Contact issues?

Question

Hi there, I have been wearing contacts for about 3 years now and i've had this problem twice now. I wear 30 day night and day lenses and I changed them two days ago. I have two different presciptions for my eyes, my left eye is worse than my right. Anyway, I changed my contacts and now my vision is blurry and it feels like maybe the contacts are wrong. I know they are in the right eyes, I double checkcked the labels before I put them in, and I also took them out and swaped to make sure as well. It's like they are the wrong lenses put in the cases marked for my strength presciption. Is that possible. It happened a couple months ago as well. I went and got another pair from the DR, compared the packaging it was all the same, but When I put in the new lenses, it was better. Is there a way that the Eye clinic can check the level on my actual contacts to see if there is something wrong with them, or is is possible that its just a diffected pair and I happend to have it happend twice.

Answer 1

When was your last eye exam? You need to get glasses that work for you and take a break from your contact periodically. You can wear them at home or on the weekends or something. Never sleep in your contacts even though it is FDA approved. Sleeping in your contacts increases the chance of infection by 33%

Answer 2

there's no way to check an opened contact lens for the strength...

they may be defective given that you did try them in each eye...

The fact that your glasses give you a headache tells me they aren't the right Rx.

Answer 3

could be back wards flip them inside out

Answer 4

The eye clinic will be able to see if the strengths are not right if they do an eye test while you have your lenses in your eyes. I have had faulty lenses before, wear the same kind as you do (30 day lenses). So go to the eye clinic as soon as possible and have them check it out, I can imagine that what you are going through with your lenses at the moment must be extremely uncomfortable. Good luck!

Answer 5

are they toric lenses?  If there are 3 numbers to your prescription, something like -3.25 -1.25 X180, then they're torics. If that's the case, the lens has to be oriented a certain way - they should be weighted to sit that way, but sometimes they get messed up. I wear one toric lens, and if I just twist it around in my eye, I can make it clear.