I'm a 23 year old male, and had this constant ghosting in the right eye for around a year. The ghosting image is above the actual image, not as clear and less opaque; but the original image remains clear. Like what I've read from other posts in the forum, the ghosting is also better when I wake up, and deteriorates as the day goes on (the ghosting image becomes sharper and more opaque. But this condition is much better if I wear soft lenses.
I remember when I first experienced this ghosting effect. It was sudden, and I'm not sure what the causes are.
For a month and a half prior to this, I have been working at a consulting firm where I have to use a laptop a lot (I was wearing glasses at the time, so this could not have been caused by contact lense overwear).
Now, a day or two before the incident, I took some medicine for my asthma+allergy. I have never been prescribed with so many pills to take at once and I don't know if they could have caused this ghosting. I will list them nonetheless:
1. Prednisolone 5 mg: 10 tablets
2. Singulair 10 mg: 14 tablets.
3. Clarinase 24 hour: 6 tablets.
4. Arcoxia 20mg: 10 tablets for my wrist injury
The opthalmic surgeons that I went to see didn't know much about drugs that I took, but decided to take a corneal topography and a bunch of other tests. Turns out that I have top and bottom part had orange areas, meaning that my cornea is not smooth. He explained that the ghosting goes away after I squint because I would use the middle of my cornea, the smooth part, not the top or bottom part. He concluded that these were the causes of my ghosting, after having ruled out all the other conditions, such as cataract.
I also have a high astigmatism in both eyes, more on the right eye, which is about 2.0. My shortsightedness is about 5.0 in both eyes.
The only solution that he gave me was that I should start wearing HARD contact lenses. And I did, and this gives me NO ghosting at all. A somewhat good solution, but this is barely practical. I find them very uncomfortable and difficult to use them in normal daily life.
A consultation with another opthalmic surgeon concluded differently, that I just overworked my eyes and that nothing could be done. The eye muscles were the problem. But if they were really my eye muscles that caused the ghosting, why then, does ghosting disappear as soon as I pop on my hard contacts? He had no answer to that.
He said that I could try using LASIK surgery to remove my astigmatism altogether and this may remove ghosting altogether (as my cornea is thick enough to do this lasik surgery).
Who is right? And what should I do? As I've been typing this, my ghosting worsens already! Please advise!
James