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contact report

http://xb95.livejournal.com/624541.html

Been doing contacts for over a week. The doctor has played some with the prescription in my right eye (my dominant eye). Technically I think the eye is at -3.75, but there's a magnitude 0.5 astigmatism in that eye.

Right now, I'm using normal soft lenses. I.e., not correcting for the astigmatism. Originally we were using a -4.00 lens, both to make it more convenient (my left eye is -4.00 with no astigmatism, it'd be more convenient to share the same lens type), and to try to correct for the astigmatism by overpowering the eye. (Apparently a common trick for minor astigmatisms like mine.)

Anyway, it was causing me to get some headache type symptoms and it was still somewhat hard to see with that eye the way it is. The doctor lowered me to the "real" prescription for that eye, which has mostly resolved the headache issue (almost, still minor) but vision is somewhat more problematic now. My right eye is a lot (relatively) more fuzzy than my left. It's only really noticeable when I'm on the computer, though, out and about in the world they're close enough not to really matter.

I'm not quite sure what to do. The doctor said my astigmatism versions of contacts don't really start until magnitude 0.75 so I'm not quite there yet, not to mention toric lenses (the kind that correct for astigmatism) are a lot more fussy than regular lenses. They have to be positioned just so, etc. Not really the kind of thing I want to be messing with if I can avoid it.

I think I'll just keep plugging along with my current -4.00/-3.75 combination of regular soft lenses and see if I adjust. I think I probably will be fine given some time for my brain to get used to not being able to use the right eye quite as much for detail work. I hope, anyway.