Contact Lens Question

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Anybody ever heard of anyone accidentally pushing their lens behind their eyeball?

I put mine in this morning and my eyes were a little itchy, so I rubbed them a bit, and lost my lens. Couldn't find it anywhere around on the sink or floor, and my eye feels a little weird like something could be back there....

 

[mobobuff]

No, it is impossible and an urban myth. In order to push the lense "behind" your eyeball you'd have to break connective tissues that are attached to the sides of the eyeball.

And I dunno if your ophthomologist told you, but NEVER rub your eyes when you have your lenses in. It can scratch the cornea and also, pop the lense out and you can lose it.

 

It's happened to me a couple times. Not all the way behind the eye, but far enough back there that it's all the way above the eyelid.

Just keep blinking and moving your eye around and it'll come back down, if it is indeed up there.

 

[meltdown75]

I've pushed mine up quite a ways and thought I lost it up in there, but I eventually got it out. Good luck.

😉

 

[MikeyIs4Dcats]

Originally posted by: jumpr
It's happened to me a couple times. Not all the way behind the eye, but far enough back there that it's all the way above the eyelid.

Just keep blinking and moving your eye around and it'll come back down, if it is indeed up there.

yeah, I'v done that before, but I could always see it up there....this I can't see anything, but it burns a little bit....

and I guess I don't really mean behind, just out of sight on the side....

 

[mobobuff]

I'm sure it's on the floor somewhere. They're very difficult to see when not right in front of you. If it was wedged between your eyelid and your eyeball, you'd know, trust me.

 

[Reel]

I have knocked mine loose and popped it into the upper eyelid area. When that happens, I massage the eyelid from the top toward my nose. That moves the contact lens to the corner of my eye at which point I can retrieve it. I have had this happen maybe 2 or 3 times. It is always unpleasant but my mom prepared me that it might happen. (I just got contacts last summer. She has had them for 30+ years.)

 

[dabuddha]

God this reminds me of the ER episode I saw last weekend where some guy coughed so hard his eyeball popped out! Freakiest sh!t I've ever seen!

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I have had contacts get stuck pretty far back on the eye.. usually you can spot and/or feel them though, if you look around in the mirror and pull away your eyelid, etc.