Really Confused!!

[Mehdi]

Hi,
I am 30 years old living in Kuwait. After wearing glasses for 22 years, I decided to try contact lenses. It has been three months now and I cannot find a solution. Right eye: -2.00/ -2.25X60 Left eye: -2.50/ -0.75X125
I started with visiting an eye care professional in one of the well-known branches here. He ordered Acuvue Oasys for Astigmatism contacts for me. I received them after 3 weeks. Immediately after wearing them I realized that my right eye'e vision changes by each blink. I checked with another optometrist and after accurate checkup he said the lens keeps spinning in my right eye by 30-45 degree. It was much more stable in my left eye though. Meanwhile I realized that my eyes turn red after wearing them for an hour and feel sticky.
Then I decided to check with an ophthalmologist. He gave me Pataday eye drops and said come back after a week. I frankly felt he did not pay enough attention and he said not everyone can wear contact lenses! So I decided to check with another optometrist. This time she gave me Bausch + Lomb trial which were thicker. Did not like them so she redirected me to a special branch which takes care of Keratoconus cases.

I went there and after 2.5 hrs of testing and discussing the Dr. ordered UltraVision Kerasoft 3 for me. After 3 weeks I received them. They were less comfortable in the eye than Oasys but I assumed I will get used to them. From the other side they were moving up 2-3 mm and then come down slowly by each blink. It was weird. I decided to check with another ophthalmologist/surgeon. I told him the story and he took a corneal topography and the result was normal. He said I do not have Keratoconus and it might be just a contact lenses tolerance issue and I should be able to easily wear soft contact lenses. He gave me three eye drops: Nevanac, Alcon and Optive and told me to use them for a week since I have a little cornea inflammation and will be fine in a week. He also mentioned due to the dry and dusty weather here dryness is a common problem which I should take care of it. He told me to go back to the optometrist and tell him to make sure he ordered the correct measurements specially the base curve. I did. He offered another type of soft Bausch + Lomb trial lenses. The vision on my right eye was not good at all. At least with Oasys I had vision on the right eye once in a while. So his last offer was to keep wearing the Kerasoft ones until I get used to them!

Now after all of these (visiting three eye care professionals and three ophthalmologists) I am left with no option. I cannot use the Oasys lenses since it twists in my right eye and the Kerasoft lenses are just wired. When I wear them it's like I am looking at thing from behind a window covered by rain drops in a rainy day! At night, street lights have shadows on the right-down side if I look by my right eye and left-down side if I look by my left eye, Imagine! I can even see the lines of the Kerasoft lenses in that shadow. I think these lines are there due to the technique they use to make them.

Help!

[Andrew MacLean]

Mehdi

Welcome to the forum.

I wish I could help, but I am sure that there is something awry with your new lenses. In your place I would go back to the dispensing optometrist and keep going back until I had a result with which I was happy.

Every good wish.

Andrew

[Mehdi]

Thank you.
Since I do not have keratoconus I don't see the reason to wear Kerasoft lenses. Although the optometrist said they perfectly fit on my cornea (i'm not really sure) they are uncomfortable and weird for me. Shall I keep switching between normal hydrogel lenses until one fits my right eye? Is there any other way? I was thinking maybe silicone is not the right choice for me due to dryness. Is there any brand that is more famouse for tolerance and stability for astigmatism?

Regards,
Mehdi.