Problems adjusting!!!

camikins · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-2011, 06:51 PM

I believe I have Boston XO's. I know they're bostons for sure. I just got them a few days ago. I know there's an adjustment period but man....

I can wear soft contacts but the normal toric lenses (yay for severe astigmatism!) rotate on my right eye. Now my choices were spend a lot of money on custom softs or try rgps. I've heard such good things about RGPs that I wanted to try them. However my problems are as such...

As soon as I put them in my eyes slam shut, and they water like crazy. My optometrist gave me the hydrogen peroxide solution that dissipates over a 6 hour period because my eyes are very sensitive to a lot of chemicals and she said that the regular boston solution can irritate my eyes and to only use that in a pinch. She also told me with the peroxide solution that I wouldn't have to do as much rubbing and cleaning.

So once my eyes stop tearing (as much) I can't look up. It's much more comfortable to look down (tolerable is a better word). If I look up my eyes slam shut and I start to see the edge of my lens on the right side. My right eye is my problem child. This is already my second fitting because my first one sat too low on my eye and I could see the edge of the contact just looking straight. She said the right could be slightly higher, but the left was a perfect fit.

If I take out my right contact and just leave the left it's much more tolerable and it makes me want to go around wearing an eyepatch just to get used to it.... However, a question I have is when my eyes are open normally, not overly open is the contact supposed to be slightly under my upper lid or not? It doesn't sit under my upper lid but sits right below it (on my left eye). On my right it tends to slide down. The dot is on my right eye and whenever I blink it rotates. I know they're suppose to rotate when you blink but it makes a clockwise rotation every time I blink til it goes all the way around. Is it supposed to sit in one spot and only one spot? I'm not sure.

Also, with my left eye, without the right in, I notice I can see the contact edge when I blink, and I just wonder if that is normal and you just get used to it when you stop blinking every half a second.

My vision is good in my left eye but sometimes if I cover the left and look through the right with the contact in my vision doesn't seem as clear. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I feel as though the contact is rotating too much.

I can only truthfully keep them in for about 15 minutes before I want to rip my eyes out of my head, but I'm trying a little bit at a time.... first time was about a grand total of 5 minutes so... Um.. That's my progress haha.

I'm very tempted to see if my optometrist can float a soft contact over the hard which we had talked about. Her concern was the fact that the right one rotates on my eye and I don't know if that would play into it. The softs are very comfortable, it's just the fact that my vision is not great because of the rotation. And if it's floating over a hard it wouldn't need a prescription.

ANY help is greatly appreciated! I want so much to get used to these but my eyes are very stubborn... and I can't stand eye discomfort...

Bonkers · #2 (**permalink**) 11-22-2011, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by camikins

I believe I have boston xo's. I know they're bostons for sure. I just got them a few days ago. I know there's an adjustment period but man....

I can wear soft contacts but the normal toric lenses (yay for severe astigmatism!) rotate on my right eye. Now my choices were spend a lot of money on custom softs or try rgps. I've heard such good things about RGPs that I wanted to try them. However my problems are as such...

As soon as I put them in my eyes slam shut, and they water like crazy. My optometrist gave me the hydrogen peroxide solution that dissipates over a 6 hour period because my eyes are very sensitive to a lot of chemicals and she said that the regular boston solution can irritate my eyes and to only use that in a pinch. She also told me with the peroxide solution that I wouldn't have to do as much rubbing and cleaning.

So once my eyes stop tearing (as much) I can't look up. It's much more comfortable to look down (tolerable is a better word). If I look up my eyes slam shut and I start to see the edge of my lens on the right side. My right eye is my problem child. This is already my second fitting because my first one sat too low on my eye and I could see the edge of the contact just looking straight. She said the right could be slightly higher, but the left was a perfect fit.

If I take out my right contact and just leave the left it's much more tolerable and it makes me want to go around wearing an eyepatch just to get used to it.... However, a question I have is when my eyes are open normally, not overly open is the contact supposed to be slightly under my upper lid or not? It doesn't sit under my upper lid but sits right below it (on my left eye). On my right it tends to slide down. The dot is on my right eye and whenever I blink it rotates. I know they're suppose to rotate when you blink but it makes a clockwise rotation every time I blink til it goes all the way around. Is it supposed to sit in one spot and only one spot? I'm not sure.

Also, with my left eye, without the right in, I notice I can see the contact edge when I blink, and I just wonder if that is normal and you just get used to it when you stop blinking every half a second.

My vision is good in my left eye but sometimes if I cover the left and look through the right with the contact in my vision doesn't seem as clear. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that I feel as though the contact is rotating too much.

I can only truthfully keep them in for about 15 minutes before I want to rip my eyes out of my head, but I'm trying a little bit at a time.... first time was about a grand total of 5 minutes so... Um.. That's my progress haha.

I'm very tempted to see if my optometrist can float a soft contact over the hard which we had talked about. Her concern was the fact that the right one rotates on my eye and I don't know if that would play into it. The softs are very comfortable, it's just the fact that my vision is not great because of the rotation. And if it's floating over a hard it wouldn't need a prescription.

ANY help is greatly appreciated! I want so much to get used to these but my eyes are very stubborn... and I can't stand eye discomfort...

Wow, it sure sounds like you and RGP lenses are having your differences, camikins. I'm sorry about that. It seems as though you're in touch with your eye doctor and I'm sure she would be a much better source of information that I can. I just suggest you keep trying to get used to the lenses. It may take a while, and there may come a point where you realize that they're just not for you. Still, keep trying and keep having a positive attitude, and let us know how you're doing in the next few days.