New RGP's

[Dave Dale]

After wearing soft perm lenses for over a year now with good results I was sent to see Mr Morgan at Sunderland Eye Infirmary as my local hospital did not have provision to fit contact lenses and the soft perms were costing me a fortune from the high street!

Anyway, Mr Morgan was great and agreed that I could been seen within the hospitals contact lens clinic. I have since been fitted with some standrad corneal RGP's..god I never realised how small these were after years of daily disposibles and soft perms!

Anyway I have two main queries for teh forum.
1) I have been given a bottle of cleaner, conditioning soloution and a bottle of saline. I understand that I use the cleaner first to clean the lenses and then rinse/store in the conditioning solution...but it was not mentioned what the saline is for..is this just used to flush/rewet teh lens during wear like I would with my soft perm all in one solution?

2) The vison quality I am acheiveing is far worse than that with the soft perms..is this the norm?

Thanks once again folks and keep up the fight!

Dave.

[Rob Armstrong]

Hi Dave.

As you've already stated, you use the cleaner solution to clean the lenses...

BUT then you use the saline to rinse them (thoroughly - its better to use too much than too little) before soaking them in the conditioning solution.

Use fresh conditioning solution to wet them prior to insertion.

Hope that helps.

Rob