Hi,and happy 4th to you all....
I had some scratches on my cornea after my initial surgery and prior to getting my platinum weight. While my eye still does not blink all the way even with the weight, I would need a heavier weight, then my eye lid would sag. I can close it all the way when i sleep and it feels good. i still use drops throughout the day and lacrilube at night only. I was told my eye dr. that the while the contact lense was an option, he did like it, because you can still get dust between it and your eye, causing more damage could be done to my cornea. Since i have had the weight (7 months now), I have had no issues with cornea damage, and the scratches that were there have healed.
I also have sensitivity to the sun in my left eye and wear sunglasses whenever i am outside. Since the AN surgery my eyesight in my left eye has suffered I have double vision when i use both eyes and blurriness when i only use my left eye. So I now have eye glasses with a prism on the left lense, which corrects the double vision.
I agree with Tony about the way he keeps his eye clean, i follow a similar regimen. And yes its a pain, but i don't want anything else to happen to my eye. it has been through enough!
Denise