Help i cannot get my contact lenses out?!
Question: i am about to freak out..i cannot get my contacts out..It is my 2nd time wearing them..they went in ok and now my eyes are all irriated...I totallty cannot get both out..any advice?
Answers: i am about to freak out..i cannot get my contacts out..It is my 2nd time wearing them..they went in ok and now my eyes are all irriated...I totallty cannot get both out..any advice?
it actually did happen to me once where it WAS stuck in my eye, and no one could see it oddly enough.
it came out the next day. after itching and burning for a day, i felt something in my eye. i rubbed it, and it came out, all torn up!
i did use eye drops and it didn't help.
if it doesn't stop hurting, i'd go to the eye doc just in case. you never know.
Put some eyedrops in first. Then try taking them out. That usually helps me out. Oh, and relax a bit and don't freak out, that only makes it worse.
Flood your eyes with saline, blink a few times, then use clean, dry fingers to remove them with. They should come out easily.
Sometimes your eyes get dry at the end of the day, so super-wetting your eyes will soften and re-wet your lenses.
For the future, remember that even extended wear lenses count on your constant blinking and tear production to actually stay soft. Ask you doctor about drops and maybe computer screens to make it easier for your eyes. If you're going from the computers at work , to a car's dry heat, to you computer screen at home, you may be asking too much of your natural tears...we'll probably see something about this on 60 Minutes one of these weeks!
Since your eyes are "all irritated" I think there is a good chance that the contact lens is no longer in the eye. I have often had patients come in with eyes as red as a beet because they have been trying to remove the contact from their cornea and all they have been actually doing is repeatedly scraping their fingers across their cornea. This happens mostly in new wearers. Either the lens has come out on its own because of dryness or a blinking problem, or the lens may not have actually gone on in the first place when you attempted to insert it. I would STOP trying to get it off. If it IS on it won't hurt you to wait until tomorrow and call your doctor (hopefully he is on 24 hour call like I am). Just put lubricating drops in the eye to soothe it and leave it alone.
make sure ur fingernails are clipped short. if they are long, its more difficult to grab them cuz ur nail poke ur eye..take ur finger and touch the contact.. then slowlt move it down towards the bottom of ur eye. then with ur thumb, grab it and pinch. it will fold and u will be able to pull it out.