What's your experience with sclerals?
Hi everyone,
I'm just wondering what your experience with scleral lenses is? I have used RGPs for 20 years and piggyback for the past 4.
I'd been wondering about sclerals, but believe it or not, in the UK, it's really hard to find someone competent or willing to fit them.
I'm fortunate enough to have contacts abroad, and i got a trial and got them fitted. 1400 smackaroonies later, they appear to be great. I barely feel them. Just obviously, if I wear them for long hours, there is some redness, but I've seen on this subreddit that this is faily common, so no issues there. I noticed one thing, though: when i got them fitted, I went to this place, which is the oldest in the country, and among the oldest in Europe still in business, with very competent staff. I'm not going to say where, for privacy, but this is just to say they are very competent and their name is a guarantee. They have fitted the lenses and tried with an ungraduated set. They say I can just see about 6/6, 10/10, 20/20 whichever you prefer to use. They tried putting grades on, but they made the vision worse for some reason, so they left me with lenses with no grades. I can see great. Actually, the images and ahapes are even more defined than with RGPs, possibly because aclerals don't move. However, i notice that i struggle to read at a distance a bit more as opposed to when I wear RGPs. Has anyone else experienced the same thing?