The 23-year-old said she was in the ‘worst pain she’d ever felt’.

    • dan1101@lemm.ee
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      7 hours ago

      The idea that the contact lens can get on the side or backside of the eyeball squicks me out.

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        Contact wearer of 20 years here. It can’t get behind the eye, that part’s a myth; there’s connective tissue surrounding the entire eyeball along the backside, so nothing’s getting through there without tearing through, and it’ll take more than a contact lens to do that.

        It can get stuck along the sides, though, but usually only if it’s folded or creased somehow when you put it in. It’s not painful, necessarily, but it is a very uncomfortable feeling; it almost feels like choking, but through your eyeballs. It triggers a gag reflex for me. But you can usually fix it by closing your eyes and gently rolling your eyes around a bit.

        It’s pretty much impossible for a lens to get stuck or “lost” in the eye. If it’s in your eye but not in the right spot, you’ll know it.

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          Yep, I’ve worn contacts since I was three years old. In my nearly 40 years of wearing them, it’s happened maybe five times that they slid to the side. There’s no reason to freak out when it happens; I usually just close my eye and gently nudge the lens back with my finger on my eyelid.

          Of course, it helps to know that it can’t physically get ‘behind your eye’ even though it certainly feels that way.

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          The worst thing I’ve encountered with contacts is when they tear in half in your eye and you remove one part but struggle to find and remove the other half. That’s happened to me a few times.