Has My Eye Become Unsuitable for Soft Lenses???

I've been wearing contact lenes for 20 years. For the past 10 years, I've
wearing Durasoft 3 contact lenses with the same prescription (Dia 14.5, BC
8.6). Although I have monovision with bad myopia (-12.5...lost left vision
long time ago), my corrected vision has been fine. Recently, I noticed that
my corrected vision was often so unfocused and blurry (I couldn't read small
letters well). So, I got a new Durasoft 3 lens. Still my vision was
unfocused and blurry although a few blinks sometimes got me back to better
vision. I even tried the same type of Durasoft with a higher power (-13.5),
but to my surprise, my corrected vision didn't improve...still unfocused
just like the vision with a -12.5 lens. It seemed like soft lenses couldn't
correct my vision any more.

So, has my eye become unsuitable for soft lenses after 20 years? Has the
geometry of my eye suddenly changed and made my prescription obsolete (it
that possible)? Have Durasoft lenses somehow become unfit for my eye? Or,
something else? I believe my uncorrect vision remains the same. If it got
worse, I'd notice. Without wearing a lens, I have no problem reading tiniest
letters.

I just want to get a sense of what's happening before seeing a doc...

"Mike Tyner" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Jonathan Fidelis" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote
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>> So, has my eye become unsuitable for soft lenses after 20 years?
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> It helps so much if you tell us your age.

I'm 40. After 20 years of wearing soft lenses, I still feel comfortable with
them.

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> You didn't say whether the "small letters" were close up or far away.
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When they are far, I can't read them well with the current lens. When my eye
happens to be wet. I see much better.

you may need reading glasses over your contacts due to presbyopia. You
can stick to glasses, get bifocals

You could be getting many things hapenning. Could be corneal exhaustion
syndrome, oedema, poor tear film, changed tear lipids or proteins. You
need to see your optom and possibly get fitted with new lenses like
Focus N&D, PureVision, Acuvue Oasys or RGP.

dr grant