Worried corneal ulcer didn't heal right?

[juju88816]

Back at the end of January, I took out my contacts and felt pain in my right eye. This was a Monday night. Next morning felt like something was in my eye. Come Thursday, I went to my student health center and was told it was a corneal abrasion. Given a prescription for eye drops. When I went to pick them up Friday, there was some sort of mixup and I actually didn't get the drops till Saturday.

By that Friday night, my eye had been better but Saturday morning I woke up and the pain was much worse than it had been. I could see, it wasn't red but it hurt. The pain subsided maybe 3 hours later and I took my antibiotic drops finally 4x  a day like the health center said. I tried to find an eye doctor but none were open. Come Wednesday, it was better but I finally got an eye appt. He said he could still see an abrasion and recommended the drops for 4 more days, along with Refresh PM at night as he thought it was an RCE. My eye eventually got better and after several weeks I was able to tolerate contacts fine and I still use the ointment at night.

However I went to see my own eye doctor last week as that eye has been blurrier ever since. He said he could see a small scar on my cornea, consistent with an ulcer not just an abrasion. He said it appeared to have been healed and diagnosed a slight astigmatism. Told me I was fine to use contacts and to keep up with the ointment and that apart from having a scar I'll be fine.

I'm just worried that maybe that eye isn't fine. It wasn't treated how an ulcer normally is, with drops almost every hour because I had no idea it was an ulcer. Is there a chance that infection hasn't cleared right or that there will be vision loss or some other damage down the line?

[JohnHaganMD]

No no chance the area is infected now. That is not difficult diagnosis to make. Wear your lens carefully as the chance of recurrence is significant