One more eye update

[silverthorne]

Well, the drops are helping (if I keep up with them, I at least get the illusion that my vision is fine). I can see the keyboard and the screen okay, and watch TV without too much problem. When it gets blurry, I just apply more drops.

The right eye is still blurry even with my glasses on, but it's starting to clearly focus on close up objects for the most part. Distance objects are still unfocused, but it's more of a cloudy effect than a blur, usually. I just can't see clearly out of it.

The doctor wrote me out a steroid RX...Walmart was taking it's sweet time filling it, and I'm not up to dealing with the rush hour traffic to go back for it, so I'll start that tomorrow. I go in again next Wednesday to see how that does me. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. This whole situation is for the birds.

Comments

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

OK, what exactly did they decide is wrong with your eye, again? Because it seems to have been bothering you for quite some time now.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Had a virus I thought was allergies. By the time my eyes got fucked up enough that I *had* to go to the doctor for it, the virus was gone, but it had left behind a ton of white blood cell clusters (which are now fading), and damaged, extremely DRY surfaces, which make them cloudy and not letting in light correctly, thus unfocusing my sight in the right eye.

It's rather like an old car headlight cover--its milky, scatters light, and although light DOES get through, it's nowhere near as concentrated or helpful as it would be if the 'cover' were new and shiny and clear.

We're trying to re-moisturie the surface, essentially.

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

Are you using Restasis, or something else? Because my opthamologist just last week gently chewed me out for not sticking with Restasis, and I'm curious.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

I don't remember what RX I was given, and won't know until tomorrow afternoon when I go to pick it up.

Right now, I am using an artificial tear drops called Systane, which is what the doctor told me to get when I went in MOnday.

When I'm using contacts, I have the Bauch and Laum extended wear lenses, and I use the Alcon Optifree Replinish line, which is also what my doctor started me on two years ago.