Am I the only person in the world this happened to?!

Am I the only person in the world this happened to?

I wore hard contact lenses before they made the "gas permeable" ones. I wore them form age 13-28. At about age 16, my left eye started bothering me only with the contact in. My opthamologist told me my eyes had almost no tears and to buy some artificial tears. That helped some. So I continued to wear them. Once I was 27 the left one really hurt bad, and another opthamologist said my eyes were extremely dry, but wearing the lenses wouldn't hurt anything. When I was 28, I had to stop wearing them because the left eye was too painful. only with the contact in Then an opthamologist told me a was a perfect candidate for "Radial Keratotomy".(That was before lasik.) Ever since, I've had the pain in my left eye just like the contact lens was in, but I can't take it out because there's no lens in there. After going around the country to over 60 doctors, they all agreed that pain medication was the only option. So I'm on morphine and codeine. It helps some.

I've never heard of such a thing but, I agree that sucks. It would seem like these doctors would have seen this coming and been able to change treatment somehow. What I don't understand is whether this was a natural thing or something brought on by wearing the contacts ... etc.

I'm sad to hear about that happening to you - good luck.