First day of contacts. There STUCK ON MY EYES!!!!!!!!!!

BadNewsBears

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My dad a contact wearer for atleast 12 years cant get them, I cant get them . A small suction cup cant get it, ive used multiple methods and CAN NOT GET MY CONTACTS OFF! Scoutch tape on a dry eye is coming next. What else can I do.

Also tried floating it off with fluid, sliding it off my cornea,pinching, rolling. EVERYTHING!


WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

Platypus

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Don't panic.

Put some saline in your eyes, look up at yourself in the mirror, above your vision, put your finger straight in the middle of your pupil, pull down, then pinch your fingers together and it will come out.
 

TwiceOver

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Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Don't panic.

Put some saline in your eyes, look up at yourself in the mirror, above your vision, put your finger straight in the middle of your pupil, pull down, then pinch your fingers together and it will come out.

Exactly.
 

BadNewsBears

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Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Don't panic.

Put some saline in your eyes, look up at yourself in the mirror, above your vision, put your finger straight in the middle of your pupil, pull down, then pinch your fingers together and it will come out.


I honestly have tried this, I CAN NOT get them to even move off of my cornea. Dad is a master of contacts and cant get it. This has been going on for over 5 hours now!
 

Brackis

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Call me stupid, but are you sure they are still in? I'm not a contact wearer so I have nothing else to say.
 

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Originally posted by: BadNewsBears
Originally posted by: CorporateRecreation
Don't panic.

Put some saline in your eyes, look up at yourself in the mirror, above your vision, put your finger straight in the middle of your pupil, pull down, then pinch your fingers together and it will come out.


I honestly have tried this, I CAN NOT get them to even move off of my cornea. Dad is a master of contacts and cant get it. This has been going on for over 5 hours now!


Are they dry and stuck?

Do this if that is the case, put a lot of the solution in your eye and roll it around with your lid closed for a good minute, moving your eyes in circles. Keep doing this until you can move the contact around on your cornea.

Report back if this doesn't work.
 

aphex

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Originally posted by: Brackis
Call me stupid, but are you sure they are still in? I'm not a contact wearer so I have nothing else to say.

Yea, i've done that before... Digging around in there for 10 minutes only to realize i took them out an hour ago :)
 

TwiceOver

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Sometimes you really got to get in there and dig. Don't be scared to touch your eyes, be forceful about it. Sometimes if there isn't enough liquid between the contact and eye it can cause a hell of a suction.
 

Sqube

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If the guy's vision is bad enough, he can probably tell whether it's in or not.

Have you tried moving it just a bit and putting solution under it? It'll be uncomfortable as all hell, but seeing as you're even thinking about something like Scotch tape...
 

BadNewsBears

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Originally posted by: aphex
Originally posted by: Brackis
Call me stupid, but are you sure they are still in? I'm not a contact wearer so I have nothing else to say.

Yea, i've done that before... Digging around in there for 10 minutes only to realize i took them out an hour ago :)


No there bigger than my cornea, I can clearly see them as can my dad.
 

MikeMike

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hit yourself in the eye, or have your dad like shoot your eye with a rubber band. this will dislodge the contact due to the force and cause your eyes to water and push the contacts somewhere.

of course thats last thing to do.

MIKE
 

Brule

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Xylene might help if you can afford a new pair of eyes in the morning.