I don't post a lot here, mostly lurk but something happened to me this week that honestly I wouldn't have thought possible beforehand. I was infected by a rare eye amoeba that eats corneal tissue.
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It started out at the beginning of the week, in which I woke up with pink eye. I went to a walk in clinic and they gave me antibiotics. That night, my eye felt like it was melting in the socket. I took some Tylenol and tried to sleep through it. I woke up the next day, blind in my right eye. I got a ride to the eye doctor and after 4 people looked at it for about an hour they told me to go see a specialist.
Long story and more than 500 dollars in eyedrops short, apparently while having a shower in my contacts, my eye was infected with this amoeba. Now I face never regaining 20/20 vision without a cornea transplant and I have to take eye drops literally every 30 mins for days to ensure that my cornea doesn't dissolve. I'm not depressed or looking for sympathy or anything, really more interested in warning others because I know lots of people that were like me that wear contacts everywhere.
While I know it's rare, it fucking sucks, it's painful and I cannot see well enough to drive. Please if you are reading this and you wear contacts, a little bit of care can keep you from having the same issues. Thanks for reading.
Acanthamoeba Keratitis: What Contact Lens Wearers Need to Know
If you wear contacts, here are ways to avoid getting this serious eye infection.
It started out at the beginning of the week, in which I woke up with pink eye. I went to a walk in clinic and they gave me antibiotics. That night, my eye felt like it was melting in the socket. I took some Tylenol and tried to sleep through it. I woke up the next day, blind in my right eye. I got a ride to the eye doctor and after 4 people looked at it for about an hour they told me to go see a specialist.
Long story and more than 500 dollars in eyedrops short, apparently while having a shower in my contacts, my eye was infected with this amoeba. Now I face never regaining 20/20 vision without a cornea transplant and I have to take eye drops literally every 30 mins for days to ensure that my cornea doesn't dissolve. I'm not depressed or looking for sympathy or anything, really more interested in warning others because I know lots of people that were like me that wear contacts everywhere.
While I know it's rare, it fucking sucks, it's painful and I cannot see well enough to drive. Please if you are reading this and you wear contacts, a little bit of care can keep you from having the same issues. Thanks for reading.
