The dangers of long term contact lens wearing.
Hi,
Just a heads up to all you long term contact lens wearers; I have been wearing contact lenses for the past 25 years and a couple of months ago my eyes developed a condition known as ‘keratitis’. Keratitis is when your cornea is infected & scratched from either dirty contact lenses or over wearing of contact lenses.
In my case, it was over wearing of contact lenses resulting in a scratched cornea in both eyes and my vision was very blurred for almost two weeks. Fortunately, my vision was completely restored after using antibiotic eyedrops for 3 weeks. My eye doctor has given me the go ahead to wear contact lenses again but from now on, I only wear contacts when I play sports and when I’m not playing sports, I’m very happy to wear glasses.
True, laser eye surgery is an option to get rid of the glasses & contacts but I actually don’t mind wearing glasses and wearing contacts less frequently. I’m just curious about the experience of other people that have had contact lens related keratitis like I did.
Cheers,
Cyclops
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wearing contact lenses is sometimes hard and you always need to clean it for hygiene “‘-