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.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

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[CMEPCMEP]

I've already done that.  This is the first time I've used this optometrist and optician (under the same roof).  They say everything looks fine and we've already done that poly to plastic swap.  They have no other thoughts on the matter.  I'm going back to my old ophthalmologist.  However, when I had the "cheap plastic" swap out on my existing pair, he had no idea about that or any other thoughts on the matter.  I just went back to the optician and he switched it.

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO]

If you recently got "new glasses" return to the ophthalmologist or optometrist that presecribed them for a "glasses recheck"  be sure and take old and new pair. If you have had them less than 30 days this is often done complimentary and with out a charge for the office visit. Do ask when you call.  There are too many variable to work through them as a mental exercise and it requires a exam of the eye and the old and new glasses.

JCH MD