Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: michele, question about contact lens

I guess it could be possible although I have never encountered the problem at my office before. Its more likely that your cornea has different measurements than your right, these are called k readings and they determine the base curve and diameter of contact lens you need. You are wearing mono vision, one eye distance and one eye near. I am going to assume your left eye is the near contact and that means it will never be as clear as your right contact. You may also have a little bit of astigmatism in the left eye which would cause the vision to be less than great.

Monovision is a trade off, your vision will not be 100% all the time, it just isn't possible. Don't worry about one eye being better than the other, most people are like that, just as one arm is stronger than the other. What counts if you can see well enough with both eyes together. You will probably never see as clearly with monovision contacts as you will with progressive eye glass lenses, its a trade off.

Just because they are approved to be slept in for 30 days doesn't mean you have to. We use the night and day lenses a lot for people with really dry eyes and have them take them out every night but it allows them to wear contacts comfortably when they otherwise wouldn't be able to because of dry eyes.

Do mention your issues to the doctor and see what he says, they may be able to tweak the contact power a little. They do also come in 2 base curves so depending on your k readings they may be able to change the curve as well. Good luck and let me know what they say!

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