piggy back update
Posted: 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!
) 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!
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 
! ) 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!
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!
) 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!
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 ! ) 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!
