Contact lens stuck in eye on Xmas day

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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?

Hope you've got it sorted by now, but if not... I agree it looks like it's in the outer corner. When my lenses have slipped before I have closed my eyes and rolled my pupil round lots of times i.e. eyes shut, stare up, right, down,left repeat lots. It often catches the stray lens and either puts it in the right place or pops it out. Don't rub or touch the eyelid. Good luck!

Don't keep at it. I was in the optician once and there was a person there who thought their contact lens was stuck in their eye and kept trying to remove it. The lens had fallen out unnoticed and they were damaging their eye.

They would. It’s a scratch to the eyeball.

I wear soft contact lenses so not this is what works for me. Lie down and put lots of saline drops in. Then close you eyes and relax. After about 20 mins I blink a bit and the contact lens comes to somewhere I can easily get it out.

if that doesn’t work then probably A&E

This regularly happens to me move your eye up down and from side to side. Put some saline or contact lens solution in and keep doing that, rolling your eyes around and eventually it will come out , it's most likely folded up so it will come out of the side or the upper part of the eye. It can't go anywhere else and it will come out. This happened to me overnight once but generally a bit of saline and rolling your eye around nothing is going to happen to you if it remains behind your eye but this is unlikely
The blood spot on your eye is where you have burst. The blood vessel is nothing to worry about, if it doesn't come out I would have a good look at where you were where it went missing because it may have fell out

Why have you posted this in AIBU
This regularly happens to me move your eye up down and from side to side. Put some saline or contact lens solution in and keep doing that, rolling your eyes around and eventually it will come out , it's most likely folded up so it will come out of the side or the upper part of the eye. It can't go anywhere else and it will come out. This happened to me overnight once but generally a bit of saline and rolling your eye around nothing is going to happen to you if it remains behind your eye for the day but this is unlikely

Thanks all, like I said I posted here for traffic @Bananaslushie

i am going to have one last go with lots of saline. I’ve scoured the floor, my pyjamas, even the bed to see if I can find it anywhere and no luck. It was definitely in my eye and I’m fairly sure it hasn’t come out. Will give up and go to specsavers tomorrow if I can’t find anything. It’s not hurting or bothering me at all and I’ve got some antibiotic eye drops from a recent infection that I have put in too. Wish me luck

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.

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

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

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’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!

No I don’t have the lens in, it’s just a ring around my eyeball. It’s the same on the other eye too, just the way my eyes are.

well I couldn’t get anything out. I’m going to give up and hope for the best. Thanks all for your advice and merry Christmas!

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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!

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 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!