[GODREKR]

[Rcuca909]

[KnightmareNurse]

[mandapanda]

Does this lady have dementia or is she purposely trying to see how many she can stack in there? How do you not go to the dr after you lose the first one?

[marcos_69]

How did she get this far in life...

[acid_punx]

Women

[kellyhound]

like a stack of pancakes

a patient in her mid-70s who wore daily contact lenses came in saying she felt she had something in her eye that she couldn't get out.

Even though we ask seniors to come in once a year for checkups, this woman had skipped appointments and hadn't been to the office in two years. Although her vision was blurry, it was the pain that bothered her most.

My mind jumped to the possibilities of what it could be: a piece of broken contact lens, a scratch on the cornea, an infection, an eyelash, or debris from makeup. I'd only know for sure once I did the examination.

To start, I used an anesthetic and a yellow stain to identify any scratches or foreign bodies. I couldn't see anything on the cornea from the initial examination, so I proceeded to manually pull on the lower and upper lids to see if there was anything in the upper or lower fornix. These are the deep corners of the eye, like little pockets of the eyelid, where things occasionally get stuck.

I didn't see much — just a little bit of mucous, which could be a natural response to irritation. I was puzzled.

To continue my investigation, I used an instrument called an eyelid speculum that would keep both the upper and lower lid open at the same time for a longer period of time, so I could freely use my hands to find out what was going on.

When I asked her to look down, I could see the edges of a couple of contacts stuck to each other. Pulling them out, I felt like I could still see more and asked my assistant to get my phone to record the removal.

Asking the patient to look down again, I could see a huge, dark-purple blob of contact lenses stuck to her eye. It almost looked like a second pupil. I gently started using a Q-tip to peel the lenses apart one by one, like you would deal a deck of cards. They were coming out in a chain, drooping down her lid. There were a lot of contact lenses — I thought this could be my Guinness Book of World Record moment.

In nearly 20 years of practice, I had never seen anything like it.

The patient couldn't believe it either and asked if I was sure about the number I was counting.

After we had removed the biggest blob, we retrieved a few more from the corners, carefully flushed her eye out with distilled, sterile water, removed some of the mucous, and sent her home with anti-inflammatory drops. She said she felt much better already.

Laying out the contacts on a tissue, I separated each one with fine-tip forceps and counted 23 contact lenses. Some of them were yellow and some light blue, because while the natural color of a contact lens is light blue, the stain I put in her eyes to examine had colored some of the lenses yellow.

I posted the video of the examination, and it went viral straight away. Optometrists from South America, Mexico, and Europe were using the video to educate people about making sure they take their daily contact lenses out of their eyes every single night. These are light, flimsy lenses and should not be used for more than 24 hours.

[v1r]

When my contacts get stuck in that exact spot I just have to look directly down to the side and lift my eyelid and it normally pops out by itself.

[LadyNightmare]

I never could wear contacts. I can't stand anything in my eye, not even water! Just watching the video made my eyes water! I just don't know why a woman of that age would not think there was a problem after the first few contacts went missing!!

[v1r]

Originally Posted by LadyNightmare ↗

I never could wear contacts. I can't stand anything in my eye, not even water! Just watching the video made my eyes water! I just don't know why a woman of that age would not think there was a problem after the first few contacts went missing!!

If you have never tried contacts (soft ones), you really do not feel them at all. It feels exactly like if you had no contacts in. But I understand not wanting anything in your eye still.