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Contact stuck in eye...maybe

BrotherVoodooBrotherVoodoo Registered User regular
edited July 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I think one of my contacts is stuck somewhere behind my eye.

I've been wearing em for years so usually I can get them out or they fell out without me knowing. How do I tell for sure/get it out if it is in fact wedged somewhere unattainable?

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited July 2009
    Can you not feel it at all?

    (edit: http://www.lenscontact.co.uk/contact-lens-stuck-behind-eye.php)

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  • NisiNisi Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    I have my contacts get stuck under my upper eyelid all the time like that article describes, mostly due to allergies and rubbing my eyes even though I shouldn't. Like the article says try looking down and pushing gently downwards on your eyelids with your fingers. Also sometimes I just lift my upper eyelid a bit with my fingers and it will pop right out.

    Generally when this happens to me though I can feel it quite clearly, its very uncomfortable since it is usually folded in half.

    Really dumb question so please don't take offense but are you sure the contact is in? I once while drunk spent about an hour trying to take my right contact out when it had fallen out on the floor, so I was trying to pry my cornea off yay. :)

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  • s_86s_86 Registered User regular
    edited July 2011
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  • ceresceres When the last moon is cast over the last star of morning And the future has past without even a last desperate warningRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
    edited July 2009
    After a while of messing around with it, your eye is going to swell, and then you just aren't going to be able to see what's going on around the redness and tearing and so forth. If it happens again and you're not in pain, stop playing with it for a little while, maybe an hour or so with your eyes closed, to let the swelling go down. When the redness fades a bit, you can gently try to take another look around, although in my experience if you aren't in pain it probably means the lens came out and you missed it somehow.

    Sometimes the movement of your eye when it's closed will work the lens back around if it's still in there.

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  • T. J. Nutty Nub T. J. Nutty Nub Registered User regular
    edited July 2009
    When i mess up my hard contacts and they get around my eye, I like to look in the opposite direction that the contact is stuck, that way the contact it actually in the center of my eye, then try and get it out

    but since you probably have soft ones, maybe letting come out like ceres said is best

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