Dry Eye After an Infectoin

[jenshaw772]

Recently I had a conreal abrasion in my left eye.  I was prescribed Gentamiacin (SP).  Well I used that and it ended up making my eye even worse.  So much so that a new doctor gave me steriod drops and then a antibiotic cream to use at night plus Systane drops.  Well I used that for a fwe weeks and still nothing.  So then he prescibed my an even stronger antibiotic drop and more non-preservative moisture drops.  During all of this he also said that I had developed an infectoin.  So now after almost a month the infectoin is gone and so is the redness.  But when i try to put a contact in my eye turns red after about 6-8 hours.  When can I go back to my contact?  I only have vision in my left eye.  I got hit with a bottle rocket in my right eye and lost vision.  I cannot wear my glasses and safely drive and take care of my kids.  They make me dizzy and I don't see as well along with headaches.  I am so over this eye mess.  Pleas help.  I almost feel like the doctors here and not helping me.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

That's a no brainer. Sure if the eye doesn't see well then the lens on that side can be made with no prescriptive power (plano) or one this is similiar in thickness to the "good eye"  (balanced lens). Discuss your problem with your ophthalmologist, by the way be sure you are seeing an Eye MD and not a non-MD optometrist.

JCH MD

[jenshaw772]

ok one last question.  one of the main issues I have with my glasses are that my prescription is so strong for my left eye that they tell me they have to put the same prescription on my right eye to have my glasses balanced.  For more than 10 years now I have not worn a prescription on my right eye and even though I only see light and have a littler peripheral when you go from no prescription to like a -12 that is what is making me dizzy and feeling off balanced.  Is there anyway to have my glasses without a prescription on that right eye?  That way I would feel more comfortable wearing glasses.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

No, don't fool yourself with one eye. Wearing conacts is more dangerous for everything than glasses. Some of the risks you assume with contacts that you con't have with glasses: infected corneal ulcer, corneal neovascularization, corneal warpage (irregular astigmatism, and they are more expensive.

Its self evident. It means you can't wear contacts comfortably like now. If can be due to development of problems like dry eye, changes in the shape of the eye, and for reasons we don't know. about one in 5 of patients we do lasik on have lost their ability to wear contacts. More common in women due to hormonal effects.

No surgery would be better than glasses.

JH MD

[jenshaw772]

I understand that they are safer from injury.  But wearing a contact is safer for my daily life.  Driving, ealking down stairs, etc.....

What constitutes losing your ability to wear contacts?  How does that happen? And how would I know for sure that is the case?

Would anykind of surgery be a better kind of alternative for me to correct the vision in my one good eye?

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

1. A one eyed person in my opinion should not wear contacts.
2. You have lost your ability to wear contacts. It happens----- often. To continue to wear contacts risks a serious eye infection.
3. Get use to glasses they are safer and they provide protection to your eye from injuries.

JCH MD