anyone ever get a contact stuck ON their eye...

[HelenePA]

its liked glued to my eyeball I've been putting drops in for the last 2 hrs and rubbing it gently like it said to do on the net but its not worked going to my eye dr in 30 min... how are they going to get this off of me?!?!

 

[Pembo]

I had that happen. The eye doc got it out in a second and I felt stupid for going since he had no problems. He said that it sometimes happens.

 

[JaxJags08]

its liked glued to my eyeball I've been putting drops in for the last 2 hrs and rubbing it gently like it said to do on the net but its not worked going to my eye dr in 30 min... how are they going to get this off of me?!?!

This may sound silly, but are you sure it's still on your eye? One time I thought one was stuck and I kept trying to get it off. Then I looked down on the counter and it had fallen out. My eye was just irritated and it felt like it was still on there.

Hope you get it all worked out quickly and painlessly!

 

[HelenePA]

oh its in there.. I can see and feel the edge of it.. it just wont MOVE!!! I've tried 3 different types of solutions now... NOTHING is making it hydrated again... I felt like an idiot calling and the receptionist didn't help much either.. she just couldn't believe its that stuck... its stuck... and now throbbing since i've been at it for so long...

 

[mom2maggie]

This may sound silly, but are you sure it's still on your eye? One time I thought one was stuck and I kept trying to get it off. Then I looked down on the counter and it had fallen out. My eye was just irritated and it felt like it was still on there.

Hope you get it all worked out quickly and painlessly!

This - I spent an hour when I was a teenager trying to peel my contact off my eye - my eye hurt SO bad, but I kept at it. My mom even tried. Then I blinked really hard and realized my contact had shifted to the corner of my eye and what I was trying to remove was MY CORNEA. I haven't worn contacts since then.

ETA: I thought it was my contact because I could feel the ridge and thought that it was the ridge of my contact, but it wasn't.

 

[swandiverpatt]

YES!!!! More than once and I've had to go to a walk-in clinic to get it removed. If it's a hard lens, it can create a great suction between your eye and the lens.

They have a little rubber "plunger" that pops it right off. After the 3rd or 4th time of having to go in, I asked if I could take the plunger with me.

Now I carry it with me all the time and it works like a charm.

 

[HelenePA]

I wish I was like some of you and it wasnt in there but it is... when I touch my eye it doesn't feel like I'm touching it and I can see out of it its just stuck very stuck and its a soft contact. I saw online about the little plunger thing so I went to look for one in the stores but didn't see them ... lol get it.. see them.. maybe I am nuts and its not in there.. I'll report back in about 20 min... thankfully the dr is only 5 streets away... waiting for dh to come home from getting my dd from school she had "jesus club" tonight

 

[luvmarypoppins]

YES!!!! More than once and I've had to go to a walk-in clinic to get it removed. If it's a hard lens, it can create a great suction between your eye and the lens.

They have a little rubber "plunger" that pops it right off. After the 3rd or 4th time of having to go in, I asked if I could take the plunger with me.

Now I carry it with me all the time and it works like a charm.

This happened to my ds. He had a special contact due to the fact that he had kerataconus. He wound up with a corneal abrasion. It was bad for a few days. He had that plunger too.

He has switched back to glasses. I guess the whole experience traumatized him against trying the contacts again.

Best of luck to you. Hope it gets resolved quickly.

 

[DizBelle]

20 years of wearing contacts and NEVER had one get stuck. I didn't realize it could happen.

 

[HelenePA]

Yeah... 2 hours lots of money spent on different wetting drops... and guess what










yeah it wasn't in there... I did manage to scratch my eye pretty good though I ordered colored contacts this time... at least I'll know for sure if its in there or not... lol

 

[sndfan]

Oh no! I'm sorry you went thru it...with the soft ones, sometimes they get "scrunched up" and roll up in the top of my eyelid...not comfy, but after the first time you learn to check.

Rest your poor little eye

 

[Planogirl]

Sometimes you can see the edge of your own lens and think that it's the contact. I've done that.

I've also "lost" the contact in my eye. I just mean that it somehow gets stuck on the side of my eye and I can't see it. The first time that happened I didn't even know that it was still in my eye until I was suddenly wearing two contact lenses. I knew what happened the second time.

 

[cornflake]

Ew you were touching your eyeball, ewwwww!!! We need a shuddering smiley.

Hey, least you didn't find a plunger thing and then sit around trying to plunge yer eyeball off

Gak!

 

[jme829]

dd18 had that happen not long after she got contacts. We dug around for an hour and a half and finally gave up. Went to the eye dr. and no contact, but like you scratched her eye pretty good to the extent she needed antibiotic drops .

She still wears her contacts , she is just more cautious now.

 

[njmom47]

I wear gas permeables and they gave me a tiny rubber suction thing which I have used a few times. Also your own tears help..I think being hydrated from UNDER the contact lense makes the difference (that also worked for me).
It also does happen that the lense isn't even in there.

 

[minkydog]

Ew you were touching your eyeball, ewwwww!!! We need a shuddering smiley.

Sorry you scratched up your eye. Leave your contacts out for several days until it all heals nicely. Back in the day, when my DH wore contacts he could never get them out with his fingers. He had to use the little plunger. Well, the FOURTH time he lacerated his eyeball with that darned thing his eye doctor took away his little plunger and put him back in glasses! And his eyes have been happy and healthy ever since.

 

[HelenePA]

Ew you were touching your eyeball, ewwwww!!! We need a shuddering smiley.

Hey, least you didn't find a plunger thing and then sit around trying to plunge yer eyeball off

Gak!

lol!! Yeah I'm glad I didn't find it either! that would have been

The dr said it should be fine by tomorrow but if it gets worse to call him... it doesn't hurt.. it just looks REALLY REALLY bad

 

[SaraJayne]

lol!! Yeah I'm glad I didn't find it either! that would have been

The dr said it should be fine by tomorrow but if it gets worse to call him... it doesn't hurt.. it just looks REALLY REALLY bad

I would let your eyes rest for at least a couple days before you put your contacts back in.

Break out the trusty glasses and wear them for a few days.

 

[HelenePA]

I would let your eyes rest for at least a couple days before you put your contacts back in.

Break out the trusty glasses and wear them for a few days.

I dont own glasses. I prob wont put them in til after the weekend is over.. I can shop semi blind

 

[furb & dez]

You can try putting one or two eyedrops in, and then looking left-right back and forth quickly, or looking upper right, then lower left (back and forth).

You'll look and feel like a crazy person, but you can worry about a daughter's morals and somehow that'll make it feel like it's happening naturally.