Lost contact found in woman’s eyelid 28 years later

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[BenLurkin]

Imagine going to the eye doctor because your upper eyelid is swollen and painful. The doctor tells you it’s a cyst and operates. Inside the blister, the surgeon finds a contact lens: a rigid gas-permeable one.

Starting as a pea-sized lump just below her left eyebrow, the cyst grew over a six-month period until it was visible on an MRI. In addition to swelling and later pain when touched, her left eyelid drooped.

When surgeons discovered the rigid contact, it was intact; it appeared to have been perfectly encapsulated by tissue. In the process of removing it, the contact was cracked and chipped.

The woman was bewildered. Then her mother remembered an accident when the woman was 14 years old: While playing badminton, she was hit in the left eye by a shuttlecock. She wore rigid contacts at the time, and the contact in the injured eye was never found. Because the injury resolved quickly with conservative care, the family assumed the contact had flown out of her eye and been lost.

[PGR88]

One of my motivations to get LASIK surgery.

[Doogle]

[Red Badger]

EEEWWWWW!................

[Buckeye McFrog]

While playing badminton, she was hit in the left eye by a shuttlecock. She wore rigid contacts at the time, and the contact in the injured eye was never found.

So this is on whomever treated her for that injury.

[Mr. K]

How happy are you with Lasik??

I was thinking of getting one eye done

I sometimes wear one contact in my left eye, to see far away, and leave the other contact out to read close-up.

I did this because I was always closing my left eye to read anyway, and found I did not need glasses at all if I had one contact in and one out.

[cuban leaf]

And now it is a beautiful pearl.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

To search for lost contact lenses?

[KeyLargo]

Any competent optometrist giving a full exam would have found it.

[Buttons12]

"...a beautiful pearl"

"...is only the brilliant sarcophagus of a worm."

[taxcontrol]

I have had lasik for 20 years now. Was legally blind without my glasses and was corrected to 20/20. I am now in my 50’s and vision is not what it used to be but it is still good enough to drive. I do put on readers for up close work.

[wally_bert]

Best money I ever spent.

[RikaStrom]

Loved having the LASIK. I was legally blind in both eyes (nearsighted - coke bottle lenses and everything). Corrected to 20/20.

Its now been 15 years and (and I’m 40+ years old) I have reading glasses but only use them sporadically.

For me, the money was well spent!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I remember back in the early 80’s reading about the first such procedures. They were being done in Moscow, and widely derided as “Soviet quackery”.

Now you’ve got clinics everywhere.

[donna]

A rigid contact - I remember those.

Sometimes I would lose one in my eye and get panicky. I would have to calm myself and fish it out.

[dfwgator]

I hate it when that happens.

[metmom]

You took the word right out of my mouth........

[gigster]

I was hit in the left temple by a fast racquetball over thirty years ago in Detroit. It shattered my aviator prescription glasses’ lens and left a deep gash that took four stitches to close.I was lucky the glass didn’t pierce my eye.

[Red Badger]

That’s not quite as bad as the guy who had a worm in his eyeball, though................

[hirn_man]

I had a pair of gas permeable lenses. I have bad astigmatism. They would pop out, go back under my eyelid, and getting a speck of dust under one was agonizing.

I was really happy when a new optometrist told me he could fit me with a pair of soft lenses.