New Contacts..can't see in the dark with them??

Question

I have no idea what the deal is..I can see fine during the day in them, they are bit dry but nothing bad, but when it comes night or if I'm in a dark room..I can't see. It's like my vision just melts away and they become so blurry and fuzzy and I see halo's around everything.

I noticed this bc I was walking through my house in the dark and glanced at a digital clock and noticed the numbers were way fuzzy..so I turned on the light to test it out and within seconds I could see plain again..??

My contacts have never done this before..does anyone have any idea why? I have an appt. next week with the eye doctor again, but this is just really odd!

They are clean..they are a brand new pair and nothing is on them.

Answer 1

it's probably just protein accumulated u have got to wash them under cold water once in a while that helped me

Answer 2

It's a function of pupil size.

There are two main possibilities:
The Rx on the contacts is slightly off, which shows more the larger the pupil.
Or.
The optical zone on the contacts is too small, so that when the pupils are large, light is entering through the eye from the outer zone which is shaped for comfort not optical precision (it's curved to reduce the thickness of the lens and provide rounding towards the edge of the lens).

If the lenses are not fitting well and are sitting off-centre, a normally adequate optical zone will produce the same effect.
But there the halos will tend to be more in one direction.

This can also crop up with bifocal/varifocal contacts in poor light, for a rather different reason.

Answer 3

They are clean, and i can see now but not with them on ,i guest there was nothing wrong with my eyes

Answer 4

i have the same exact problem. apparently it's because of my astigmatism. so if you have astigmatism, that's why it's blurry. if not, then i'm not sure!