The 23-year-old said she was in the ‘worst pain she’d ever felt’.
I have no idea how something like that didn’t happen to me.
I used to wear 30-day disposable contacts for like 3-4 months without ever taking them out. Would just squeeze the cleaning solution directly into my eyes every morning, give them a few heavy blinks, and then rinse with the saline.
I wasn’t expecting that, that is literally insane.
Looking back, definitely lol.
At the time I was a lazy teenager / college student and just didn’t really think about it. I was also poor + without insurance so had to make them last. Usually when one would tear, it would be when I was taking them out / putting them in.
The metro is a rag, not a newspaper
I like how they showed the same picture twice to make sure we saw more of her body
You can wipe your ass with both.
Did the contacts really make a difference here or is swimming in affected waters the main hazard?
Wear goggles when you go swimming.
Beach trip where? Pls specify so i can dodge that place. And could this parasite not infect the eye without contact lenses aswell?
i think the implication is that the contacts kept the parasite in contact with the cornea giving them time to work into the cornea through small tears, which often occur with people who wear contacts.
I guess that makes sense. Poor woman.
Reasons I’m too squeamish for contacts #407
Just the idea of touching my eye with my finger… I realize there’s a contact lens between them, but that doesn’t really change the ickiness of the idea to me.
Me too. And to be honest, the simple idea of a contact constantly sitting on my eyeball makes me squirm.
The idea that the contact lens can get on the side or backside of the eyeball squicks me out.
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.
I’m also a contact wearer and had to explain this to my friend since he was thinking of getting contacts. He saw this video and decided against them. Lol
https://nypost.com/2022/10/14/video-shows-doctor-removing-23-contacts-from-womans-eye/
Thank you for this new fear.
Thank you for this new fear.
It gets better!
In around 40% of cases doctors have to perform surgery, which involves scraping the outside of the eye to remove the parasites and repairing the area through transplant.
Now I’ve had quite a few unpleasant procedures in my time, but that sounds like something I would really love to be knocked out for.
But because it’s eyes, idk if they need the patient conscious. Ugh…
That also happened to the avant-pop musician Momus (in Greece, some time in the 90s). It was featured in a BBC documentary, IIRC.
