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Dr. Stoll wanted me to keep in touch about the nighttime contact lenses so I thought I'd give an update.
To recap: my daughter, now 11, had been getting progressively worse vision from the time she was 9, and instead of giving her glasses I looked into finding a behavioural optomitrist and see if there were alternatives. Her new doctor said that since she's growing and her cornea is bowing out each year, the best thing to do would be to use a "brace" to prevent it from getting worse so he recommended nighttime lenses. She wears these hard contacts at night, takes them out the next day and her vision is 20-20 all day. She can skip a night with no problem now.
It's been a year now. Her eyes are fine, no scratching of the cornea, and her eyesight is the same as it was last year - no progression of nearsightness. If we hadn't caught it when we did, she would have been much more nearsighted. Also, it's great that she wears them when she's sleeping and doesn't have to hassle with foggyness and discomfort during the day. I wasn't sure if this would work because in the beginning it was so hard to take them out, but now she's an old pro at it and we're all very happy. Naturally, the conventional opthamologist was against this, but I don't know why.
In Reply to: Nighttime lenses posted by Reader on March 22, 2003 at 08:50:02:
You are lucky that it worked for your daughter. I tried the same lenses and though I loved the results, I was unable to continue the therapy. I did scratch my cornea twice within a 6 month period and then decided to move to another state. There simply wouldn't have been the support I needed from an eye doctor standpoint to continue them.
I was sorry about it because they did seem to work.
~~~8>
In Reply to: Nighttime lenses posted by Reader on March 22, 2003 at 08:50:02:
Thanks, Reader.
There ARE options out there that some conventional physicians do not know about.
Namaste`
Walt
In Reply to: Re: Nighttime lenses posted by labrat on March 22, 2003 at 16:18:40:
I'm sorry you had to discontinue them, but I wonder if it would be worth while for you to look on the internet for a behavioral optomitrist in your area and start again? You might feel better if you look into it and explain to the new doc what happened before - maybe there is a way to prevent the cornea scratching.
However, I believe there is an age limit - I'm not sure if they recommend this as a brace for people who are over the age that this kind of eye development occurs. But people can still use them as nighttime contact lenses, even if they no longer work as a brace. I know skiiers use them sometimes.
In Reply to: Re: To Labrat re Nighttime lenses posted by Reader on March 23, 2003 at 21:07:16:
Unfortunatley, there isn't anyone here I'd trust.
I was using them for simple myopia. I don't think there's an age limit so much as a "condition" limit - what is wrong with your vision exactly.
My eyes are done developing (I'm 42) and we could see where they needed to go to be closer to 20:20. The lenses I tried are called Ortho-K. I used 2 separate pairs with progressively thicker centers to flatten my cornea while correcting my vision. I used them during the day, not at night. (Though I could have slept with them, it would not have served my needs as well as wearing them during the day. Eventually, I would have used them at night, and gone lens free during the day.) The problem was, I have dry eyes, and because of that, the pressure from the lens needed to flatten the cornea was enough to cause scratches.
:-(
It's okay though, I still have my trusty old gas permeables to keep me seeing everything!!!
thanks,
~~~8>
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