r/Orthokeratology

I’m about 4 months into ortho-k and my halos are so bad I have a hard time driving at night, it’s hard watch tv in low light, and can’t watch movies in theaters as once I’m 20 feet from the screen most of the screen just has a haze over it. I’m on my third set of lenses I’m 20/20 in my right eye and 20/30 in my left due to a little bit of astigmatism that hasn’t gone away but upon requesting another follow up my doctor said they would try to adjust my left lens again and she hopes once it’s gone the haloing will go away is this possible? I’m doubtful as I have haloing in both eyes and only one lens is getting adjusted. I really want ortho-k to work as I spent $1500 just to get started is it unrealistic to not have halo’s?

Recently I heard about Ortho-K and am planning to visit a doctor for my son, who is 16 years old and currently has -3.5 vision in both eyes.

I heard that Ortho-K can permanently reverse eyesight so that glasses may not be needed anymore. Is that true? If so, how long does it usually take to improve/correct the vision? Also, are there any side effects or risks with this treatment?

Also, does anyone know of any experienced/good doctors for Ortho-K in or around Frisco, Texas? Please share recommendations (DM is also fine). Thank you!

Woke up with some pain in my left eye and immediately took my lenses out. I think I may have rubbed my eye in my sleep or something of the sort. Was a bit panicked because I wasn't sure if my lenses warped due to what had happened. Is there any way to tell? I'm not sure if I'm just paranoid or if they do look different.

Hello, I have been using Ortho K for almost a year. Ever sice i started there was the feeling od scratching in my eyes. The doc was saying that it Can be unconforteable at first, but after around a month it was still Bad. The doc gave me new lenses that were smaller and still it was scratching my eyes. He says my eyes are perfect for this and that the lenses fit perfect. About a 2 months from the change or was event worse je gave me new ones that were bigger and i ak with them till now. They are still Bad and scratching, je told me i have a little dry eye but even LOT od the lubrication drops dont help. My eyes Hurts the whole night and i Can feel the pain through the day. If your have aby augestions o would love them. PS. Sory for bad english, not my native language

Hello, did you have a lower prescription after the washout period ? Did your cornea keratometry became lower after interrupting orthok ?

I'm pretty young (16) and have been wearing Ortho-K since I was 8. My astigmatism is so bad that I'm terrified to drive at night. I can barely the lines on the road especially on busy streets with lots of cars or areas with bad lighting and can't see the lines at all when I get too close to a car in front. My vision is perfectly fine during the day. I never paid attention to my night vision much before because I only started driving at night a few months ago. Another thing to note is that I've had my current contacts for over a year and am getting new ones soon. Could it be related to my contacts wearing down? Is there a way to fix this or will I have to struggle with this forever?

I'm very concerned about this since I will be driving myself to and from school every day next year and during the winter, especially, I will be driving to school in the dark and sometimes driving back in the dark. I do have very bad eyesight genetics as both of my parents and 3/4 grandparents have extremely bad nearsightedness.

Hello! I'll be traveling on my first long-haul flight to China, and I have a few concerns/questions about how to properly store my lenses, as I won't be wearing them during the flight itself

• I'll be placing the larger cleansing and soaking solution bottles in my checked baggage, but how should I properly store the lenses themselves? I was planning on using the pill-shaped bottle that's normally provided with the overnight soaking solution, and then putting it in either a Ziploc bag or an actual pill-bottle to prevent spillage. But I've also heard horror stories of the change in air pressure/temperature causing the lenses to stick to the case and break; is that a worry I should be concerned about?
• I've also heard that hydrogen peroxide isn't allowed in carry-on bags, but the soaking solution I'm currently using is 3% peroxide. Is that something I should declare at TSA, or would it be better to just put the lenses in a cleansing solution and wait until I arrive in China to change out the solutions?
• Is there anything in particular that I should keep note of and prepare before my flight, other than the two points listed above?

Thank you so much for the advice!

Hi everyone, I‘ve only recently started using Ortho-K lenses about a month ago. I‘ve gone to all of my check-ups and, according to my optometrist, everything looks great and my eyes adjusted incredibly fast.

I knew going into this that Ortho-K lenses aren’t really as comfortable as regular daily or monthly contact lenses. So it wasn’t really a surprise when the first night was quite uncomfortable. My eyes seemed to adjust a little after that and the first week went by fine.

However, since then I keep having really bad nights where I can’t sleep. I keep my eyes closed but the lenses are so uncomfortable, especially when I feel myself drifting off to sleep and having involuntary eye movements, that I can’t seem to sleep for more than an hour at a time. More often than not I get up after two hours and try to clean them and put them in again, just to see if that helps at all. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn’t.

What could cause this uncomfortableness and sometimes even pain? According to the optometrist everything looks as it should. I don’t have dry eyes and the lenses fit perfectly. I’m seriously considering quitting because I can’t continue barely sleeping only to forego using my glasses.

Thank you in advance!

In the past, I had issues with my lenses not fitting correctly and giving me scratches in my eye. After some time, it was fine and I wore a different pair of lenses again. Last year, for some reason, I got another pair and then another pair. I kept the 'second' and 'third' pair, but I was told that the 'third' pair was better, so I wore those for about a year. Now, for a couple of months, my vision has been uneven and one eye is better than the other. A month or so ago, I noticed that in one eye my vision is better far away but poor up close, and then the other eye has good up-close vision but not far-away vision.

At my last eye doctor appointment, I got tested for glasses and they said my up-close vision was different in one eye, but they didn't say anything about it and I didn't notice it. Now I'm realizing that the eye that has slightly worse up-close vision feels loose when I wear my contact lenses, or like something is in my eye, and I'm concerned that there might be scratches. Should I switch to my second pair of lenses for the time being instead of the ones that are most recent? My eye doctor said I can wear either one of them, except one of them is stronger (I forgot which), or is my up-close vision just bad right now, not from the lenses?

I want to add that I don't think I stored my second lenses correctly. I stored them how I would for a pair that I normally would wear everyday, but I haven't touched them since April of last year. It was stupid of me not to check them. Is it normal to have to change lenses so much? I thought you were supposed to keep them for years.

i’ve been on ortho K since I was about 10 and am now 19 (F). Have never really had any major issues and my eyes have responded really well to the lenses. Also note I have quite a tight pair of lenses (according to my ophthalmologist) for best results.
The other day I woke up with the worst migraine of my life- I had gone to bed with a slight headache and noticed my eyes hurt somewhat when I put the contacts in but attributed it to the headache. When I woke with the migraine, the pain seemed to be coming from the contacts(/my eyes?), which I quickly took out. The pain persisted in the right eye and right hemisphere of head, but ceased in the left eye immediately. I then proceeded to have standard migrainey symptoms for the next 48-72ish hours (fun!). I’ve just now put my contacts back in after skipping them for 2 nights, and noticed my headache started back up immediately. I’m going to wait at least a few more nights before I try again (frankly because I’m scared and don’t want to be bedridden for another 2 days), but I was just wondering if anyone else has experienced OrthoK related migraines? they may be totally unrelated but I otherwise have no idea what it could be. I’m also really bad at doing my monthly cleanses so… could be that potench. Sorry for the long post!

(also prescription info: roughly -2.25 in one eye and -2.50 in the other… very ballpark but one eye is .25 worse than the other)