[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by valkyrie
How are your eyes doing now? Better, I hope.

Thanks for asking. Here is the long answer. I am doing so much better now. The pain is gone thank goodness. I am still sensitive to light, but I don't feel like lightning is striking me. My vision has improved since I started using a steroid eye drop five weeks ago, but everything looks different: a little blurry and not quite in focus. The doctors told me that my vision will never be the same, but they are trying to get my eyes to a place where my vision isn't a problem. In other words, I am grateful that I can see and read without a cornea transplant. I might need reading glasses or a stronger prescription which is fine with me.

So far I have had almost 10 months of treatments, and it might take another year until my corneas settle down. These drops have really taken their toll on my corneas. I have an appointment with the cornea specialist next Tuesday so we'll see what I can report. Hopefully, I will be finished with two of my four eye drops. I now use a total of 7 drops in each eye daily. This is a big improvement over the 56 drops I had to use daily during the first week.

I bought cute glasses in November. I look like a completely different person wearing glasses than I did in contacts. It took a while, but I have lost my self-consciousness and vanity about wearing glasses. The optometrist will change my lenses in my glasses if I need a new prescription.