I got blepharitis from wearing my contact lenses for too long. I gave up wearing them as the optician said I had red eye. Changed into using varifocals. I have to keep an eye on the blepharitis and I have a microwavable heat pad to soften the crusty bits in amongst your eyelashes and then either children's no tears shampoo on a cotton bud or you can buy special blepharitis cleanser on a cotton pad.
It does get better if you treat it but can return with central heating and dry atmospheres.
I would never have given up wearing my lenses I loved them but I wasn't working and didn't have to use the computer so they went
I had laser eye surgery in the early 00s…for the first two years I felt similarly superhuman without anything but a little dryness. I’m sorry to report that did not last though and my eyeballs slowly began to revert and I was back in corrective lenses full time in three years albeit at a vastly reduced prescription. Fast forward two decades and it’s like I never did it at all and I have all the same issues with presbyopia that most older people develop. I could have had a revision, but who knows how many times that is safe. Given it only lasted a couple of years, I am leaving well enough alone.
Three years isn’t enough, is it? For the hassle and expense. I have been predicted a good run without the need for glasses (unless it’s tiny tiny writing) but time will tell!
I got blepharitis from wearing my contact lenses for too long. I gave up wearing them as the optician said I had red eye. Changed into using varifocals. I have to keep an eye on the blepharitis and I have a microwavable heat pad to soften the crusty bits in amongst your eyelashes and then either children's no tears shampoo on a cotton bud or you can buy special blepharitis cleanser on a cotton pad.
It does get better if you treat it but can return with central heating and dry atmospheres.
I would never have given up wearing my lenses I loved them but I wasn't working and didn't have to use the computer so they went
Oh my God hi Mum! 🤣 I didn’t realise that was you. Must be my eyesight failing…
I’ve bought some of that special wash! It’s quite good. I like it more than my eye makeup remover, almost. As a little freshening after-cleanse!
I had laser eye surgery in the early 00s…for the first two years I felt similarly superhuman without anything but a little dryness. I’m sorry to report that did not last though and my eyeballs slowly began to revert and I was back in corrective lenses full time in three years albeit at a vastly reduced prescription. Fast forward two decades and it’s like I never did it at all and I have all the same issues with presbyopia that most older people develop. I could have had a revision, but who knows how many times that is safe. Given it only lasted a couple of years, I am leaving well enough alone.
Three years isn’t enough, is it? For the hassle and expense. I have been predicted a good run without the need for glasses (unless it’s tiny tiny writing) but time will tell!