Friar Bijou wrote:
gbaji wrote:
Seriously though, the eye thing is a pain. It's like randomly, one day my right eye can't focus on distant objects. Then the next day it's my left. When using both, I can focus, but I'm sure it's creating some eye strain as a result. Nothing compared to your eye issues Bijou, but still.
How's your blood sugar? If I'm remembering your age right you're right in the target zone for onset for diabetic retinopathy; a thing you don't want to fa
rt around with.
Hmmm... They do that eye picture thingie every year and compare it to previous years, and the doctor said nothing had changed last time (which was a good 6 months after I first started having issues), so that's probably not it. I'm assuming if it was bad enough for me to notice the effect, they should be able to see the blood clots in there somewhere. But who knows? Diabetes doesn't run in my family, and I've never had symptoms (the usual ones anyway). But I also don't think I've ever had my blood sugar checked. Suppose it wouldn't hurt to buy a cheapo meter at the drug store. Better safe than sorry!
I'm reasonably certain it's age affecting the elasticity in my eyes. Two years ago, the doctor made a point of being surprised at how well my eyes were maintaining their elasticity, but warned me that I should expect that to change. Last year, the doctor did say that my elasticity was down. Also, I just rummaged around in my bathroom cabinet and for some unknown reason still have packaging for my contacts going back a few years and it wasn't just last year that the prescription changed. 4 years ago, I had -6.0 in the left eye, and -5.75 in the right. 3 years ago, they switched to both eyes with -5.5, which remained unchanged for two years (which I remember being nice because I didn't have to remember which box was which). This last visit, they changed to -5.5 in the left, and -5.25 in the right.
So yeah. Just strange stuff happening. It's not a huge huge deal, but it's definitely something I'll ask about when I see the doctor in January. I don't think it's gotten
worse this year. In fact, I think the prescription change may have helped (a bit, but not 100% obviously), since I recall last year having some contacts that I'd put in and literally couldn't see in one eye with. Oddly, I'd pull out another one (from the same box) and I could see. That's also why he switched me from monthlies to dailies. He believed that they were accumulating <something>, which was causing some kind of irritation (he pointed out some redness under the bottom lids), which may also be contributing to whatever the heck is going on. Back then though, it was consistent. A given lens would just make my vision in that eye blurry every day until I replaced it. Now, it changes day to day. Part of me suspects that my eyes aren't perfectly aligned with the prescription I've got, and aren't as good at adjusting themselves as they used to, and there's enough manufacturing variation in each lens (not sure how precise the tolerances on contact lenses are), that one lens out of a set may provide good vision and the next, not so much. The common factor is that it seems to vary based on changing out lenses. But maybe it's wishful thinking to blame the lenses...?