SheSue Experience

Finally!  Success in the search for contact lenses.  This whole story began in July when I decided to check out lasik surgery.   It has been several months and 6 different contact lenses.  But I finally met with success.

I did stick with the mono vision.  This is when you have one contact prescribed for distance and the other for close vision.  In my case I had the second lens prescribed for computer screen distance.  I don’t read a book close up anyway.  Now I just hold it a little further away.

It took 3 lenses before I finally got the close vision where I wanted.  It was the distance lens that has given me most of the problems.  Part due to the weird shape of my eye that causes my lenses to roll into the corners of my eyes.  Part due to chronic dry eye brought on by rheumatoid arthritis.  The chronic dry eye is worse in my right eye (who knows why), so my contact actually suctions to the eye.  Plus your eye normally produces protein through-out the day.  Tears normally wash this protein off your lenses.  But not me!  It’s sort of like when you wash windows.  Before the window dries completely there is a film on the window.  This is what happens to my lens.  I constantly had a film.

My last trip to the eye doctor, we both admitted discouragement, but my doctor had one more trick up his sleeve.   What I have now is a contoured lens.  It is actually shaped so that it will not move around on my eye and roll into the corner of my eye.  I still have some of the dry eye for which I use Optive eye drops.  But the lens is the most comfortable of all I have tried AND I can see!