Went in for the followup, after wearing the trial pair of lenses for 9 days. Even though the right lens is still sitting slightly off-center, we decided to go ahead with the custom pair of lenses, since the time required to do another round of trial lenses just seems like too much bother. I can still see halos in both eyes at night (large pupils mean the correction zone is visible when dilated) but during the day, especially outdoors, my vision is fantastic.
There is still some corneal staining, particularly in the left eye, and we’re going to move to using the storage solution to lubricate my eye prior to wear, and again before removal. The staining means that my vision is subjectively not fantastic today, but if we can eliminate or reduce it through more extensive use of lubrication, I should have pretty good vision. Today, my measured vision after removing the contacts was 20/16, which is pretty darn good, even with the staining.
When discussing whether to do another round of trial lenses, the doctor commented that “We don’t expect to get perfect vision with OOK… we usually prescribe for 20/Happy, and you’re already unusually good.” I guess I may be overly picky, but I’m a bit less enthused about the whole prospect right now. We’ll see how the custom lenses are. The convenience factor of being able to see during the day is great, but I pay for it by having to be meticulous about wear.
The next step is to (again) let my eyes revert to normal. Then we’ll do a series of technical measurements on the shape of my eye and how well it reverts, and hopefully in about 2 weeks, the custom lenses will arrive and I’ll start wearing them.
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