Can’t get my contact lens out.

[Stopsnowing]

It is soft. I wear it only sometimes so am out of practice. The first one came out so now I can’t see what I am doing. It feels like it came off my pupil and slid to the side of
My eye. But I can’t see. My eye is all red and watery and I just want to go to sleep
But I have to get this out first

Tip your head head right down so you are facing your legs, and try to wiggle your eye lid around a bit to get the lens to love back onto the front of the eye - if that makes any sense!

Can you put your glasses on to look?

Much sympathy, I once made my eye really sore trying to remove a contact lens that I forgot I'd already taken out (since then I always take them out before I get drunk!)

You may just have irritated your eye as well as it could have come out. Sleep with it. Your eye might be sticky in the morning but it will be fine. Call the optician first thing and they’ll usually squeeze you in to check. ( This has happened to me more than once - last time it felt like it was still in but really I’d scratched my eye fiddling around for it)

Do you have any lens solution? Put some into your eye (if it’s the all purpose type) to try and create some moisture to move things around.

On occasion with dry lens I’ve just under very wet fingers and it’s come out no problem - good luck! X

I wouldn't sleep with it in.
Especially if your eye is already red.

I dont have any special advice- except if after all the advice you get- you still aren't able.to get it out, as a last resort attend your local UCC that has an eye department.

Obviously I was supposed to say 'move' it back, not love it. Teach me to post too quickly

Ouch! Eye hospital told me to stop trying, have a cup of tea and chill a bit and the try again. You can do this! But I feel your pain, its best not to leave in overnight though but if you do go to eye hospital or optician in the morning x

Massage your eye whilst shut. That sometimes works for me. Do you have an eye bath, you might be able to flush it out. Also give it 10 minutes for your eye to calm down before further attempts to remove.

I would put some fluid in your eye, then try moving it a little.
How do you usually get it out?

Leave it ten mins then open your eye really wide without blinking, it will soon start to water and that might push it out. This has happened to me lots of times it’s really annoying.

I had this and ended up in A & E as it had folded over and over on itself and although I couldn't see it I could feel it.
They tried to persuade me that I had flipped it out without realising but I knew I hadn't and it took some persuading to make them look in the area where the pain was!

Close the eye with the contact lens in it.

Then with that eye closed look up

Look down

Look all around

Then open your eye to see if that'll get it out. I've had the same issue and this has helped sometimes or when I get something stuck in my eye.

Thanks. Got it. It had slid upwards. Eyeball rolling got it onto my pupil and then I could pinch it out.

I read somewhere once that you were meant to move it onto the white of your eye and then get it out but I always find it needs to be on my pupil.

Anyway next time I will remove them when I get in and not when I am tired!

I feel your pain. If you can make yourself cry, that will provide some lubrication and hopefully help it to move to where it should be.
It's possibly folded itself in half, in which case it is harder to get it to sit in the middle of your eye. It really is a question of patience if that's the case. It will come to the front eventually. I know it's not advised to sleep in them, but if you can't get it, that's what I'd do (and have done), and it might well naturally work its way forward.

If it's still there in the morning then go to your optician, who should easily be able to find it.

Good luck.

Ahh - too late! Glad you got it.