Some years ago, when I first switched to disposable lense, I
used Baush and Lomb at first. No problem at all. But along the way,
I run out of lenses and needed to restock. I got persuaded into
using Acuvue, saying that it has higher water content lah blah blah
blah... somemore still gave me a pair of colour lense free.
Used for a while, realised that my eyes got very dry. At first I
thought it's problem with my eyes. But when I checked with friends,
they also experienced the same thing with Acuvue. They said that
the higher water content in the contact lense, the dryer your eyes
will feel. Can't remember how they explain the reason.
Some time later, I decided to switch to fortnightly disposable and
then daily disposable. Again, some opticians recommended Acuvue. I
told them my bad experience with Acuvue product last time. They
said now improved liao. So I bought. Voila! Again! My eyes became
very dry.
Last year, I switched back to monthly disposable, cuz it's cheaper.
Every time I restock, any optician will recommend Acuvue. The brand
that I want they usually say no stock, have to order. Then this
year, cuz I got no time to buy contact lense, I only went to buy
after I totally run out of contact lenses. Again, the optician say
no stock, have to order. I was desperate and they claimed they only
have Acuvue in stock. Once again, they claimed this is a new
improved range, won't dry my eyes one. I refused to take Acuvue.
The optician was so eager to make me take Acuvue (all opticians do
that btw) that he offered to give me one free pair for trial when I
pay for three months supply. If the trial pair are unsuitable, I
could return the unopened packs which I paid for to exchange.
And true enough, again my eyes suffered the extreme dryness. I only
used the trial pair for two weeks (when it is supposed to last for
1 month) and returned the unopened pack to the optician to exchange
for Biomedics. The optician was kinda relunctant and refused to
believe that what Acuvue has done to my eyes. She blamed it on the
duration I put on the lense. I told her I had no problem with other
brands. But every time it comes to Acuvue, my eyes sure have
problems. She and another optician from the same shop claimed that
all their customers are happy with Acuvue and I told them that all
my friends claimed otherwise.
In the end, they still honour their promise to let me exchange. But
the damage has been done. And till today my eyes are still feeling
very dry every day, every minute, even if I stop wearing contact
lenses and wear glasses instead for days. This happens all the time
when I use Acuvue and the last two times took me many months to
recover. Nowadays I have to put eye drop dunno how many times a
day, when I hardly use eye drops with other brands.
I really wonder why ALL the optical shops out there highly
recommend Acuvue until like that. They will claim this claim that
and some try not to give you other brands.
Is there any other way to cure the dry eyes (any kind of vitamins
that I can take )?
Anybody out there experience same thing with Acuvue?
