Vesicles on eyes?

[PetRescue]

I just had an annual eye exam a few days ago. The doctor told me that 'vesicles' are growing on my eyes. I am not really sure what she really meant. She told me that it is because I over-wore my contact lenses and won't be able to wear them if it gets worse, so I need to reduce the hours I wear them everyday. She said that there is no cure for it, but is this true? Is there anything I can do to make them disappear? I thought my eyes are red because I am on the computer a lot and haven't had enough sleep lately. Can someone please tell me what I can do to help my eyes back to normal?

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

NO reducing the number of hours you wear contacts does not guarentee that the blood vessels with stop growing out over the eye. There are many causes as I said and overwhere is just one.

Your best bet is to stop wearing them and wear glasses or consider refractive surgery.

Even if you switched to daily wear contacts the problem could still persist or worsen AND you would need to go to see the contact lens fitter every 4 months to check the blood vessels for growth, no more seeing the CTL fitter once every year or two.

20% of our lasik surgery are patients, mostly female, that have lost the ability to wear contacts.

JCH MD

[PetRescue]

Thank you so much for your response.
I thought my doctor said "vessels", too, but when I mentioned it to my husband, he thought she meant "vesicles"....

If I reduce the number of hours I wear contact lenses, are these 'vessels' going to disappear? I do wear glasses when I am at home (especially right after I wake up in the morning until I have to go out to somewhere). But when I go to work, I tend to wear the contact lenses for many hours...

My eye doctor also recommended me to wear one-day disposable contact lenses everyday, but considering the price of the contact lenses, I cannot afford to wear it everyday. However, I got a prescription for that in case of emergency (like losing or damaging my 2-week disposable contact lenses, etc.).

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

You need to talk to this "doctor" to get clarification but I think it likely you were told that you had "vessels" on your eye. Most likely corneal surface neovacularization due to contact lens over-where, or allergy, or improper wearing/cleaning, or damaged contact or badly fitting contacts or you may have lost the ability to wear contacts.

This are fine blood vessels that will stop growing and collapse if you stop wearing contacts but if you continue they get bigger and move out further toward the center of the pupil which can affect vision and make lasik much more difficult to do.

Confirm it is "vessels on the cornea" that he/she saw.  Consider going to glasses or lasik. If these are not acceptable you may need daily disposable contacts and reduce your wearing time to just when you're "out in public".

JCH MD