New Eyeglasses Are Burning!

[CMEPCMEP]

My new eyeglasses are burning very badly.  My old or existing pair, very minimal.  Single vision.  The new prescription has not changed in one eye and very minor in the other.  I've had this problem before for different reasons: prescription too perfect, centers off and lastly (believe it or not) supposedly cheap plastic.  The "cheap plastic", everything else checked out and the optician admitted to the inexpensive plastic and changed it out and the burning went away.  That's the existing pair I have now.  That was 10 years ago and that optician is gone.  With this new pair we tried polycarbonate and plastic.  We used Essilor in both cases.  That should be ok.  Both burned.  My old pair has vinyl nose pads, so does the new pair.  They both are coated.  The old and the new are both metal frames.  By process of elimination, what's left?  I'm wondering about the optician's cleaning solution.  Whatever is happening is very, very strange and unusual.  I've ran this by over a dozen opticians so far.  All, no thoughts or comments.  Nothing on the net either.

[Aria2011]

I, too, just got my new eyeglasses from a new optometrist and I am also experiencing burning eyes.  I will be calling the optometrist tomorrow to tell them about it.  The frames are titanium.  I am not sure if I am allergic to the frame or to the paint on the frame.  I've never had this problem with eyeglasses before (and I've had many).  I should have gone back to my old optometrist, but I was not happy with their customer service.

[CMEPCMEP]

As mentioned in my original post, we've already swapped out the polycarb for plastic.  The burning is the explicit reason why.  The optometrist in that store is aware the optician and I are playing around and I've already spoken to her.  She has no idea.  I'm scheduled to go back to an old ophthalmologist.  And I'm going to a different optician and we're going to try two different brands of lenses.  You have to do process of elimination and try different things.  This is going to get expensive but I'm going to have to figure it out on my own.  It's annoying.

[pacient]

My pain wasn't that bad.  How long has it been since you got your glasses?  If it's been more than a few days, I'd definitely go back to the doctor.

[CMEPCMEP]

How bad was the pain?  After about a half hour it's pretty unbearable.  And it takes a long time to subside, even after a night's sleep.  I did find one other post of a person that had the same exact symptoms, but it's closed and there is no resolution.  That's the person I need to talk to.  I'm trying to reach them.  The post was "Sensitivity To Eyeglasses" dated August 2, 2010.  It's the only other reference I could find ANYWHERE on the internet.  Amazing!

[pacient]

Hey I got new eyeglasses a few weeks ago (after wearing my old glasses for 10 years), and I also had my eyes burn. But after a couple days, the burning feeling went away.  Maybe it will for you too.

[CMEPCMEP]

For this new pair of glasses, this is the first time I've used this optometrist and optician.  They say everything looks fine and we've already done that poly to plastic swap.  They have no other thoughts on the matter.  I am going back to my old ophthalmologist.  However, when I had the "cheap plastic" swap out on my existing pair 10 years ago, I went to him first and he had no idea about that or any additional thoughts either.  Then I just went back to the optician and he supposedly put in a better quality of plastic.  I don't expect anything different from that ophthalmologist now.  Regarding dry eye, as noted in my original post, my old pair is ok.  If I had dry eye, that would not be the case.  And there is no reaction to the skin.

[Houman Vosoghi, MD]

Go see an ophthalmologist.  If the burning is in the eyes themselves, you likely have a dry eye condition that needs to be diagnosed and treated and it is unlikely to be from the glasses themselves.  If it is on the skin, you may be allergic to certain materials.  In either case, I would go see an eye MD/ophthalmologist who will likely figure it out.

HV