Well, that was weird. I've been having some problems with my contact lenses since last spring; the left eye was getting irritated, so the eye doctor told me to leave them out for a while, then taken them out every night until my eye was better. (I wear Focus Night & Day, which are meant to be worn for a week at a time, then thrown away and replaced at the end of each month.) They've never really gotten completely better, so I've been wearing my glasses a lot more and have only recently been experimenting for leaving them in for one night, then taking them out the next.
But this is really odd, and it's the second time in a week. I think I'd just rubbed my lower eyelid slightly, maybe a quarter or half inch under my left eye, and next thing I know the contact lens has gotten lost in my eye. It's gone far enough back into the eye socket that I can't even see it until I roll my eye around and push on the upper lid to being it out a bit. Not a major problem, but not something I'd want to happen while driving.
And this can't be a good thing, really.
Posted by dichroic at January 11, 2006 12:17 PMYikes! What do you actually *do* when something like that happens? Does it come back eventually so you can get it out yourself, or do you have to see a doctor to get it out?
It's tales like these that make me never want to wear contact lenses ;-)
Posted by: Maria at January 12, 2006 12:47 AM