't enough tears (ie. my tears were more oily than watery). She suggests to use eye drops once everyday and drink lots of water.
I'm mainly worried because the veins under my upper eyelid used to be really light, but got really red like a week ago. They returned to almost normal after a day or so, but I have a feeling the veins are a teensy bit redder than before; I'm not even sure because I'm so scared and I really don't want my eyes to get more red so it might just be in my head, but I'm 80% sure that they are a little redder than usual. I've also noted that my eyes are usually pretty red whenever I wake up, but they aren't so bad after half an hour or so.
So my main dilemma is, what's going on? Should I try the eye drops again? I have trouble trusting her because of the contacts, and the disparity between her diagnosis and other doctors in relation to my "dry eyes" and how I feel about my eyes (they feel fine). Will doing this stop my redness (veins) from getting worse? At the end of the day, I just don't want my eyes getting more red.
Any help would be really appreciated, thanks in advance x
So I tried to see a GP instead, and I'm pretty sure he had no idea of what was going on, but he tried Chlorosil (for bacterial/viral conjunctivitis) and Patanol (allergic conjunctivitis) to treat it. I don't know why, but after using Patanol in the first week, my eyes immediately started getting less red. I tried it for a few more months, but the eyes didn't return back to their normal whiteness, though it became less red. I had stopped using the lenses during this time (still no differences were observed). However, checking with two opthalmologists afterwards, they both noted that I don't have allergic conjunctivitis (which Patanol is for), and my eyes aren't dry. Yet they don't know why my eyes are still a little red.
Yesterday, I visited my optometrist again. Once again, she said my eyes were a little bit dry and I told her the doctors said my eyes weren't dry and there's sufficient tears. However, she said that it was the tear quality and not that there weren't enough tears (ie. my tears were more oily than watery). She suggests to use eye drops once everyday and drink lots of water.
I'm mainly worried because the veins under my upper eyelid used to be really light, but got really red like a week ago. They returned to almost normal after a day or so, but I have a feeling the veins are a teensy bit redder than before; I'm not even sure because I'm so scared and I really don't want my eyes to get more red so it might just be in my head, but I'm 80% sure that they are a little redder than usual. I've also noted that my eyes are usually pretty red whenever I wake up, but they aren't so bad after half an hour or so.
So my main dilemma is, what's going on? Should I try the eye drops again? I have trouble trusting her because of the contacts, and the disparity between her diagnosis and other doctors in relation to my "dry eyes" and how I feel about my eyes (they feel fine). Will doing this stop my redness (veins) from getting worse? At the end of the day, I just don't want my eyes getting more red.
Any help would be really appreciated, thanks in advance x
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