One eyeball recently stopped tolerating contact lens. Why?

I had that problem several weeks ago - maybe I'm a wimp but I would describe it as agonizing. It was bad enough that I couldn't keep my eye open to drive home from the office and ended up pulling over and taking my contact out. I have had a problem wearing my contact in that eye ever since, as soon as I put it in it starts hurting. I decided that something must have scratched my eye somehow. Such a pain and I HATE wearing my glasses. I'm OCD about them being smudgy.

Allergies? I have one eye that gets irritated when certain things are in bloom. My eye Dr suggested eye drops.

I've been wearing contacts for 30 years. I've also had allergies and taken meds for as long. This year, my right eye started getting itchy to the point that I couldn't even wear the lens anymore. I have monthlies, so I kept changing it out. That helped for a day, but no longer.

I went in to see my eye Dr. turns out I have allergies IN MY EYES! He put some dye in my eye and could figure it out. He prescribed patanol drops and using the clear care contact lens cleaning solution.

I used the eye drops for about a month (to get through the spring) and they worked amazingly well. I am continuing to use the clear care system because they really clean lenses well. (I've had trouble with calcium deposits for the entire time I've worn lenses)

Anyway, it was surprising to me that after several decades of lens use and allergies it would just be happening now, but glad that there was a solution so I didn't have to stop wearing lenses.

There's a lot of different things it could be--foreign body, corneal abrasion, allergy, dry eye. I get corneal infiltrates sometimes (kind of like an ulcer but not as bad). I'd probably see my eye doctor if it still bothered me after I gave the eye a rest from the contact for a day or two.

any updates on the problem?