I'm 21yrs old. Left eye recently gone blurry with glasses and disposable contacts.?

Question

I was fed up with the irratation after a month with the contacts (cheap disposable ones- apprently I have a football like eyeball). After going to the eye doc yesterday (currently in another country) for a new pair of glasses, i realized that no matter what the man did, the vision and blur could not be corrected in my left eye. He thinks its lazy eye, but lazy eye suppose to be evident from childhood!@!@! Surely the eye exams i've been going to for the past 10-12 years would have taken notice of this. The eye is no longer red, but dry, I have been applying eye drops, it helps some (very little), but the left eye will eventually go completly blurry again, and It's as if i'm not even wearing the glasses or contacts. I am planning on seeing a real doctor in a few days, but I would rather see an american doctor once I get back to the states, but god knows that'll be expensive, so I was hoping to get some opinions and suggestions as to what this may be.

Answer 1

It sounds like your eye is either very dry, or the contact lens is contaminated, or the lens is no longer wearable.  If you are careful to handle the lens with CLEAN hands, and you are only using it for one day (disposable), it should be fine for the whole day.  All lenses lose their ability to retain moisture as they age, so the resulting vision is then blurry and uncomfortable.  I have found that the most important element in contact lens wearing is cleanliness: make sure your hands are clean, and never reuse your solution - always use fresh for rinsing, soaking, and storage.  Your eye is now irritated, and its vision will be affected no matter what you do, so give it a chance to return to normal (don't put any lenses in for awhile).  Then try them again, bearing in mind the above.  If the lens and/or your solution are not clean, that alone can cause you to have the difficulty you're having.

Answer 2

if your eye has just recently gone blurry, maybe youe eye needs a "break", maybe the contacts that you were using weren't helping, try upgrading them to a better quality. There is a possibilty that you just scrached your eye. give it a couple days to heal then if problems still occur then go see your eye doctor as planned.

Answer 3

"Surely the eye exams i've been going to for the past 10-12 years would have taken notice of this. "

You'd think so: either the eyes had good corrected acuites, or it should have been remarked, at least asking "have you always had a poor left eye ?"

The assumption has to be that the eye has got worse, rather than that every previous practioner has simply seen a lazy eye and not remarked on it... (though I have known that happen...)

Any chance of contacting the previous examiner, and asking what the recorded acuities were then?

A corneal problem sufficent to drop the vision as you describe should be easy to detect on a slit-lamp microscope with fluorescein stain.  And that tear drops make any sort of difference suggests there's a corneal involvement...

(unless there's more than one problem... There's no rule that you can only have one problem at a time, unfortunately.)

The redness and irritation may have caused nothing more than the examination, not the main blur.

Sorry, there are just too many possibilites to differentiate between.