My eyes aren't in pain and nothing feels wrong. Plan on visiting the optometrist in the next week. But in the meantime, perhaps just to soothe my panicked thinking process...
Opened up some contacts this morning and found there were mold or some sort of fungal patches floating around in the solution with the lenses. Definitely a fungus, I can see the mycelium.
I have NEVER seen this before in any of my lenses.
I've worn monthly contacts about once/twice a month for the past 9 years and treated all my lenses the same way. What gives?
What should be thrown away? If 1 pair has this fungus, are all my other pairs infected?
I've got 2 clears and 3 colored monthlies.
Is there a way my optometrist can take a culture from my eye to find out if I am infected asymptomatically?
And furthermore.. how does mold even BEGIN to form in a sterile solution??? Especially when I just purchased and started using the B+L peroxide cleaning solution?
And finally a sciencey- question: would storing contact lenses in the refrigerator help protect against bacterial/fungal growth?
Submitted October 27, 2014 at 05:33AM by rayjbady http://ift.tt/1DR2zHC optometry
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