It’s time to write again, I received my 2nd pair of my RGPs yesterday after 16 days of waiting.
Left Eye : The vision is almost perfect, I can ALMOST see 20/20 but nevermind, I’m quite happy with it. The important thing is, it’s comfortable. According to my optometrist, it’s a little bit too tight. This is no good because there will be no tears exchange between the cornea and the lens. I find it a bit hard to take the lens out too.
Right Eye : Still bad, not only higher prescription is needed but also uncomfortable. When I look in the mirror, I noticed that the lens doesn’t fit on the centre again. This time around, the lens tends to move to the right. I feel pain and discomfortable everytime I blink and close my eyes. This is definately not good enough.
Experience: I’ve been wearing them for 4 hours last night. When I reached home, the first thing I did was switching off the light in my room and turned on my pc. Usually, I will see terrible STARBURSTS of my modem’s blinking yellow LED. To my surprise, I don’t see the starbursts from the LEDs anymore. Then, I started watching one of my DVDs with the subtitles ON. WOW! No more DOUBLE VISION! I was very happy.
Today, I tried them again for more than 8 hours. I started wearing the lenses after lunch. I felt very irritated on my right eye. I can’t stop blinking and looking at the mirror. Something was definately wrong with it. I went bowling with my colleagues after work. On my way back, I carefully observed my surroundings, I looked at all the lights around the train station and the busy roads. I felt disappointed. I noticed that the starbursts from car headlights are still very large. In fact, they were like much bigger and clearer with the lens. The further the distance, the bigger the starbursts. I’m feeling a little bit sad after finding out that RGPs can’t really solve all the problems after all….. Anyway, I still need to wear them as they reduced more than 70% of the higher order abberrations.
I have an appointment with BL Optometrist tomorrow. I’m going to report what happened today and yesterday and return the lenses to them. I hope they can get the new lens ready before Chinese New Year… Till then…