Contact lens stuck in eye on Xmas day

This happened to me a couple of days ago and it split in my eye. Got half out straight away then half came out the next day. Wouldn’t have thought to seek any attention tbh! Lots of blinking and maybe some saline?

If the lens is properly in your eye then surely you know because the focus will be okay with that eye?

IME if the lens has slipped off anywhere you will definitely feel it, either under the lid, or in the corner of your eye when you look hard left or right. It can't go "behind the eye" as others have said. If you can't feel it I'd say its not there - what you're feeling is the irritation from the prodding and poking (been there, done every variation of that - including hunting endlessly for a lens both in my eye and all around the room only to eventually find both in the same eye. Drink may have been involved).

I did this! The contact lens wasn't in there and I was so so sure it was! You've caused the same injury I did too

I spent all night at a&e, had a nurse poke my eye with the back of a pen to try and move it before i went to the opticians when they opened at 9am. It wasn't in there

I was very embarrassed, and we never did find the lens!

I have lots of experience of this. Try these things, in the order below. Repeat if necessary.

Rinse eyes thoroughly with a stream of saline solution.

Close your eyes and move your eyeballs in circles.

Close your eye, put your finger on top of your eyelid, and gently move the eyelid back and forth, and in circles.

Make sure you are holding your eyelids open far enough, put your fingers on either side of where the lens is, and squeeze.

I've had the best luck with the eyelid-wiggling with the finger and with applying lots of saline. It's stuck and these things tend to break the seal.

Good luck!

It can't go round the back of your eye - there's a membrane preventing it. They just go under your lid.

Splash loads of water in your eyes and give it 5 mins

I did have something similar happen, the lense had actually torn and a piece disappeared behind the “back” of my eye (it can’t actually go behind your eye as pp say, it just gets lodged out of sight).

I ended up going to A & E, they were great, no biggie just gently fished it out with gloved hands, just don’t try this yourself! Hope you get it sorted one way or another!

Sorry this has happened to you
Where I live there is a dedicsted Eye and Ear hospital.
I went there one Saturday night because one of my contact lens had gone astray.
I couldn’t get it out. I knew I had put it in.
The ophthalmologist checked and said no, nothing there.
3 days later I was rubbing my eye and out it popped.
Hope yours pops out too.

I did this once, rubbing my eyes forgetting I was wearing lenses, and called my optician in a panic - his advice was to close the eye and rub the lid in circles. I’ve used this trick since and it always works (sometimes the lens scrunches up and falls out, sometimes it just slides down so you can see the edge and pull it back out). Hope this works and Merry Christmas!

I think it’s dropped out, I’m assuming you have soft lenses, most of those are coloured and would be painful crinckled in a corner somewhere.

It will pop out by itself eventually, if it has gone round the back. The contact not your eye!

In that picture you absolutely most definitely do have the lens in (Optometrist).

You may not now though. Post another photo - and I'll have a look.

Be careful putting chloramphenicol in with the lens in as it will increase the contact time with your eye.

Oh god this has brought back memories of Christmas Day in any patch about ten years ago. Thought I had forgotten to take it out after a few too many drinks on Christmas Eve and spent a few hours digging around my eye looking for it. Got it checked out and it was not there, no idea when it came out but my eye was really sore from all the looking for it. The cut would worry me though.

In this situation (just my experience) it’s always turned out that the contact lens was already out and I was scrabbling around on my eyeball trying to extricate something that wasn’t actually there.

Blink hard a few times, keep looking sharply to left and right, repeat until the lens moves to the inside corner of your eye.
The red mark is a little bleed from poking your eye and will be fine.

It’ll be right up under or below your eyelid. Look down as far as you can and get someone to look at top of eyelid then look down and repeat process till you see it!! Tgen you need to use eyelid to move it back to centre. You’ll onky be able to see a tiny bit of it as it almost disappears!

As per PP, flush and wriggle it round a few times I have had one fold up in the top under my lid.
Looks like you might have burst a little blood vessel messing around, if you're in a lot of pain or it doesn't feel right by all means get further help.
Also second using your glasses to see if your vision corrects or blurs.

That was one thing I loved about my RGPs - just flicked them out with my eyelid in .5 of a second, no fishing and groping around my eyeballs for half an hour. They were the only thing available when I first got lenses in my teens, but there was a lot to be said for them. The downside was the expense if you lost one, and the faff of cleaning them.

I’ve had a lens stuck in my eye a lot but I’ve never made it bleed like that. With that injury I would be calling 111 or going to eye A&E for some antibiotics.

When I’ve had a lens stuck before I’ve washed my eye out with saline and it’s usually worked its own way out within 24 hours or so. Uncomfortable but it has eventually come out!

I can see from looking at the picture you have the Lens in and in the correct place, you can see the outline of the lens over the edge of the iris.

I did the same once

Try this: open your eyes wide, lift your eyelid up and pull the skin under your eye down to expose as much of your eyeball as you can, then slowly keep rolling your eyes round repeatedly

I had to do this a few times but it worked eventually

Jesus, if she's had a RPG in her eye it's a bit beyond A&E !!!😃😃😃

Get a torch to look above and around your eye ball. I've had a couple of daily disposables fold over and get stuck at the top. I can gently move them back round by moving them under the eyelid and blinking.