Postby Knight » Thu 12 Jan 2006 2:13 am
well during the day, it depends on the sun, I drive alot and mostly I'm great at daytime driving. Nighttime is another matter entirely, the strong headlights of cars kind of overpower me if I'm out with one lens in (just to make clear I've legal eyesight in both eyes to drive with my rgp lenses and I can drive one eye when the other is giving me problems) - mainly the odd time going to get sugar or milk etc at night driving is near impossible when a car comes along, I have to slow down look down at the side of the road and still the light hitting my unaided eye overpowers my sight and I need to stop occassionally if its a long tail of cars passing me. With both rgp lenses in I can and often do drive at night, I've for 6mths now thou been driving with a good fitting sclera lens in my left eye (the hassles of that lens aside) driving at night with it in can be a bit odd, but not impossible to drive with - all I get is a reflected light into the 'cup' of the lens which can be a bit distracting at first. I think in general for me, the light hitting the reflective surface of our lenses is the problem, halos, glimmers, flashes and sparkles - so I tend to tighten my eyelids more and that helps cut it out alot.
I have a very well lit room, four uplights and one hanging light, but its still not sharp hurt ur eyes light and all my windows are covered with bamboo blinds that diffuse the light - very calming too... but its a constant light level, good bright but not harsh thru the day (I work from home) and find I can work extra time bc I got the light suited to me.
Generally thou, my vision unaided in my left is impossible, my right stays ok for about 3hrs then goes. With my rgp lenses in, most times of the days dont bother me, its just the extremes of light which for me is worse when I wear my sclera lens - so I do have many issues and problems during night or day ... but overall its strong artificial lighting, strong sunlight or sudden flashes of light that bother me. Althou on a slightly different issue, I do find and this is becoming more apparent, that my depth perception at night time or low level light is getting to be off, bumping into things and miss-grabbing things offered to me, either not at all or pulling their arm with it but that is down to me just using one eye for most of the day... I hadn't wore a left lens in about 8mths bc I had some other issues then I was given the sclera lens, first day in, at the clinic, I almost fell over - I could see perfectly right down to the last line of letters, but walking felt like I was on a ship, my brain-eye wasn't used to it anymore! It got better fast within a day or so, but without it in, I miss or bump stuff all the time.
Oh on a side note, I have to cover my VCR DVD,TV, Speakers and Computer leds, with my lenses out the light from them can get so annoying bc the 'light spreads' after a while when my eyes relax, the weird 'disc' shaped jaggy halo of light from them pulsates and I can't see anything else in the room.
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Knight on Fri 13 Jan 2006 8:57 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Only those with KC know the hidden beauty of a Christmas Tree.
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. Since being diagnosed with KC I understand that this is a common phenomenon for KC sufferers. However, my optometrist tells me that once a KC patient is fitted with corrective lenses they usually find night driving much easier 
. Since I received my right contact lens (still waiting for the left!) I have found that actually the flare and glaring is exaggerated even more 
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. You have given me some new ideas 
- although my car won't know what hit it if I start cleaning the inside of the windscreen