What's wrong with my contacts? Or is my vision just messed up?!
Question:
What's wrong with my contacts? Or is my vision just messed up?
Hallo, I am 16 & I have been wearing glasses for 9 years. I got contacts months ago and finally got them in one day. It took forever.
But that's beside the point. When I got them in it looked like my vision was curving around massively and it doesn't do that without anything in & I couldn't even balance enough to walk away from the mirror. I don't even mean something you can go through for a while, it was severe. So I had to take them out.
I can't put them back in because I wouldn't be able to go 5 minutes to get used to it. So, my contacts have been in the solution for months and haven't worn them since. I have a year supply left, but
1. They will probably be wondering why I'm not wearing them, and make me wear them.
2. I don't know if this is normal or not, but my mom said if I ask them they will examine me again & we can't afford it.
I have -4.25 in my right eye and -7.0 in my left. I think they gave me -6.25 in my left. That might be the issue? Not like they'd admit it....
Answers:
"I have -4.25 in my right eye and -7.0 in my left. I think they gave me -6.25 in my left. That might be the issue? Not like they'd admit it...."
if your GLASSES are -4.25 in the right and -7.00 in the left, then the contact lens Rx SHOULD BE about -4.00 or -4.25 in the right and -6.25 or -6.50 in the left. thats called VERTEXING and it has to do with the distance the lens is from your eye. glasses are "farther" from your eye and in nearsighted powers need to be "stronger" and contacts are CLOSER (actually on your eye) and in nearsighted poers dont need to be as "strong". so...i doubt the problem is the -6.25 contact lens in the left eye. that sounds normal to me.
two possibilities (in no particular order):
1) Rx is incorrect. would need a recheck with the doc. our office does not charge for this and it is my opinion thta no one should charge for that, but i cant speak for your eye doc
2) vestibulo-ocular response, or difficulty in "re-setting" your brain/eyes to adjust to the difference in the minifacation and eye movements between the glasses & the contacts. if that were the case, you could get over it by wearing the contacts all day everyday for a few days. but short intervals of wear will never get you over it...
http://www.cnl.salk.edu/~olivier/nips95s...
sorry, the link is rather complex...