I went to the optometrist back in September to get a new contact lens prescription. As I had moved since the last time I'd had a check-up, I had all my files faxed over to the franchise that's closer to my house.
You can typically tell that they don't even bother to look at your file when they ask for answers that are perfectly transparent just by looking at your records. For example, "How long have you been wearing glasses?"
"That's a shame," is not an appropriate response that that answer, by the way. I'm perfectly knowledgable of the fact that I'm blind as a bat.
Anyhoo, the new doc had me try some monthly disposable lenses. When I went back two weeks later for a fitting evaluation I told him that it felt like the lenses were trying to fall out of my eyes and were shifting around a lot. He told me that I would be hard-pressed to get a better fit on a soft lens because my eye is so steep.
I found that hard to believe. I've been wearing soft lenses for *counts on fingers* close to ten years and have never had a problem. I had always worn the ones you keep for a year. I tried the dailies a couple of times and they always seemed to dry my eyes out. I expressed that again to the doc and he asked if I had been using drops.
Drops? Of course not. Who spends $4 on an itty bitty bottle of saline when I never needed it before?
He told me to use the drops.
Fine, so here I am with lenses that are causing eye strain. I spent $30 on the box of lenses, and you know you can't really return them for a refund once they've been opened. I figured I'd use this box and if I still had issues, go back and complain when done.
Well, today I called to complain. The biggest problem with these lenses is that while I can see things that are at a distance clearly, stuff that's close up is sort of out of focus. I'm nearsided, so that's ass-backwards. No, I don't need bifocals. Everything is peachy-keen in my glasses, so it's definately the contacts.
I just hate it when you tell a doctor that something is wrong and they don't believe you.
Posted by Tiffany at December 20, 2004 12:36 PM