Contact stuck in eye?

[georgeharrison]

Has this happened to anyone?

I'm semi new to contacts. Like an idiot, I tried to take mine out last night without a mirror. One was successful, the second I couldn't get out (moved, but not out). I ran to the mirror, but it was no where to be found. I pulled on my eye lids like crazy and saw nothing. I have no sensitivity in that eye.

Would it feel funny to have it stuck somewhere behind my eye lid?

Is it more probable that it fell out? I looked around where I had been and obviously didn't find it.

I'm not sure what to do.

[tacokick]

It can get stuck back in your eye but it normally works itself out.

[krismill]

If mine gets stuck under my eyelid it hurts. There's no way I wouldn't know if it was there. I'm guessing it fell out with all that messing around.

[Patsy Stone]

This has happened to me. The contact was stuck way up under my eyelid. I had no pain or discomfort. I closed my eye and rolled my eyeball around and it eventually came down enough to where I could grab it. Hope you can get it out soon!

[gibbinator]

I can definitely feel mine was for they get stuck. Like, my eye won't roll around smoothly until it works itself out. Although it's never gotten lost so far that I couldn't get a finger nail on the edge and slide it out. I'm betting yours fell out if you feel nothing.

[lolo]

If it makes you less nervous, you could flush your eye with saline.

[TR]

eddy just had this happen!

[mae141]

I get them stuck up there a few times a year. It sucks. It doesn't hurt, but if I roll my eye around I can feel it. Usually rinsing with saline and pushing on my eyelid will get it to move until I can get it out.

Once I had one stuck for days though. People kept telling me I was crazy and that it had to have fallen out. My husband and a friend both looked and couldn't see it up there, but I knew it was there. I finally went to the eye dr and it was really folded up and tucked up there. He had to numb my eye and get it out with a stick thing. It sucked.

Good luck.

[lostrn]

Hard or soft lenses?

[MamaMaui24]

It probably fell out. Do not dig around your eyeball thinking it's stuck. I've done that and every time it had already fallen out.

[tellmesomethingood]

I've found mine by shining a flashlight on the floor and counter. It would catch just enough of a glare.

[sweetbrier]

Start at the outside corner and rub in and down and repeat all across your eye. If I have one stuck that's how I get it to move and then I can usually grab it.

[MixedBerryJam]

Feb 13, 2016 18:38:25 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

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OP did you ever find your contact lens? Was it in your eye? Creepily overinvested, party of one.

[georgeharrison]

Feb 14, 2016 9:32:16 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Feb 13, 2016 18:38:25 GMT -5 georgeharrison said:

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OP did you ever find your contact lens? Was it in your eye? Creepily overinvested, party of one.

Thanks for asking.  I haven't found it.  We cleaned the house yesterday, so if it fell out there is about zero change of finding it. I feel nothing in my eye and my eyes tend to be pretty sensitive, so I'm hoping that means it's not in there.