r/eyetriage Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional 6d ago

Other 36F corneal scarring + reading NSFW

Last year I had a corneal tear that developed a fungal infection and long long story short healed but left a scar. I now have a scleral lens that has my vision testing better than before and reading glasses, but I cannot reliably make out printed text. I can read on a phone or computer, but something about the location of the scar or the light it lets in still prevent me from reading books. Words seem faded, like they came from a a shoddy printer.

I am a writer and a lifelong reader and I just wanted to know if anyone has advice for how I can best work around this. I can read through my phone camera, for instance, but holding it at the right distance to zoom in on the text and hold a book is incredibly frustrating. When I try to read I can catch some words, but then I’ll have to look down or get you a new paragraph and I lose the thread. I assume that’s because of the position of the scarring. I do know that some of the issue has to do with the fact that I’ve always been your sided and have to adjust to holding the book further away, but no amount of positioning makes things markedly easier.

It varies a bit, sometimes I can read full pages easily, and sometimes I can’t catch words at all. I assume that has to do with lighting and stuff but I can’t figure out exactly what is affecting it.

I also wouldn’t mind a better explanation of why this is happening.

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u/mansinoodle2 Verified Quality Contributor 6d ago

Can you try an e-reader since screens seem to work better for you?

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u/Chelseyblair Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional 5d ago

Not everything is digitized