I got my new Oasys trial lenses yesterday. My OD said to wear the
lenses 8 hours a day and to see him in a week.  He said he needed to
check my eyes because the Oasys lenses only come in 8.4 base curve, and
I normally wear 8.7 (I used to wear 9.3, but went to 8.7 Acuvue 2's
when J&J stopped making them a while back). He said they may be too
tight for me. I think he may be right (a previous optometrist had once
told me that my corneas were the flattest she had ever seen).

I took the lenses out of their little packages and rinsed with aerosol
saline spray. I wore them for 4 hours last evening, and although comfy
when they first went in, my vision was poor. The left lens (+.50) was
not strong enough, and the right lens (-.75) was fuzzy at a distance.
Not sure if it was too weak or too strong. And they were irritating. I
can't explain this very well,  but they didn't burn or sting. It felt
like I was hovered over a bowl of chopped onions, but without the tears
and odor. And I had a good deal of lens "awareness".

When I took them out, I cleaned and soaked them in AMO Complete
Moisture Plus solution. This morning, I put them back in and
encountered the same thing.  I wound up removing them after 5 hours. My
naked eyes felt better after about an hour. I had no visible redness
and my vision was actually better *without* the lenses. I didn't see
any red rings around my pupils or corneas.

Last month, I tried the Acuvue Advance lenses and I experienced the
same thing, but a bit more intense.

Is it possible that I may be having a reaction to the silicone material
in the lenses?   Or is this a result of too-tight lenses?

I will try again tomorrow. If this doesn't get better, I'll stay with
my Acuvue 2's, unless there might be something else I can try.  (The
Acuvue 2's are comfy and my vision is really crisp, but they dry out
often).

-Tom in Scranton, PA   USA