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kgelder12 It is great you figured out what was causing your eye pain and intestinal distress but too bad you weren't able to get the water tested before you changed the faucet and filter. You could have your current water tested to see if there are any detectable harmful pollutants in it. Do you have copper pipe or the newer flexible PEX type piping? If you have the PEX piping your water may still be unsafe to drink. Here is a quote from an on-line article on PEX:
"From what is known, preliminary findings show different PEX brands affect water quality differently, and even pipes that pass safety tests may contain enough contaminants to affect water’s taste and smell. In fact, there are over 70 PEX pipe brands on the market, and studies showed that some of those PEX pipes have over 150 contaminants.
One of the most recent studies conducted in 2021 and published by Science Direct tested water from eight different types of PEX pipe brands. They found that 62 chemicals leached into the water, with half of those organic compounds leached considered toxicological—basically, toxic—but not carcinogenic, or cancer-causing."
Your water filter may have been made from the same type of plastic as the PEX piping is. Plastic is nasty.
https://www.angi.com/articles/does-pex-piping-affect-drinking-water-quality.htm