Here i am a 25 year old guy, healthy, fit (ish)
I have worn contact lenses for about 4 years now with no major difficulties. I buy the extended wear lenses that you put in on, say the 1st of the month and forget about them till the beginnning of the next month, they are designed so that you can sleep with them in for 1 month. Great invention that allows your eyes to breath!
Anyway, i visitted my optician (TESCO) about 4 months ago and my prescription had changed quite dramatically. For those who know how that vision difficiency works they will know that it is mesured in 0.25 variations. my right eye was and has been for the last 6 years -2.50. Now just to put this prescription into perspective a -2.50 prescription means that you can not read a car number plate that is parked in front of you at a set of traffic lights, so it is quite bad.
But 4 months ago TESCO changed my prescription to -4.75 (9 stages of increase) and i have been wearing them for 4 months and they never even told me that they had changed my prescription. about 3 months ago i started having chronic....and i mean CHRONIC mingranes. Was on Morphene to try dim the pain, lost a lot of days work due to this and ever since my vision on my right eye (the one which they changed lenses on) has been making me see "cloudy" vision) so i made an appointment last week to go back in, eventually realising that something wasnt right. Went in to see my optician, well an optician as i have had 5 different opticians in my last 5 visits to TESCO's optician and she checked my eyes and her face said it all...... there had been an "administration error" and i was given the wrong prescription, there was no change to my vision and thus should not have been given new strenghth lenses.
I asked about the cloudyness and she explained that its probably due to the wrong lens strength so i asked why after she issued me with a new set of correct strength lenses hadn't my cloudy vision improved......"very strange" she said. "come back in on saturday" so she could do a complete vision check.
I went in on Saturday last week to be told i have a CATERACT! in my right eye and need immediate surgery to have the natural lense of my eye removed by surgical intervention and have an artificial lens implanted into my eye......i am RAGING and i intend on getting the full medical facts and if they are to blame for my migranes and need for surgery i will take them to the cleaners!
there are risks in every surgery but the most prominant risk, though still a small % is that i can loose my eyesight completely thus rendering me unable to work at all, no driving liscence, no life!
I will keep you posted on my progress and inform you of findings, meanwhile make sure you wear sunglasses in bright conditions, report any trauma to the eye immediately to your doctor and do some research into the causes of the condition as im not looking forward to having someone scalpol my eye whilst i am AWAKE and im sure you are the same.
