1-Day Acuvue TruEye contact lenses

[IanJ]

15 years wow...
Did you get those lenses in the UK or the States? I wonder are they available in Ireland. I will ask at my next appointment. My Optician did say they were coming available soon but i don't know how soon that is

These lens are available in the UK.

Thursday Update:-
Today was as yesterday, no stinging in my eyes all day, just my right eye getting a little sore. Overall, and again, better overall for my eyes. I'm back to the optician Monday for my 1-week review.

On a side-note, I went on the hunt for lacrimal gland problems......I reall want to get to the bottom of why my right eye only is affected. After digging and reading reports/studies etc I happened on a few prominent eye docs at the likes of Harvard.......so I popped of a couple of cold emails. You never know! The sudden on-set 3 years ago of my lacrimal gland under-performing just keeps coming back into my head. If it was a machine I was diagnosing I'd say "blockage" every time. How can it be perfect for 40 years then all of a sudden over a 5 minute period be sore and dry and stay that way ever since, and whilst my left eye stays perfect. I keep dreaming that one day some doc will pop me a couple of pills and say "there, it'll clear up in a couple of days". Ahhhhhhh, wish.............:-)

Ian.

[Judy]

Yes wow, 15 years without contacts, IanJ, and now you are having some fun! Can't wait for these to become available in the US...

[acarol]

15 years wow...
Did you get those lenses in the UK or the States? I wonder are they available in Ireland. I will ask at my next appointment. My Optician did say they were coming available soon but i don't know how soon that is

[IanJ]

Hi,

I haven't worn contacts in 15 yrs, so have nothing really to compare, however:-

My sis wears Acuvue lens, but not same as mine. If she closes here eyes for any period of time, or sleeps with her lens in she says her lens stick to the inside of her lids.

And also, a guy at work has recently started wearing same lens as me and he says he's fallen asleep all night with the lens in and his eyes opened fine in the morning. However, he does say that from time to time later in the day his eyes get tired and has to take out the lens.

Ian.

[acarol]

I wear acuvue moist occassionally - i find them ok, they still dry out though. Would love to try the silicone hydrogel.

[mflores22]

Glad to hear the new contacts are working out for you!

I was wondering if you have ever worn Acuvue Oasys, and if you could compare the two contacts. Thanks a bunch and good luck with the new contacts!

[IanJ]

Hi all,

I've never been one for half measures unfortunately.......so I get the rough with the smooth all at once... :-)

So, today wasn't so good. I got pain in my right eye as per usual, but on a good note no stinging.....usually the whole lot comes at once and I'm offline for a while. A round of eye drops and a wee rest from the PC and I was back to normal again. So, overall still much better than normal.

What I did notice was that with the eye pain (the lacrimal defficient eye) also gave me slightly blurred vision as it does without the lens in. I wasn't really expecting that. Also, I thought that the lens would have acted more like a bandage and would have protected the eye from such pain, by locking in some tears behind the lens.I don't really know what actually happens there to tell you the truth.
I've been saying this for years, I'd really like to know what goes on with my right eye to see what causes such dull pain. My eye can get reall dry and not have the pain, then sometimes it does. No doc has answered that question.

Anyways, by the time I drove homefrom work my eyes were well rested so we went shopping......again, as in the first few days it really was a revelation to walk about a supermarket and enjoy the evening without too much thought to my eyes.

On a side-note I was talking to a guy at work. He had his head in his palms at lunchtime....I asked what was wrong and he said he'd had to take one of his contacts out and when he put it back in his eye was gritty and sore. He was contemplating going home as he didn't have his spectacles with him and if he took out his lens he wouldn't see properly.......so, I donated 1 vial of artificials tears and he was ready to rock in 5 minutes,albeit I had to administer the drops for him!
I told him why I took eye drops and he was shocked at DES....he'd never heard of it and did wonder why I was always reaching for my mirror and putting in eye drops myself.

Ian.

[acarol]

Maybe your are leaving the contacts in too long. Sometimes contacts can act like a bandage and its when you take them out thats when the pain and dryness hits.

[Judy]

So glad to hear this, Ian. Sounds like you are truly giving your eyes a test with the amount of time you are using these contacts! Oops, I just read your PS...

[IanJ]

Another great day today!

My eyes got a little red around the peripheral of the whites at one point today, but were whiter towards the middle. I put in some eye drops and it eased off. It was stuffier at work today and about 1.5 deg warmer than yesterday, however my eyes coped really well. By 4:30pm and time to go home my eyes were feeling quite fresh.
It was pouring with rain driving home and the windscreen began to steam up......and usually I dread putting on the vent heater in the car to clear it, but today I didn't feel much at all in my eyes.

My right eye got a little blurred on & off today, and that's usually due to the tear film being inconsistent across the eye.....and I get a lot of stinging and pain with it. However, today there was virtually no stinging and no pain. I put this down to the inconsistent tear film as normal but across the top of the lens and under which the cornea is well wetted and protected....thus no real pain.

I'm nearly 11hrs in today so far but will be keeping them in until bedtime.

I haven't felt this good about my eyes in over 3 years. At times it's almost like being normal again!

However, tomorrow is another day.......we'll see what happens.

Ian.

UPDATE:-
Took my lens out at 9pm.......whoa!, it hit me.....got very dry eyes. Not sure why?

[Judy]

Wow, Ian. Things are certainly sounding pretty darn good! I googled for these contacts and found out they have not been released yet to the United States but are supposed to be sometime this fall. I will be on the lookout and will be looking for your next update. Wow, white eyes, how cool is that? I've only worn contacts twice in the last two years; once for a few hours on a cruise at a nice dinner and once to a Christmas party here in Melbourne FL for about four hours. OUCH. Very red eyes during and afterwards, both times. So this is sounding very interesting. Hope you have taken your contacts out and are giving your eyes a rest!

[IanJ]

IanJ,
I'm excited to hear how your eyes are doing with the contacts! Keep us updated. I'm thinking of trying these for special occasions, not work as I'm in front of a computer for a minimum of nine hours a day during the week.
Judy

Did per chance I just have a good day today?....or are the lens really helping me?.......hard to tell, but some 11 hrs after putting them in this morning I'm still wearing them as I type! Supposed to be only 6hrs today (meant to build up to it) but I wasn't coming off a good thing.

Btw, I sat in front of a PC all day today at work, some 8hrs on & off as usual. Here's some things I noticed:-

1. Still needed to put in eye-drops two or three times today, but just for my right eye.....it's lacrimal gland defficient so does need a top-up every now and then. However, I do notice that on application it takes a while to get my vision clear......it seems the drops on the lens take a wee while to clear properly compared to direct on the cornea.

2. Some slight right eye pain, but nothing like I usually get. I did notice that my right eye wasn't as photophobic as usual. I usually grimace a lot when something bright (or white)pops up on the screen, but today it wasn't near as bad.

3. Did get some small stinging at one or two points throughout the day, but I felt it was definitely coming from the towards the edges of my eyes,and NOT from the centre where the lens sat. I looked in a mirros and my eyes were red a bit.....but towards and underneath the lens it was definitely white. The lens is a bout 1mm bigger than the blue part of my eye so I could see the whiteness under it. Some drops helped.

4. The drive home is always a tester. My eyes are usually "knackered"so end up yawning like hell whilst sat in traffiv having to wet them up to get rid of the grittyness/pain.Not so today. A couple of yawns as I set off got me all the way home.

5. On arriving home wife reckons the white's of my eyes are white and not pink/red as is normal after a days work.

6. At only a -2.00D I shouldn't need reading glasses, but I found I do. To be fair I notice this with my glasses on, it seems that eye drops, or overly watery eyes seems to affect vision. My theory is that the tears don't sit even across the eye, probably less at the centre. I thought this might NOT happen with lens, but apparently it does. Maybe my theory is way off, but I notice that when my eyes are having a VERY good day that my nearsight is better. I had bought a pair of 1.00 reading glasses, but I think it'stoo much.Reckon I need 0.5 or 0.75. However the 1.00's got me out of a hole when I needed to read very small print.

Am I jumping to conclusions?.......we'll see.....tomorrow is another day. Hopefully somebody else can try these lens in order to compare. However, as per my eye doc "these lens will act like a bandage, they are very suitable for those with dry eyes".

Ian.

[Judy]

IanJ,

I'm excited to hear how your eyes are doing with the contacts! Keep us updated. I'm thinking of trying these for special occasions, not work as I'm in front of a computer for a minimum of nine hours a day during the week.

Judy

[EllMitcho]

great stuff Ian - keep the updates coming - v interesting

[acarol]

I wonder are these available in Ireland?