Contacts help?!
Question: I've had contacts for about a month and I have Acuvue Oasys. After I put them in they felt great but then my right eye became very iritated (Not burning or anything like I had something on my eyeball that wouldn't come off.) So I went to the bathroom washed it with water, and after that put some of my solution on it to clean it. I was okay for about five minutes. After it quit being irritated in my right eye when I kept looking out of the corner of my right eye it was very blurry, and even when I turned my head it was blurry. I didn't have anything on it, and blinked for about five minutes but it didn't do anything. I cleaned it the night before and my prescription is only about a month old so it's not that either. Was my eye maybe too wet there? What could've caused it? And how can I make it quit if it hapens again? Also would eye drops make that go away, or just make the contact fall out?
Answers: I've had contacts for about a month and I have Acuvue Oasys. After I put them in they felt great but then my right eye became very iritated (Not burning or anything like I had something on my eyeball that wouldn't come off.) So I went to the bathroom washed it with water, and after that put some of my solution on it to clean it. I was okay for about five minutes. After it quit being irritated in my right eye when I kept looking out of the corner of my right eye it was very blurry, and even when I turned my head it was blurry. I didn't have anything on it, and blinked for about five minutes but it didn't do anything. I cleaned it the night before and my prescription is only about a month old so it's not that either. Was my eye maybe too wet there? What could've caused it? And how can I make it quit if it hapens again? Also would eye drops make that go away, or just make the contact fall out?
The irritation may have been caused by something fairly minor, like getting something in your eye (i.e. hair, fuzz, etc). Every once in a while I get that feeling, too. My doctor told me that if you feel like there is something in your eye, try using eye drops first. If that doesn't work, you can take the lens out, rinse it, and pop it back in--but that should be kind of a last resort. I'm not sure what caused the bluriness, but it may have to something to do with the fact that you used water to clean your lens. You should not ever use water on a contact lens, mostly because of alll the bacteria in water. In the future, if you need to reinsert a lens, use regular contact solution to clean it.
Eyedrops would help, but make sure you get the kind that are supposed to be used with contacts.