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Originally Posted by SueLynn
Thanks for your reply, Knotlob, and I know the companies must test their products first. I was surprised and alarmed when I found out my daughter's eyes were having problems, and she's only 27. She wore Acuvue 2 before Oasys and her eyes never had any problems during those years. She never sleeps with her contacts in and is careful with lens care. I believe her optometrist was puzzled by the cysts, but I'll speak with her again about it. It sounds like something she should see an ophthalmologist about.
I've been trying to play detective with my own eyes, but though I haven't been sensitive to anything before, and don't have any environmental allergies that I know of, I'm aware that anyone could develop sensitivities at some point in their life. Plus there could be changes in my tears/chemistry having recently gone through menopause.
I wouldn't have suspected the lenses themselves except I've read *so many* complaints about Oasys when I googled it, the same conjunctivitis type symptoms I've had since August, and a number of people with much more serious problems than that. I was hard pressed to find many complaints about other lenses, including other Acuvue lenses. It just makes you wonder. |
Yes, indeed. There may be a problem in some people wearing some types of silicone hydrogel lenses. I read a paper on the Internet, where an eye doctor was explaining the problems he had had with a client.
Eventually he solved the problem with some substitution exercises.
He switched the client to Clear Care peroxide system to eliminate the possibility of solution preservative allergies/sensitivities.
Then he switched the client to Daily lenses and the eye problems were resolved. Daily lenses are seldom, if ever, silicone hydrogel at present, so going to daily lenses tested indirectly sensitivity to the silicone hydrogel issue.
He said from now on he would immediately switch a patient to Clear Care to eliminate the preservative sensitivity issue and work right away on the mechanical issues of lens fit.
I guess once he had established the patient was OK with daily lenses he would be able to try different silicone hydrogel lenses to see if any were suitable.
And, yes, I think the cysts your daughter has are something that an eye doctor should probably take a look at.
Recently a new eye doctor suggested I switch from Yearly Lenses to Daily Acuvue Johnson & Johnson lenses. When I declined that suggestion, she suggested 2 weekly Acuvue Oasys lenses and then the Biofinity Monthly lenses, Obviously she was not concerned about silicone hydrogel problems with the Oasys lenses (here in Germany).
knotlob