I’ve Stopped Wearing the Lens
Well, I give up. I went to see BL and she kept on telling me to wear them for another few weeks. I’m sorry I just can’t take it anymore.
Sad to say but they really didn’t help much during the day and night time vision is total crap. I’ve decided to remove the lens and let my eyes return back to the original state.
August 17th, 2006 at 7:45 pm
Several years ago I tried to register this URL. It was owned but inactive. Today, I discovered your site and am sorry to read about your visual problems.
You had a very high pre-operative prescription which requires a significantly unique RGP, not only to provide good vision but to be comfortable to wear as well. There is no “off the shelf” or brand of lens that will fit your post-surgical corneas. WAVE type lenses have limitations - primarily in that most topographical instruments only read accurately out to 6.0 or 7.0 mm in diameter. In addition, designing a lens with a back surface that is as irregular as your actual cornea is (1) overly-complicated, (2) not necessary optically and (3) simply impresses the irregularity into the corneal surface.
Post-LASIK RGPs generally fail because fitters are have not adjusted their thinking. Yes, reverse geometry suggests some insight but what is missed here is the relationship between the periphery of the lens (bearing on the unablated cornea), the center of the lens (bearing on the ablated area) and the transition between the those two zones. The lens should not vault centrally and should not bear heavily on the periphery. Also, the zone widths and diameters need to be adjusted relative to the ablation zone, the flap diameter and the over all corneal diameter.
I hate to see someone so young and obviously bright going through this but you are not alone. A lot of LASIK patients have bad experiences.
Email me for specifics. The most I can do from half a world away is get your pre-op and post-op data and work up a trial RGP for you. Frequently the trial lens is quite wearable. If you have a local OD or RGP fitter who can order lenses, I will give him/her a starting point and perhaps we can come up with a better solution for you.