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piggy back update

Postby Pat A » Fri 06 Apr 2007 1:58 pm

Hi
Piggy back lenses going quite well comfort wise (phew!) but I have found that I am frequently getting that "swimmy head" feeling (no, it's not the wine! :lol: ) when I'm wearing them, and a kind of vague headache most of the time too. I put this down to my eyes and brain trying to get used to seeing clearly again for the first time in many many months (if not years!)

Anyway, I went to my own local optician on Wednesday to try and sort out some reading/VDU glasses which I desperately need. And the upshot was that he has determined that I have the wrong prescription in my piggy back lens (the left eye ) as well as in my other eye! That is what has been causing my headaches & constantly "feeling drunk" feeling! :P :P He reckons the prescription is wrong in my left eye by at least +1.5, and the right eye (which I'm only using an astigmatic thick soft lens for at the moment) is out by -0.75! So he's ordered me some new soft lenses to compensate for the wrong strength in the RGP and for the other eye too, which means I've been very "unbalanced" since I started the piggy back regime (well, more so than usual :twisted: :twisted: ! ) I suspect that this has arisen from Moorfields testing me with the snellen chart when I've either been crying my eyes out becuase I've had the excruciatingly painful RGP's in, or because of the multiple images without the lenses, I found it so difficult to tell which was the best vision on the chart!

I'll let you know how I get on when I've got the new soft lenses!
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Fri 06 Apr 2007 2:58 pm

Pat

Your new lenses ought to make all the difference, and I know that I am looking forward to hearing that all is well! It's a pity they are having to juggle your prescriptions, adding on one lens to take away from the other!

All the best

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Postby Pat A » Wed 11 Apr 2007 4:42 pm

OK folks, got my new soft lens today to go under the RGP in my left eye and ....WOW! I can see clearly enough to drive legally, I've got my intermediate vision back and I've bought a pair of cheap off - the - shelf reading glasses from Tesco's which seem to be OK too 'cos I can read the paper, something I haven't been able to do for well over a year, and can see the computer screen and the keyboard too .......:D :D :D I am so happy!
It's only taken 7 months but we get there in the end!!!
(Now we have to work on getting the right eye sorted, but as that's a lazy eye it has little negative effect on my left one)

Cause for a small celebration on Sunday methinks, before I go back to the all the fun at work next Monday....!
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Postby Sweet » Wed 11 Apr 2007 5:08 pm

Yes I am so happy for you!!! That really calls for a celebration!!!
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Postby Andrew MacLean » Wed 11 Apr 2007 6:04 pm

A little bottle of pop for you, I think, on Sunday at the london social. :D
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Postby Pat A » Wed 11 Apr 2007 6:34 pm

Hehe - not so much of the little!! :twisted: :twisted:

[I might find a little bottle for the others though!]
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Postby Michael P » Fri 13 Apr 2007 7:14 pm

Excellent news Pat.

I was going to drive to the local tube station on Sunday but clearly, now, I'll be in no fit state to drive home from the social.

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Postby GarethB » Tue 17 Apr 2007 12:05 pm

At last the reward has finealy come.

Great news, the Capri is running so you will be able to see how badly I drive on track in July :D
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Postby Susan Mason » Tue 17 Apr 2007 11:25 pm

Hi Pat

This is reeally good news, hope you continue to see nice and clearly.

Best wishes

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