I have two different medical conditions affecting my vision. I’ll start off with the less important(?) one.
My right eye is affected by Coats Disease. It’s a retina disease. From what I understand they caught it relatively late and its the reason why my vision is poor in my right eye.
My vision in my right eye is weirdly poor though. My right eye sees things much more clearly, but it affectively works as an extended peripheral for my left eye. The best way I can describe my vision loss is that its kinda like looking through blinds that are constantly moving.
I’ve never been fully satisfied with the explanation I was given just because I remember from a young age noticing how my right eye was off. My doctor ignored that and said that wouldn’t be possible because the time frame of the disease would mean I would be blind in that eye by now. Also because my doctor would talk to me about how the treatments I did would help get my vision back. Maybe it’s possible the clarity I have in my right eye is because of the treatments? but it definitely did nothing for the blind-like limited view.
Both my eyes are affected by Keratoconus which is a disease affecting the cornea. My corneas are weak and are very cone shaped (which is bad). My left eye is more affected than my right eye. The process for treating this was very annoying and it got delayed a bunch during COVID because it wasn’t seen as necessary.
The treatment done aimed to prevent my cornea’s from getting worse. The procedure is called Corneal Cross-Linking. Two things that interested me about this procedure (much later, at the time I just kinda let things happen to me): corneal health involves collagen and the procedure involves Riboflavin/Vitamin B2. Now these could be different from the dietary stuff, especially the collagen, but I thought it was interesting that the procedure involved:
- Vitamin B (riboflavin) eye drop medicine is applied to the cornea for about 30 minutes.
I wonder if condition can be cause by lack of Vitamin B in a diet.
Anyways. After the cross-linking, the vision correction I got was contact lenses. Their a special type of lens called Scleral Lenses, They’re used for a variety of eye conditions.
Overall I’m happier with the quality of life after getting them (the first day I wore them I was in shock from how dirty our house actually was), I still have issues with glare even when things look ok. Glare goes away with sunglasses and stuff. I’ve experimented with other kinds of lens to help with glare such as pink lenses that are used for individuals with light sensitivity. Those sometimes help with light glare.
The other issue I run into with my contacts is fit and irritation. The two kind of go hand in hand because if the fit is really good (which is usually early on with a new prescription) then irritation affects my vision less, but if the fit is bad I’m really wary of irritating my eyes.
The man issue that comes about from my eyes getting irritated is my contacts getting blurry. They will usually got a white protein build up in them affectively blinding me.