Another Question

[Carole Rutherford]

Here I go again guys.

David has now been wearing the RGP lens in his right eye for about 6 weeks. He can now wear it for about 6 to 8 hours each day. He's taken to it like a pro. They have finally agreed that the left lens does not fit because it keeps slipping and falling out so at the moment he only has one lens while he waits for a new left lens.

The problem is that yesterday his right eye became very bloodshot and angry after he had put the lens in. He still left it in and the same thing has happened today and now he says the eye is very tender and is hurting him. This has come out of nowhere any ideas what the problem might be?

thanks

Carole

[James Colclough]

He may have just irritated it.

My eye's often look like Arnie's in the first Terminator (Bathroom scene)

I find that if I keep my eyes lubricated it helps.

I use blink it's preservative free, around £4.00 a box.

Personally, I would give the eye a rest.

[John Smith]

This could be a specific irritation, or just over-wear syndrome (read this).

If his eye is angry-looking, I'd suggest to get it looked at by your optician or eye casualty.

[Susan Mason]

Hi Carole

As James has said it could just be irritated, a bit of dust or grit pollen even.

I have always been advised to remove my lenses at the first sign of irritation and let my eye calm down, insert drop or rinse with sterile saline etc. In principle this soulds ok however, may in reality mean a 20 minute break or a few days without the lens - not good when you then can't see what you are doing.

If it is still sore I would see David's contact lens people or your GP.

With a quite badly irritated eye I have once end up having swabs taken to check for infection, which luckily did not show and a course of antibiotic drops solved the problem withing a week or so.

fingers crossed all is ok, I would definately suggest leaving the lens out for some time and see if things do calm down.

best wishes

Susan

[Carole Rutherford]

Hi this is actually David.

I had stopped wearing the lens anyway for 2 days as it was my b-day on one of those days and I was just to busy to put it in that day.

Then the day after I realised that my room was a total mess and again got to busy to put it in.

It hasn't just recently been happening though, but I obviously forgot to mention that to my mam so she thought that it had only just started in thee past few days.

Usually I do keep my eye well moisturised but today it wasn't actually sore and feeling as if I needed to put any drops in.

All day it had been fine and then all of a sudden I blinked and it felt as if I had actually jabbed a shard of glass into my eye, and it had done this yesterday (however yesterday it was because I was wiping the excess moisture from the drops off my face and the corner of my eye. But i'm always very careful and never use force, and even then it felt as if I had jabbed my eye even though I was just lightly rubbing it with a bit of cloth).

But it has done this many times before and it really hurts.

Then my eye will remain Red for a few days.

It's as if I can feel the viens bursting.

But yes, what you said James is what it's like for me too, the Arnie scene.

But this was mainly during the teething process of the lens, so I don't know why it's still happeneing now. Granted it's not happening as much, but it's still a right pain in the (censored).

[Prue B]

David,

Firstly nice to meet you after hearing so much about you, us mums and our kids you just can't shut us up, lol.

Secondly I failed contact lenses, seriously they were harder than my anatomy and physiology lectures. But I have lubriucation issues in my right eye particulary and it is like a knife is stabbing me in the eye ball. Also dust or something like that on the lens can cause irritation, from what I have been told. I would suggest mentioning it to an eye care professional and getting it checked, giving yourself breaks as needed and keep the lubrication up in the mean time. I find if I am at all unwell my eyes are dryer than normal. I had a kidney infection recently and my eyelids felt like sandpaper.

good luck,

Prue

[GarethB]

Hi David,

You are no longer quite the man of mystery despite evrything your mum has told us.

Perhaps one lesson is don't clean your room

That is what Mums are for

Sereously though, if you are worried, the local eye casualty are very helpfull. My eye went blood shot after I took my lens out back in january and I had pinched a blood vessel. It was below the ey lid margin, but enough to turn my eye red and make it sore. A week without a lens and regular use of a lubricating eye drop and everything settled down again. The hospital also examined the lens under a microscope to check there were no small chips in the lens are dirt stuck on the lens too.

Prior to this I was already using lubricating eye drops which help to lock in moisture into the cornea too. During the past month with the increased heat I am having to remove my lens and use these drops more often so this heat could be a contributing factor.

Regards

Gareth

[Carole Rutherford]

Yeah, i've been getting badgered to come here from my mam, lol.

She used to clean my room Gareth but it used to get as messy as 7 full Black bags that she gave up, lol.

But I now clean my room alot since I broke my wrist by slipping on a crisp packet or a magazine.

Walkers said it was N64 and N64 said it was Walkers, so just incase I threw them both out, lol.

But yeah the heat might be it because i've got to have the fan on and after even a minute of the fan blowing at my face my eyes are getting irritated when i've got my contact in.

But I had gotten used to the wind, well not fully used to it, but better than I was coping with the fan blowing in my eye.

So basically though, what you're all saying is, that even if I don't feel like I need the drops, to use them quite often anyway and see if it helps?

So i'll give that a go, thanks

[GarethB]

David,

We know you are a patient guy, finding the eye drops that best suit you is a bit trial and error and they usually take a week or so of regular use before you can tell if they are really working.

Please let us know how you get on.

[Carole Rutherford]

Will do