Contacts fused to eyes

browneyedsquirrel

Guys, I left my contacts in too long and now they are so dry and stuck to my eye that I seriously can not take them out. Help!!

Anyone had this happen before? Tips?

Synthetic Orange

uhm.... wow. Okay.

Find a small cup that will completely fit over your eye, if you've got one of those eyewash caps, that's idea. Fill it up with saline, put it over your eye and face upwards so that all the saline covers it. Keep it open and blink until your contact rehydrates.

Repeat for other eye?

Ashaman42

Also don't force the contact off till it's good and ready otherwise you could damage your eye. But I've had this happen before, either use a cup as SO suggests or just dropper saline onto the lense.

azurice

Gah, I had this happen a lot when I wore my contacts for days at a time. Are they soft lenses or hard ones? I wear soft lenses and whenever this happened I usually just kept putting a few drops of saline solution into my eye until it wasn't so dry and testing if I can move it. If it doesn't move it's not ready and like Ashaman said, don't try to force it off or you'll damage your eye.

browneyedsquirrel

Hehe, yeah I put a ton of drops in my eyes, rested for a bit and tried again when I woke up.

The cup thing really helped, thanks so much guys.

Note to self: Don't fuck around with your contacts.

I think I'll be wearing my glasses for a few days ;p

Ashaman42

Good call on the wearing glasses for a few days, give your eyes a chance to recover.

Recoil42

ouch.

ege02

You probably learned your lesson, but for future reference, shit like this can give you infections and make you blind.

You are not supposed to sleep with your contact on.

You are supposed to take them out at least once every 24 hours.

Seriously, don't take stupid chances. This is your most important sensory organ we're talking about here.

Incenjucar

Generally speaking, you should probably limit use of contacts in general.

It supposedly ages your eyes about two years if you use them normally.

DasUberEdward

Could someone inform me of the effects of removing a stuck contact? My right eye has been very picky lately where it constantly feels like something is in my eye whenever I have a contact in. It almost seems to be rejecting the contact as it will eventually start to slide off after wearing it for a certain duration of time. This duration of time seems to be proportional to how long I haven't had contacts in. Has my hedonistic college lifestyle of often leaving my contacts in ruined my right eye somehow?

(Note: I've switched contacts already. I ONLY have contacts. One eye in one eye out is odd.)

ege02

DasUberEdward wrote: »

Could someone inform me of the effects of removing a stuck contact? My right eye has been very picky lately where it constantly feels like something is in my eye whenever I have a contact in. It almost seems to be rejecting the contact as it will eventually start to slide off after wearing it for a certain duration of time. This duration of time seems to be proportional to how long I haven't had contacts in. Has my hedonistic college lifestyle of often leaving my contacts in ruined my right eye somehow?

(Note: I've switched contacts already. I ONLY have contacts. One eye in one eye out is odd.)

Contacts generally become uncomfortable if you don't let them stay in the contact lens solution for a good amount of time. The protein build-up on the contact will give a "bumpy" feel to it, so it will lead to the feeling you described.

At which point it is a bad idea to keep using them regularly. I am no eye doctor (my dad is) and I can't diagnose you, but I would recommend a "one day contacts and one day glasses" schedule for a while until the feeling goes away.

Also, make sure you change your contact lens solution regularly (I change mine every other day). The more you let it stay unchanged, the less effectively it will do its job of cleaning the lens.

azurice

ege02 wrote: »

At which point it is a bad idea to keep using them regularly. I am no eye doctor (my dad is) and I can't diagnose you, but I would recommend a "one day contacts and one day glasses" schedule for a while until the feeling goes away.

Also, make sure you change your contact lens solution regularly (I change mine every other day). The more you let it stay unchanged, the less effectively it will do its job of cleaning the lens.

^^^ Do what Ege said. I wear glasses most of the time these days because I really, really didn't want to ruin my eyes.

DasUberEdward

azurice wrote: »

ege02 wrote: »

At which point it is a bad idea to keep using them regularly. I am no eye doctor (my dad is) and I can't diagnose you, but I would recommend a "one day contacts and one day glasses" schedule for a while until the feeling goes away.

Also, make sure you change your contact lens solution regularly (I change mine every other day). The more you let it stay unchanged, the less effectively it will do its job of cleaning the lens.

^^^ Do what Ege said. I wear glasses most of the time these days because I really, really didn't want to ruin my eyes.

Yeah I lost my glasses in eighth grade and i'm too much of a conceited/vain bastard to ever go back to them. I guess i'm screwed. I change the solution regularly, so I don't think it's a matter of protein build up. I have a pair of contacts with a slightly different shape that I may try soon but for now i'm just going to try to keep them out as long as possible.