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Wow! First helpful advice in eight weeks!
Just been to see my optician to try to get to the bottom of being unable to wear my contact lenses.
I think he's cracked it, but can't understand why on three trips to the eye hospital, they didn't notice I have a few blocked Meibomian glands (he says not all of them, but some).
In fact, I noticed this morning that a tiny pin prick of white came from one of these glands after I got out of the shower.
So, he tells me to do hot compresses religiously for two weeks and it should sort the problem.
Also, as I became allergic to Viscotears, he says it also means I'll be allergic to my contact lens solution. So he's changed that to hydrogen peroxide solution.
He was very kind, patient and helpful and not as rough as the nurses at the eye hospital who made me nearly scream the place down while swabbing my eyes!
He's assured me I will be able to continue wearing lenses, but to try "one thing at a time" and also to find a more cost effective solution than just automatically changing my lenses to daily disposables.
Here's hoping that this sorts the problem out!!!
I hope you all here have found an understanding practitioner willing to help you get to the bottom of what's happening with your eyes -- it's certainly given me some hope after eight weeks of uncertainty.
I think he's cracked it, but can't understand why on three trips to the eye hospital, they didn't notice I have a few blocked Meibomian glands (he says not all of them, but some).
In fact, I noticed this morning that a tiny pin prick of white came from one of these glands after I got out of the shower.
So, he tells me to do hot compresses religiously for two weeks and it should sort the problem.
Also, as I became allergic to Viscotears, he says it also means I'll be allergic to my contact lens solution. So he's changed that to hydrogen peroxide solution.
He was very kind, patient and helpful and not as rough as the nurses at the eye hospital who made me nearly scream the place down while swabbing my eyes!
He's assured me I will be able to continue wearing lenses, but to try "one thing at a time" and also to find a more cost effective solution than just automatically changing my lenses to daily disposables.
Here's hoping that this sorts the problem out!!!
I hope you all here have found an understanding practitioner willing to help you get to the bottom of what's happening with your eyes -- it's certainly given me some hope after eight weeks of uncertainty.
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