My eyes! My eyes!

[lesbiassparrow]

I decided to try a new contact lens solution at the recommendation of a doctor (they mentioned it was the best one). Clearly Contact. MOSES ON A STICK I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS IN THAT STUFF BUT DESPITE SAYING I DIDN'T NEED TO RINSE MY CONTACTS AFTER USING IT THE PAIN WAS EXCRUCIATING. I surprised you didn't hear the screams across North America.

Today I have had red eyes all day and couldn't go to hockey skating class because I couldn't put in contacts and I hate skating with glasses on.

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Holy bat dren, that sounds more than awful. Please to be calling your doctor to let him/her know, that is just wrong wrong wrong that it affected you that way. And yes, I do go from zero to over-protective in a nano-second. *hugs*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Of course, I made it worse by then thinking that if I rinsed them out I could wear them. Not such a smart idea. There was a lot of shrieking. And boy are contacts hard to get out when your eye is all scrunched up!

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Meep and ack. I finally had to stop wearing them myself, I went from brave to squicked out. ;)

[ancarett]

Oh, yuck! Yuck, yuck, yuck, yuck, YUCK! Tear your doctor a new one!

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It was horrible. At least my eyes don't look like I've been on a 5 day bender any longer.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Agh. That sucks. :/

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

There was a lot of loudly expressed anguish. And then I had to go to an annual review looking like I'd been on the world's longest bender.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

I have a similar reaction to Optfree products, and I have no idea why. What could they be putting in freaking saline solution that would make my eyes so unhappy?

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. And it's so hard to contacts out when your eyes are all scrunched up and determined not to let you near them EVER AGAIN.

[brainchild129.livejournal.com]

Could be worse though. Could be because you handled your contacts after chopping fresh hot peppers.

THAT is a pain you will never forget. My eyes were in AGONY, and it took ages just to be able to get them out because I couldn't even open my eyes long enough to do so.

[wistfulmemory.livejournal.com]

Ugg. I'm sorry. :( I've experienced that before, and it's never fun. I hope your eyes start feeling better soon,

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

They're still a little pink, but at least the red that made me look like I'd been drinking for a week has faded!

[mistress-mab.livejournal.com]

That's what you get for STUFFING THINGS IN YOUR EYEBALLS.

Silly rabbit.

And I'm not just saying that because I have beady eyes and look better in glasses although I desperately want to wear contacts. I'm not. So.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

My eyes were all 'WTF, WOMAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US?' and then I had to go to work looking an alcoholic whose coming off a drink sodden week. FUN TIMES.

[rheanna27.livejournal.com]

Aiiiieee!

Years ago, when I first started wearing contacts, they came with three solutions -- first you rubbed a cleaning solution on them, then you soaked them in an acid solution for ten minutes (they actually called it that - an 'acid solution') and then you left them in a neutralising solution overnight. When I got them, my optician told me, "Everyone forgets to put them in the neutralising solution. Once."

Well, I forgot -- once. The experience of putting acid-soaked contact lenses in your eyes in not quickly forgotten.

So, deep sympathy. It's the most awful feeling, when your eyes are on fire and all you can think is, 'Out! Out! Get them OUT!'

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

Your eyes are saying something like 'Go away! I'm not letting your fingers near me again.'. All while you leap around and shriek. Fun times.

[lage-nom-ai.livejournal.com]

This sounds oddly like the time I tried to use a neti pot.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

Some things you try only once....

[meret.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better soon! Would some over the counter moisturizing ointment help? *hugs*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

My eyes seem to be back to normal now. They still don't quite trust me, though.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Eeek! I used to have terrible reactions when I first started wearing contacts, in the end they said to just use the all in one solution. At first, for some reason, they wanted to keep experimenting because they wanted me to have I think it's cleaning solution and a rinsing one? as seperate which was apparently considered the better option. But the all in one solution was the only one where my eyes didn't start stinging like hell

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

All in one is the only way to go. I am never trying anything else ever again despite the LIES of doctors.

[lovinlorne.livejournal.com]

Note to self - If the need for full time glasses should ever occur, put vanity on back burner and get glasses.

Actually that would never happen, because I have a problem with people coming at my eyes anyway. LOL

I'm sorry you had to go through that. I can recall using a few "Doctor recommended" items myself that backfired oh so woefully and I'm glad you're doing better.

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

It's even worse when you inflict pain on yourself. My eyes glare at me in the morning now. DOCTOR, YOU MADE MY EYES MISTRUST ME.