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Contact lens stuck in eye on Xmas day

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SadlyNotATroll · 25/12/2025 09:39

Posting here for traffic sorry. I rubbed my eye this morning (thank you children for the 4am wake up!) and felt my contact lens dislodge. Tried to get it out but couldn’t find it, and scratched my eyeball in the process and it bled slightly. Still can’t find the lens and have a red dot on my eyeball. It doesn’t hurt or feel like there’s anything in my eye. What can I do?

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Mumtobabyhavoc · 25/12/2025 09:47

Try to saturate your eye with saline. If you have glasses and pop them on you'll know if the lens is stuck to your eye or not because vision will be blurry in that eye. Try not to further rub your eye. If poss wear glasses for the next couple days. Visit your optometrist to examen your eyes asap. Some have urgent appts available so worthwhile to phone and find out.

For future, always have eye drops for dry eyes and make it habit to use them regularly.
Good luck. 💐

MungoforPresident · 25/12/2025 09:46

SadlyNotATroll · 25/12/2025 09:39

Posting here for traffic sorry. I rubbed my eye this morning (thank you children for the 4am wake up!) and felt my contact lens dislodge. Tried to get it out but couldn’t find it, and scratched my eyeball in the process and it bled slightly. Still can’t find the lens and have a red dot on my eyeball. It doesn’t hurt or feel like there’s anything in my eye. What can I do?

Can you ask someone else to have a good look around to try and locate it? If they can't, ring the out-of-hours GP, 111 or go to A&E.

I have first-hand experience of being (against my wishes, twice) asked to go straight to A&E for eye issues which are taken very seriously, even though to me it was minor. In both cases, the GP, then 111 said that A&E consider certain seemingly innocent eye issues an emergency and this sounds like one of them.

When I showed up at hospital both times, as it was an eye issue, they took me straight in to an ophthalmologist.

If it could be somewhere in/around the eye, then that is urgent. But ensure someone helps you look for it first.

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 25/12/2025 09:45

Have you got an sterile eye drops or saline to keep your eye hydrated ?
A couple of drops and the natural tears .

My DMum had something similar , a soft lens had torn ( she didn't think it was in her eye ) but I was near to taking her to A&E when I saw the lens in her eye .

Phone 111 yes

xxxwd · 25/12/2025 09:42

Phone 111

rubyslippers · 25/12/2025 09:42

Call 111
dont mess about with eyes

Justmuddlingalong · 25/12/2025 09:42

Call NHS 24 for advice.