How do I get a contact out of my eye?!?!?!?!
Question:
How do I get a contact out of my eye?!?!?!?
Here's the story...I got out of the shower and was drying my face off. I forgot I had my contacts in, and I apparently rubbed too hard on my left eye. Now, I can't see anything (well, it is my poor vision when I don't have any prescription on), and I can feel it somewhere in my eye. I have tried flushing it with water, rubbing my eye, blinking, and closing it for long periods of time.
Any suggestions???
Please! It hurts!
Answers:
okay dont panic. DO NOT go to the E.R.
if you normally wear soft contact lenses...the answer is: the lens is probably not in there anymore.
if you cant see it in your own eye, and if your friends/family members cant see it when you look down and hold your eyelid up, and you see poorly, then its not in there.
stop trying to "remove" it, and start looking on the floor where you were standing when you rubbed your eye. the single most likely scenario is that you rubbed it out.
VERY OFTEN it will "feel" like the lens is still in your eye. but if you are seeing terrible, that means the lens is at least decentered off your cornea. and if you cant see it in your eye and nobody else can, either...then its probably not in there. patients will just dig and dig and make their eye increasingly redder and more inflamed trying to remove a lens that they think is "behind" their eye.
the lens cant get dark-side-of-the-moon "behind" your eye. thats a myth. there's a dead end back there called a "fornix".
soft lenses are large enough that they cant really fit up there under your eyelid. so if your friends & family cant see it when you look down and lift your eyelid up, then its not there.
now if you're a "hard" or gas permeable wearer, it is possible (but still a little unlikely IMO) that its up there. those lenses are usually small enough to fit. but i doubt you're a gas perm wearer...most of them have had this happen before and are adept at fixing it.
if you normally wear soft lenses...then its not in there, no matter what it "feels" like. no soft lens can be repeatedly "rinsed" and stay in there. that would be highly, highly unlikely.