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Medical Forum / General / Vision / January 2005What is the lowest water content toric lenses available?
Hello all, I have very dry eyes and am wearing Focus Night and Day lenses on an as-needed basis. Last year when they were prescribed, the lack of toric correction was OK with me because the lenses seemed to mask it. Today I put in a new pair (didn't wear any since Oct) and the lack of correction for astigmatism is really noticible. I was told that the Focus N&D lenses should be coming our in toric "any day" but that was over a year ago. So my question is, what is the lowest water content toric lenses currently available? I wish I could wear RGP but there are 2 problems: 1) I get 3 and 9 o'clock dryness (no matter WHO fitted me with RGP I still get it) and 2) I tend to nap on the train to and from work and napping with RGP isn't fun. Thanks for all your help Paula Sims paulasims2004@hotmail.com At home now I am not armed with my Tylers Quarterly (which has all the details regarding commercially available contacts) so I might not be entirely accurate. However, for disposables I would consider Preference Toric from CooperVision which is a disposable brand (disposables are preferred IMHO) having a 43% water content. Also there are Cibasoft Torics which are 38% water but may only be available as annual replacement lenses (not sure). Have you tried Proclear Toric lenses. They are high water content but are effective for many contact lens wearers with dry eye problems. Water content is not the whole story! =========== > Hello all, > I have very dry eyes and am wearing Focus Night and Day lenses on an [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Paula Sims > paulasims2004@hotmail.com The Focus Night&Day are already very low water content at 24%. If you're inclined to napping with your contacts in then I would stick with this type of lens. How do you know that it is the astigmatism causing your problem?... it may be that your eyes were tired, or dry, or maybe the vision changed slightly since they were prescribed? The uncorrected astigmatism is only one possibility. The other lens you could look into is Purevision Toric... this lens is just being launched here in Australia currently... you'd need to find out whether it's available yet in your area.... this is a 'sleep-in' lens like the Focus Night & Day, and it's also very low water content (28%). But if you've noticed a change in your vision between October and now, you should get it checked out anyway. Dom > Hello all, > I have very dry eyes and am wearing Focus Night and Day lenses on an [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Paula Sims > paulasims2004@hotmail.com
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