Synergeyes Contacts for Dry Eye

[painintheeye]

Great!! So happy for you!

Dear RS,

ARe these lenses expensive? ARe they going to be available to the general public or is it still in a trial period.

You mentioned you have severe dry eye, so are you aqueous deficient? Do these lenses rest on the sclera similar to the BFS scleral lenses or are they somewhat different? Because wonder if you are so severely dry, how will that cover your dry sclera and how will that apply to the general dry eye folks who are aqueous deficient as supposed to someone who is not?

Sorry for being so inquisitive but your success is giving us a lot of hope.

Chris

[rubyslippers]

9 hours with them on today and no discomfort at all. I did put in Refresh one time, just partially out of habit and partially because I know that my eyes still must be dry even though I cannot feel it. I honestly never thought that I would once again have eyes so comfortable that for 9 hours I don't even think about them AND be able to see well on top of it. I have learned to get them in and out much easier. Takes me about 2 tries per eye now, but that is nothing and should even get easier. The key is VERY dry fingers when I go after them.

[Stanza]

These sound great! I always had so many problems with RGPs as my eyes were just too big, vision was poor and I felt like they were suctioned on to get any kind of fit. Maybe these might work for me, who knows.

[rubyslippers]

Another great day and yippee! because I figured out how to get them out easier. The key is to have extremely dry fingers to do this. I washed my hands and dried well and then held tissue to my fingertips to absorb any moisture! Also I find removing with 2 index fingers, one on each side, work so much better than index and thumb. These things are paradise. It is hard for me to take them out when my time is up because my dry eye symptoms recur within 2 minutes after having been totally gone the whole time they are on my eye.

[rubyslippers]

I can potential wear them every waking moment. It is up to me to figure out my comfort zone.

My dry eyes were caused by a severe pink eye infection and the resulting antibiotics that damaged the mechanisms that make quality tears. Then I got another pink eye infection just as I was learning to manage and had to use those same antibiotics again as there was no safer choice. It also does not help that I am 52 year old female in peri-menopause and I likely had a bit of underlying dry eye before the infection.

[odydnas]

Wow that is absolutely amazing. Not only can you now wear contacts, there's a therapeutic reason for wearing them as well! Thank you very much for the update. I was wondering, how many hours can you wear them a day? And also, what caused your dry eye (blepharitis, mgd, don't make tears, etc)?

I am so happy to hear that you found something that works for you!

[rubyslippers]

I got them today and can wear them 100% pain free and yes, they significantly reduced ALL my dry eye symptoms the minute I put them in. There are 2 kinds. Kind A are designed for basic eye issues and the KC version is designed specificaly for keratonconus.

I was having more than usual dry eye symptoms today due to a 30 minute walk on a windy day with bright sunshine. By the time I got back to work from my walk, my eyes were pretty much shot. They were red, felt like something was in them, and my eyelids felt thick and tear duct area was raw. I had the really cold feeling on my eyes that I have not had for a couple of weeks. Within 3 minutes of putting the Synergeyes on my eyes, all symptoms disappeared. They initially did hurt but we discovered that was the solution and I will have to put them on with plain saline after we figured that out.

I have now been wearing them several hours and it is heaven. I will need more correction for the right one because the bifocal part is not strong enough, but I literally cannot, for the first time since I got dry eye, feel either contact on my eye at all.

They are very tricky for me to get off though. After 30 years plus, of rigid contacts, these are a challenge for me to remove. But--as wonderful as they feel and as good as I will be able to see (the left one has perfect vision now and they will up the right) I will get the removal figured out. I may be here panicked later though trying to remove them.

You do have to get new ones every 6 months but I believe that is included in the original price.

So far, I could not be happier and to have my dry eye symptoms disappear is amazing. If I remove them, the symptoms return in about 30 seconds.

[Rebecca Petris]

Best of luck with this, RS - and please keep us updated on your progress!!

[rubyslippers]

I found out today that is the brand I am getting. RGP in the center with a soft skirt. Not specifically used only for dry eye, but very helpful so that DES people can continue to wear contacts correctly if they require RGP correction. I asked about the neovascularization (sp?) and he said it takes years to develop, can happen with any person who wears contacts long term, and since I have worn RGP's morning until bed for 35 years, if I were going to have this I would most certainly have probably had signs by now. He said he will keep a close watch and that it was a good question, but should not be a big worry at this point. He said any good doctor watches this in all contact patients and in the very, very remote chance it happened we would go with another option. He said the chances are that I will love them and along with my 3 silicone plugs, my dry eye discomfort should be out of sight and out of mind for many years. Hurrah!! I went from moderate to severe dry eye and in 6 months time I am now quite comfortable, back to wearing contacts most of the day, and just so much happier in general. Please get a good doctor and do not give up. This doctor promised me significant relief by summer and it is looking good and I am basically there.