Interesting, I stopped wearng the lenses last year as I would get a few
lenses in a pack that exhibited this behavior. I even went so far as to
report it to Ciba and sent them the defective lenses.

Anon E  Muss wrote:

My two remaining boxes of lenses are from lot numbers the recall
affects, and the symptoms described in the recall letter
(<URL:http://www.us.cibavision.com/docs/recall_letter.pdf>) help
explain a peculiar thing that happened to me last week. I have very
successfully worn the lenses on a five or six days in, one or two days
out schedule for going on two years
(<URL:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.vision/msg/e9347849f7843096>). I
put a fresh set in on Sunday and a few hours later the right lens
began to not reposition itself right, resulting in blurry vision. I
figured it'd fix itself overnight.

It didn't, and by midday Monday it was painful, like a foreign object
under the lens, with accompanying redness. I got home a little early,
took the lens out to see if I'd put it in backwards (I hadn't, of
course), rinsed it off with fresh saline, and put it back in. No luck:
The discomfort immediately returned. I gave up, took both lenses out,
and wore glasses for the rest of the week.

The redness vanished within a few days and I wore another set this
past week without incident before hearing about the recall, but only
tonight--after removing the lenses on schedule late last night--did I
check the lot numbers. Fortunately I have a single set from unaffected
lots I can wear next week while presumably awaiting new lenses,
whether from my mail-order lens dealer or from Ciba itself.

Should I bother trying to see my optometrist regarding this issue? If
it matters, my right eye is one that I've had issues from GPC and
blepharitis
(<URL:http://groups.google.com/group/sci.med.vision/msg/780b7a33ef2da19a>)
which I treat with Patanol drops twice a day on days when I don't wear
lenses and daily eye scrubs in the shower with a washcloth on days I
do. With this regimen the worst that happens that the right eyelashes
will every four or five weeks once or twice stick together a wee bit
in the far corner (as opposed to the massive crusting I've described
in the previous postings with different lenses and
pre-regimen). However, from the letter it didn't seem like I had much
to worry about given the lack of additional symptoms post-lens
removal. I have my yearly exam coming up in early February.

I got a blast from the OEBB list stating that a recall on CIBAVision's
O2 Optix was imminent.  Anyone got the scoop?