Eye appointment

[kyrielle]

Great. Good news: my prescription hasn't changed much at all, I don't need new glasses.

Bad news: I wasted money, I think. Should've skipped the contact-lens-evaluation appointment. Instead of a half hour, the damn thing took over two hours, and the net result at the end was that I still had not been able to get the temporary ones they give you into my eye. I have to go back on Wednesday so that the doctor can try to put them in (because by the time we'd established that yes it is uncomfortable going in and no, I cannot stop myself from flinching, even if I am trying, my eye was bloody well irritated enough for one day).

They even tried anesthetic eye drop. Okay, now, instead of feeling wrong in ways I can't describe, it felt vaguely wrong in ways I can't describe and fucking cold. Ugh. Nasty. Nasty, nasty. And my eye went back to "wrong in ways I can't describe" and aching when it wore off, too. DOUBLE nasty.

They told me this would be $90 when I made the appointment. $40 more than just the regular exam. They neglected to tell me that severe astigmatism could raise the price, and they neglected to look at my FUCKING chart for my damned last visit to them, which would have told them I fall into that category. So after they bug the shit out of my eye with no results, they charge me $150.

I go back tomorrow to get my eyes dilated (they don't do that with contact-lens first-timers, and I can see why, my poor eye has had enough abuse for one day), and Wednesday to let the doctor try to put the damn things in.

Right now, I'm very seriously considering cancelling the Wednesday appointment. It's not worth this hell. "You get used to it." I dunno. How the fuck d'you get used to something you can't even accomplish?

What caused me to schedule it at all, and will probably get me in, is that those assholes have $150 of my money. I hate to walk away from that.

If Wednesday goes badly, shove it all, I will. It's not worth it.

And it doesn't help that the stupid aide who was helping me today spent all her time trying to convince me that it was easy.

While I was failing over and over again.

I finally told her to knock that off, because she was just making me feel like a pathetic failure, as well as an annoyed person with a sore eye.

I've always liked this place just fine before, but this visit? Ugh.

I dunno how those of you with contact lenses do it, either. The things (and these were soft!) hurt. They're wrong. I don't even have a word for the sensation, exactly. Ugh ugh ugh.

Comments

[pheon.livejournal.com]

For years after I first got my contacts, I was able to put them in directly. Somewhere along the way, I started flinching so I had to put them in the bottom of the eye and then slide them up into place. Which is what I do now.

When I first got them, they made me extremely sensitive to light. I was told that that would eventually go away. It hasn't. It's gotten slightly better in the past 40 years but it hasn't gone away.

Good luck.

[kyrielle]

*grins* Thank you for the warning/explanations. We'll see. I'll try it their way Wednesday...maybe Ican make it through this after all.

[dormouse-in-tea.livejournal.com]

Oh, YUCK. I'll go smite them for you when I'm on my rampage, 'kay?

I was like your dad. First time going in, no problem. ^_^

Two months later, flinching so bad I gave the darn things up.

I happen to agree that it is wrong wrong wrong, but they are worth a shot, if only to see yourself for once. I hope Wed goes well for you.

Just keep in mind that your eyes don't normally look like they've been sanded!

*big hug*

[kyrielle]

Hehehe. No, they don't. I don't know what they look like without glasses, but I could clearly see (with glasses, both times) the different before and after attempting the contacts.

>.

[lanir.livejournal.com]

I tried contacts once a few years back. They were the soft ones. For about a month I would try to wear 'em and I took forever to get them in. Sometimes I just couldn't. Then, since I was using the soft ones, somewhere along the way I flinched and they tore. It really is neat to see everything you're looking at without seeing the edges of your glasses and for whatever reason things seemed more clear to me with them. But after they tore... I had so had enough. :)