surprised

I went along to my optometrist today wondering if I was wasting bother out time but my vision was bad and seemed to have perhaps got a little worse plus and it was giving me mild headaches so I wanted to see if anything could be done.

He confirmed that the prescription for my eye had changed - the amount of correction needed had almost halved! I was quiet surprised to know it ha changed this much, but it can only be good.

The bad news is that even with this change I still could not see very clearly at all. It seems that even with the cornea in the right shape the internal optics of the cornea can disuse the light so that vision still sucks - which is why I had only just noticed a fairly big change in lens prescription. As far as I can work out that's what is happening to me. I've no idea if this can be expected to slightly improve over time or if it means that no matter what the surface of the cornea does I will not get good vision. It would be nice to know.

My optometrist volunteered to ring my surgeon which I am grateful for. I didn't tell my optometrist this but I had tried to ring him a few times myself but he hadn't returned my calls. Maybe an optometrist will have better luck getting his attention....

3 months later

My operation was on the 4th of December. Tomorrow will be the 4th of March about 3 months later. By now really I was expecting my vision to be probably close to 9/9 and my eye to be comfortable. Instead my vision is probably not quiet 6/9 and I continue to need drugs for my eye to stop inflammation, mucus and bad things in general. Even with drugs its not really comfortable.

I've been on maxidex a week and a half longer then I was originally supposed to after two unsuccessful attempts to change to FML. Tomorrow I change to a combination of voltarin(sp?) and FML drops. It would have been today but the chemist had to get the drops in from Sydney. My eye pressure was check yesterday by the optometrist and is normal- one of the many complications of steroid drops like maxdidex is that it can get dangerously high. Dr Maloof still doesn't want me to stay on it any longer then necessary which sounds like good sense.

Maybe its just taking longer then expected and it will still heal up - at least so that it is more comfortable. It's hard not to feel a little discouraged however. I think maybe I will give Dr Maloof a ring today and see if I shouldn't visit him and see what’s going on with the eye.

My eye does appear to have stabilised enough for me to be able to get a lens for my glasses prescribed. Hopefully I will get it this week, which should be a nice improvement in vision for me.