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red iris ring due to silicone hydrogel contacts

In the past, I had worn soft contact lenses for twenty years.  Always had a bit of dry eye to deal with.  But for the most part, if I was compliant with using lubricating drops, I could wear them for sports, etc. Anyway, I recently tried my first silicone hydrogel soft toric lens, air optix, and ended up with a red ring around one of my irises after approximately 4 hours of wear time.  And my entire eye in both eyes appeared to be nearly having pink eye symptoms.  When I removed the lenses, my eyes burned even more.  The next day, my eyes were still irritated, so I have not worn the new lenses since.  The eye that had the red ring felt like there was something in my eye/foreign body sensation during the last couple hours of wear.  I put more drops in, but couldn't see anything like an eyelash.  I have heard this reaction is not an "allergy", but possibly causing extreme dry eye in my case.  The fitter had ordered me a slightly different prescription, which was not in stock at the time, so could the fact that the prescription was off caused my eyes to react the way they did?
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Thanks, jaysta 36.  I will have to check out the lenses you recommend.  The funny thing is that I wore Air Optix night and day aqua lenses after having corneal surgery and could wear them for an entire week with zero irritation.  I found out they are a slightly different composition than the Air Optix for Astigmatism lenses, unfortunately.  I need toric lenses, which limits my options.  

Enjoy your lenses--
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711220 tn?1251891127
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The redness you describe is due to irritation of the cornea of anterior segment and is probably due to the contact lens.  You need to stop using them and see you doctor.

Dr. O.
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These are terrible lenses tried them myself, the best lens you should try which stands out from the rest,is Trueye dailies acuvue,most comfortable,also acuvue moist are good but these had the edge over them for me,
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