Argggh. It happened again: while I was getting my contact lens out, it slid off my cornea to somewhere north of my eyelid. I can’t even see it when I pull my lids up or down. But I can feel it. Any tips on how to get this thing out of my eye?
Lots of eyedrops and blinking?
I hate when that happens. What I do is look down and kind of press on my upper eyelid and move my eye around in hopes that it will get moved off my eye by my finger. It takes a little while, but it always works eventually.
Well, after several return trips to the mirror, I found the lens folded in half and stuck in the outer corner of the eye. Got it out.
This is why I wear glasses, instead.
(Glad ya got it out though, Walloon, must’ve been hella uncomfortable)
“Hella”?
An awful story I read in a doctor’s memoirs - a drunk guy comes into the emergency room with exactly this complaint, saying, Look, I can grab hold of it, but I can’t quite keep a grip, it keeps slipping, and it hurts. Turns out he had mostly torn his cornea off and was trying to finish the job, apparently already having removed or lost the contact lens.
Very, very.
That’s one of the reasons I had laser eye surgery a couple of years ago. I cannot recommend it highly enough. If you are (or could get to) the LA area, you can PM me and I’ll put you in touch with my surgeon, he is the best I have ever found.
I could have lived out my life without having read that! I did NOT see that coming.
My friend did something like this… only he went to the optometrist before it got this far. He just had a really irritated eye. (We TOLD him it looked like it wasn’t there and he just kept poking at his eye…)
For those who fear contact lenses (and I remember someone who was freaked out by just the thought of touching his eye), this happens only about once a year, lasts no more than twenty minutes, and is irritating rather than painful. And no, it is impossible for the lens to get behind the eyeball; muscle tissue attaches all the way around the middle of the eyeball, which is what make it possible to move your eyeballs around.
My wife did the laser eye surgery thing for much the same reason - got tired of dealing with contact lenses.
Me, I wear glasses. 
Glad you got it out. It has been years since that happened to me, but it is always frustrating.
The older I get, the more I wear my glasses. I used to swear by contacts, but now they seem like a hassle.
I’m pretty sure that’s an urban legend
I don’t think it ever happened to me, but I wore my contacts sporadically (ie when we were going out and were dressed up, having a party, etc.). I’ve had laser eye surgery now, no more contacts! No more glasses!
I’ve worn soft contact lenses for about 15years and have only had a few problems with getting them out over the years-the worst time was when i was in a coma for days and they didn’t take my lenses out for me. So I woke up and took them after 5days or so and they were rock solid. It took ages to get them especially as I had a tube up my nose and tubes in my arms.
I tried to have eye laser surgery a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t allowed because after drinking antifreeze I have partial blindness in one eye and scarring over my corneas. I was really upset, I’d love to just wake up and SEE!
Ugh.
Years (decades actually) ago I removed one of my contacts and discovered that a portion of it had torn off. I knew it had to be still with me so to speak, so after considerable rubbing and poking, literally running my index finger through the entirety of my eye ball, I assumed it must have fallen out when I removed the lens.
Some weeks later, I woke up one morning and felt a dry something or other in my eye. I carefully rubbed and out came the little sliver of contact lens that had been there the entire time.
My contact did that the other day but it somehow jumped into the inner corner of my eye. It’s hard and tinted slightly to make it easy to find and I could only see about a third of it. Luckily I have teeny suction cup thingy or else I don’t know how I would have gotten it out, it would probably damage my eye if I slid it over.
>I’m pretty sure that’s an urban legend
No. I read a book by a doctor who said that he treated this patient. I wasn’t there and can’t say that it is true, but urban legends are stories whose origin is not clear, and this story came directly from a participant in his own book. At worst, it’s a falsehood.
Bolding mine.
Um, not to be rude, but is there more to this? :eek: