Our offices have patients leave soft contact lens out for 2-3 days before making pre-operative measurements and gas permeable rigid contacts for 2 weeks and do two sets of measurements to be sure they agree. If they can't get good measurements best to postpone the surgery till readings are clear.
how long before they can get good measurements. Is this occurance common ?
why does this happen where you can not get good measurements? What measurements are they not getting clear.
Before surgery, had glasses for both eyes. After left cataract surgery, righ eye used a temporary soft contact for 4 days before a measurement for right cataract surgery. This is when they could not get good meas.. So waiting 5 days for a new meas. seems like contact for 5 days should have no effect on measurement, could it ?