I just went to the eye doctor this morning and got some drops + switched from monthly to daily disposables for it. Can anyone tell me their experiances with it? I read somewhere that I should try to switch to opti-free solution and I think my old eye doctor told me that in middle school but I've been using the generic brands for several years now with out any problems until last winter/this semester.
and I don't want to go to glasses full time because its summer time and I'm too cheap/will definately lose perscription sunglasses.

4/25/2006 5:16:33 PM

I don't have a lens allergy, but I am very sensitive to the preservatives that the put the lenses in. Unlike most people, who think a new contact is the most comfortable thing, my contacts drive me crazy for about a week (irritated, red, popping out) after I change them and get increasingly comfortable until they're on the cusp of falling apart. Solutions I've liked:

-The one with the little basket/cage that bubbles. You do have to leave them in there six hours though. Learned the hard way.
-The Renu with MoistureLoc that was just taken off the shelves. Man, I was ready to cry. I was finally free of the dang little cage thing.
-I've been using whatever else CVS had that had added Moisture in it, and it's doing okay. I think it may be the opti-free.

4/25/2006 10:34:56 PM

I'm allergic to renu solutions. They burn the ever living fuck out of my eyes and I cant even stand to put contacts in when using them. I use opti-free, aquify (currently out of distribution due to a contamination a few months back some employee was a dumbass) or I use a Amo brand Complete moisture solution. I just use anything besides renu that I can get for free by the case from the eye doctors office where my mom works. Try switching solutions. It cant hurt anything.......just stay away from renu moisture loc .......dont want any fungus haha

4/25/2006 10:36:26 PM

Alcon has some incredibly good eye drops for dry eyes. Perhaps that would work...

And yes--new contacts are the best thing ever. They're up there with new blades in the Mach3Turbo.

4/25/2006 11:24:30 PM

I developed one many years ago-- i ended up switching to contacts that I could actually wear for longer, but that breathed better. I also changed the type of drop I used because the all in one stuff I was using irritated the infection that had developed because of the allergy. Keeping your lenses out for a while and giving your eyes a bit of a break... even if it's just over night for about a week... will help your eyes out a lot.

4/25/2006 11:36:19 PM

have you heard about the eye fungus in the renu moisture lock contact solutions

might want to check that out

4/25/2006 11:43:34 PM

What's the problem with your eyes and the contacts? I had trouble with mine and my eye doc just told me to take flax seed oil to help with tear production. I also switched to some contacts that let more air in. Extreme O2 I think. They're awesome.

4/25/2006 11:45:51 PM

I think I'm going to try the Alcon solution if the dailys don't work out, because they are going to be $texas (high perscription). Maybe ones that breath better would help because the ones I was wearing were ultra thick. The thing is though, my eyes are starting to bother me even if I wear my glasses for a week straight. My renu rewetting drops sting when I put them in while wearing contacts but I'm going to buy some Alcon tomorrow to try.

Hmmm thanks for your imput. The doctor said I caught mine in the really early stages so luckily I don't have an infection yet. I go back friday so hopefully this can get squared away by then (even more hopefully before )


^she said my tear ducts were making deposits on my contact surface and it was irritating my eyelid or something like that. Basically she could see the irritation/little bumps forming on my inner eye lid (she flipped my eye lid up and inspected it).

Basically it burns like a mother fucker when I put them in/take them out/put moisture drops in/put solution (even water) in my eye before I put contacts in to try to help/randodmly when I'm wearing them it feels like I have something in my eye (even without contacts in I'll feel this sometimes and it hurts so I have to rub my eye and blinking hurts-and its usually not an eyelash or other foreign body)

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 11:57 PM. Reason : more]

4/25/2006 11:52:02 PM

I had trouble towards the end of high-school when i changed from weekly to bi-weekly disposables and talked to my eye doc about, he tried me on different brands of lenses as apparently they fit your eye differently so sometimes different ones work for different people. Particuarly if you just changed the style of lens this might be it. I tried a couple different ones and settled on Sureview now Acuview 2.

Quote :

"have you heard about the eye fungus in the renu moisture lock contact solutions"

http://biz.yahoo.com/pz/060418/97559.html

4/26/2006 9:33:21 AM

i tried a contact other than acuvue once and was allergic. dont recall the name.

4/26/2006 9:36:17 AM

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"she said my tear ducts were making deposits on my contact surface and it was irritating my eyelid or something like that. Basically she could see the irritation/little bumps forming on my inner eye lid (she flipped my eye lid up and inspected it)."

i had that same problem back in high school and i had to wear my glasses for a month...worst month ever. mine was due to not taking them out as much as i should and cleaning them properly versus an actual allergy.

4/26/2006 9:39:01 AM

I wear them for a pretty long time on the days (8-14ish hours normally) I wear them but I take them out to clean them every morning before I put them in (I never sleep in them). I really liked the acuvue I wore for the most part (years ago) but I've switched and have been using a cheaper one for the past couple years (can't remember name, its in a goldish flat box and c-something) which is really thick. I still had some issues and the doctor told me to switch to opti-free but I switched back to generic years ago and haven't had any majors issues with it until now.

^Maybe I'm wearing them too long, that would make sense.

Pretty sure I don't have that eye fungus lol but that would be super scary.

4/26/2006 10:27:26 AM

Well, I heard something on NPR about a certain Bausch & Lomb solution causing an eye fungus that messes people up pretty bad.

4/26/2006 10:46:25 AM

^ I read the full news article, the deal with that is there's been an unusually high number of the fungus cases in the US lately, most but not all, used RENU with moisture lock. We're talking under 200 people total.

Nothing's been said or is apparently amiss with any other RENU products, or other B&L things.

Most stores have voluntarily pulled that product, some have used it as an excuse to pull all B&L and place out only their brand (I dont agree with that but I dont happen to shop at the stores named that did that).

B&L is supposedly heavilly looking into it to see if there was a source of contamination possibly anywhere along the line.

If you use that particular product, swap to another, but dont freak the hell out. The % of people who use the product and get the fungus is still quite low.

That said,
I hate that cage shit, and found out later that it was part of why I had so many problems early on with contacts. I switched around a few times and still like and will still use plain old RENU (never had the moisture lock stuff), assuming they still sell it (havent worn contacts in a while).

That cage shit was the most awful thing ever though, and that once very 6 weeks thing you had to put into it only made my eyes go nuts a few days afterwards no matter how closely I followed the directions etc.

Oh, and to the person who was about to cry because they pulled MoistureLoc- B&Ls site claims the withdrawl is temporarily. Presumably they'll eventually re-release it with the product fixed. Maybe theres some good news for ya.

[Edited on April 26, 2006 at 11:31 AM. Reason : .]

4/26/2006 11:29:21 AM

my situation seems similar to yours, burning to everliving fuck whenever i'd put my contacts in and such, it stung like a motherfucker for at least 10-15 minutes.

i switched to the opti-free solution and haven't had a problem since, i just wash my new contacts out really REALLY well, as if there's even a bit of the stuff they come in on them it still stings to high heaven.

try switching solutions first?

4/26/2006 11:53:02 AM

^ the doctor already put me on drops n weekly contacts to try until I go back in friday. The drops bothered me this morning and my eyes felt weird for about an hour and the new contacts still stung. I'm going to try that tomorrow and see if that helps (good idea!)

Now they just feel dry but with a weird coating and I'm getting a headache

4/26/2006 12:54:32 PM

i had this problem about 4.5yrs ago when i wore contacts -- apparently, i developed an allergy to the protein my body was producing to coat my contacts

(sounds very similar to what you have...the resulting reaction was painful tiny bumps on the inside of my eyelids which would scratch at my eye even with my contacts out causing everything to be red and painful)

the idea behind the daily contacts (which my eye doctor put me in as well, but only after the reaction would clear up) is that there's no protein on them so each day you start with a fresh slate -- i used to clean my contacts well at night (w/ opti-free or renu, can't remember), didn't sleep it them, etc but it just wasn't possible for me to clean them well enough to get rid of all of the protein that was causing the allergic reaction

the dailies worked pretty well, at least for awhile, but i would imagine they're more expensive and i think i still had some issues

my ultimate solution was lasik 4yrs ago, no more problems

4/27/2006 10:59:41 AM

I wear Night & Day in one eye and Acuvue Advance in the other... I change them every 2 weeks, sleep in them, etc. I use Aosept to clean them every other week that I don't change them... in between I use Aquify Longlasting drops... I have no problems, nor have I since I was 12. I've worn many types and brands of lenses and tried many types of solutions and drops...

4/27/2006 10:24:18 PM

with the people whose eyes burn when they insert their contacts.

have you ever rinsed off the lenses with saline before use? it works wonders.

4/27/2006 11:17:36 PM

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"The causes of GPC include contact allergy and perhaps immune system reactions. Typically, GPC results from: exposure to chemicals and preservatives in contact lens solutions, the plastic material itself, pollens and other airborne allergens, or can occur secondarily to a bacterial infection. Hay fever is considered to be a primary precipitatory factor, as are chemical preservatives in lens care products and eye drops. Additionally, overwear and mis-use of contact lenses, especially worn, damaged or soiled lenses can cause GPC."

Apparently when I went 2-3 months in one pair of monthly contacts because I ran out and was waiting to go back to the eye doctor for an appt (I knew I needed my perscription upped), that might have caused it (and I generally wore mine for anywhere from 10-16hours or 99% of the time). I went to a different eye doctor after the other told me if the regime she had me on didn't work out I was doomed to never wear them again (1 type of eye drops 2x day and dailly disposable contacts). Now I have 2 different eye drops 3x day with glasses full time (no contacts at all) and I go back in 3 weeks to see if I can even start to try to see if my eyes will tolerate contacts again. I went ahead and bought new glasses and some sunglasses with my new perscription and to add insult to wearing glasses full time, the lady who I had fix my old ones (they are black plastic emo frames which I really bought to hide my thick lenses ) because they were warped messed up my lenses when she was heating them up. So don't have the lady at Sam's Club (off 401 right before the I-40 ramp) readjust your glasses because you too may have fucked up lenses that give you headaches and mess up your vision.

5/8/2006 12:37:28 AM