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Have I lost a contact lens?

  • 28-05-2007 6:12pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭


    This might sound odd but I need some advice.

    I may have lost one of my daily disposable contact lenses.. or its gone to the back of my eye. I was taking my jumper off and had my eyes closed a little but when I opened them fully, only one lens was where it should be.

    I've searched all around where I was standing and the jumper itself but no joy. I cant feel it in my eye either!

    Has this happened to anyone before? I thought it was a myth that contacts could move up too far on your eye so as to "lose" them.

    I really dont fancy a spin to an optician tomorrow to see if theres a contact lens floating around up there somewhere!


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  • Posts: 16,720 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Do you have eye drops? It might loosen them up so that the lens would move back to where it's meant to be.

    One split in two in my eye before. I thought I had both parts out until I noticed that my eye started hurting (hours later), so I got eye drops and was able to loosen it up and take it out.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,387 ✭✭✭EKRIUQ


    It will come back into place unless its fell out.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17,208 ✭✭✭✭aidan_walsh


    Trotter wrote:
    or its gone to the back of my eye.
    Isn't that just a myth?

    /me goes to Google snopes...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Eye drops it is so.. thats a spin to the chemist. Thanks!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Isn't that just a myth?

    /me goes to Google snopes...

    Trotter wrote:
    I thought it was a myth that contacts could move up too far on your eye so as to "lose" them.

    Yep.. as I said, I thought it was. I hope it still is!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,584 ✭✭✭c - 13


    It is an urban myth, when that hapens to me it usually folds up and goes right up under my eyelid. The easiest way to see if its there is to get someone to have a look up under your eyelid, find where it is and then use your figer tip on the outside of your eyelid to pull it down again.

    Thats how I do it anyway.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    I guess the OP should put a warning on the top of this thread for this topic involves lots of eyeball touching?

    *Takes off glasses, turns eyelids partially inside out, and uses salt-and-vinegar-crisp flavoured fingers to prod eyeballs*.:)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    I've had them fold up and go back a fair bit. I had to lift up the eyelid and coax it down slowly with a bit of paper.

    Not fun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 161 ✭✭beachbabe


    Close your eye and massage your eyelid from outer corner towards your nose,this will help move it from wherever it lodged.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    I have it.


    You're not getting it back now.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,661 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Can you see any indication of it in the mirror?

    I usually close my eye and massage the eyeball, moving from outwards towards my pupil, in the hope of bringing the lens back into place. Otherwise I blink as much and as rapidly as I can until it comes back. Eye drops sound good too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    whenever it happened to me I could always feel something stuck there that shouldn't be, if you can't feel it it's not too likely that's where it is.. but like someone said, try having a look into a mirror.

    or just try moving your eyeball around quickly in a few different directions, at the very least you should feel it moving around and you'll know it's there.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    It is a myth, theres some sort of barrier that prevents it going to the back of your eye.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Yeah, you can usually tell by massaging around the back of your eyeball (from the outside! :eek: ) and moving your eye about. You'll feel it fairly promptly. If you can't feel it, it's fallen out. I was convinced for about 36 hours once that the lens was sitting at the back of my eyeball, but 7 years later there's still no sign of it, so I'm guessing it fell out instead. Hopefully.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,154 ✭✭✭Oriel


    If you can't feel it in your eye, then it's not there. Trust me, you'd feel it.
    Keep looking.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    seamus wrote:
    I was convinced for about 36 hours once that the lens was sitting at the back of my eyeball, but 7 years later there's still no sign of it, so I'm guessing it fell out instead. Hopefully.

    I feel better now :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 205 ✭✭*Roisin*


    Nope, I lost one in my eye before, and I couldn't feel it at all. Thought it must have fallen out somewhere and no matter how hard I searched I couldn't find it at all. Eventually saw a little blue hue at the very very top of my eyeball. Took two hours, a whole lotta pain, and a blue dinner knife, to pull the thing down and out. Fecking contacts.

    Just try drops, even some of your contact solution and leave ur eye closed for a while (i taped mine down with sellotape, I'm like mcgyver!) and hopefully it'll come back down a little.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,910 ✭✭✭✭RoundyMooney


    Epi-lasik ftw.

    God, I hated contacts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    *Roisin* wrote:
    Nope, I lost one in my eye before, and I couldn't feel it at all. Thought it must have fallen out somewhere and no matter how hard I searched I couldn't find it at all. Eventually saw a little blue hue at the very very top of my eyeball. Took two hours, a whole lotta pain, and a blue dinner knife, to pull the thing down and out. Fecking contacts.

    Just try drops, even some of your contact solution and leave ur eye closed for a while (i taped mine down with sellotape, I'm like mcgyver!) and hopefully it'll come back down a little.
    A dinner knife??? Jesus christ, it's a wonder how you didn't scratch your eyes out!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    We've a lot of contact wearers on these boards!


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    it's the new fashion conscious geek


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    You can get ones that change the color of your eyes afaik now.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yeah, i wanted to get them.. but then my father went ahead and payed for my laser eye surgery

    the bastard


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    Hmmm, I'd have to I'd have preferred the laser instead.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    cson wrote:
    You can get ones that change the color of your eyes afaik now.
    Ah you've been able to get them for years. Just to get actual prescription lenses with a different colour has always been very expensive. It's still not cheap, but a good deal cheaper now as the manufacturers try to cash in on the cosmetic pedantry consuming the globe.

    Non-prescription coloured lenses have been available in some places for ages, and they're not expensive. But there's no way in hell you should stick any type of lens on your eyeball without talking to an optician.

    As an aside, almost all normal contact lenses have always been tinted blue. This is to ensure that they're visible when immersed in liquid or if you accidentally drop them on the floor. Even then they're almost invisible. When you have blue eyes, they massively enhance the blueness. Ever see an ad/film where someone's eyes are so sky blue it looks unnatural? Lenses :)


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    yeah, I don't think embee is going to be complimenting me on my eyes now that I'm not wearing lenses any more :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,500 ✭✭✭✭cson


    seamus wrote:
    Ah you've been able to get them for years. Just to get actual prescription lenses with a different colour has always been very expensive. It's still not cheap, but a good deal cheaper now as the manufacturers try to cash in on the cosmetic pedantry consuming the globe.

    Non-prescription coloured lenses have been available in some places for ages, and they're not expensive. But there's no way in hell you should stick any type of lens on your eyeball without talking to an optician.

    As an aside, almost all normal contact lenses have always been tinted blue. This is to ensure that they're visible when immersed in liquid or if you accidentally drop them on the floor. Even then they're almost invisible. When you have blue eyes, they massively enhance the blueness. Ever see an ad/film where someone's eyes are so sky blue it looks unnatural? Lenses :)

    Yeah I know first hand! My eyes are a kind of light blue but when I put lenses in (Focus Dailies with the blue tint) they go deep blue.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,304 ✭✭✭✭koneko


    Coloured lenses have been around for a long time.

    Don't buy your lenses from a store here, buy them online, way cheaper and better selection (you do need a prescription though, but as seamus says, don't even think about getting lenses without going to an optician first)

    http://www.visiondirect.com - great store, very quick too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    Well, to finish the story, my eye was still a bit sore this mornin so I went to the opticians (she was loovvvely) and she had a good gawk around my eye and said that it was gone. (the lens.. not me eye).

    Where its gone remains a mystery. I'll probably find it next time I hoover my room. So.. Christmas then!

    :D


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Trotter wrote:
    Well, to finish the story, my eye was still a bit sore this mornin
    That's what happens when you spend half the day poking around your eyeball! :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,362 ✭✭✭Trotter


    seamus wrote:
    That's what happens when you spend half the day poking around your eyeball! :D

    True :p


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