Doctors Report Removing 27 Contact Lenses From A Woman's Eye

[Tennesseer]

It never dawned on her to remove them?

Doctors Report Removing 27 Contact Lenses From A Woman's Eye

It wasn't old age, or disease: A "bluish foreign body" that was found in an English woman's eye turned out to be a mass of contact lenses, surprising medical staff who were preparing the woman, 65, for routine cataract surgery. They report pulling 27 lenses from the woman's eye.

"She was quite shocked," specialist trainee ophthalmologist Rupal Morjaria tells Britain's Optometry Today.

Morjaria says she and her colleagues were startled to find 17 contact lenses clumped together as they were injecting anesthesia into the woman's eye at Solihull Hospital, southeast of Birmingham. They then recovered another 10 lenses. Part of their surprise, she said, was because the patient hadn't complained of any irritation.

"When she was seen two weeks after I removed the lenses she said her eyes felt a lot more comfortable," Morjaria tells Optometry Today. "She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry eye.

"The woman had not complained about problems other than cataracts, according to the report Morjaria and others published in the British Medical Journal. The patient had been wearing monthly disposable contact lenses for some 35 years, she said.

Complete article here: Doctors Report Removing 27 Contact Lenses From A Woman's Eye

[Green Eyed Lady]

Maybe she thought there were dissolvable instead of disposable?

[billisonboard]

The patient had been wearing monthly disposable contact lenses for some 35 years, she said.

Have they been available for 35 years?

[ken a.k.a OMK]

How did they not know her problem was contact lenses and not cataracts before surgery? 

[bean29]

I stopped wearing contact lenses because the last prescription I got I would insert my contact lenses, and the contact would disappear in one eye. I could feel it under my lid, but it would take a few hours to a day for it to roll back down so I could remove it. Over the years I occasionally had this happen, but it got to the point that I just could not wear them anymore.  I have been diagnosed with very dry eyes also. 

So apparently her vision was cloudy from the stray contact lenses and the Dr's said it was cataracts, but when they went in to do the surgery, they realized it was a contact lens, not a cataract.

[Green Eyed Lady]

I'm stunned at the doctors myself. I know when my mom had cataracts removed, they did like 2 hours of measuring, etc, before the surgery. They said they had to do this to order the proper artificial lens to replace the cloudy one they were removing. How do they not see these contacts during two hours of examining the eye prior to surgery?

[thyme4change]

It is nice to know the idiots aren't a unique problem to the US

[empress of self-improvement]

Jul 17, 2017 9:14:04 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

The patient had been wearing monthly disposable contact lenses for some 35 years, she said.

Have they been available for 35 years?

Yep, they have. I got them in high school which was 20mumble mumble7mumble mumble years ago and they had been around since I was in elementary school.

I stopped wearing them because I had a bad habit of falling asleep in my college classes and they would dry out and pop out of my eyes. It gets to be a real pain in the ass trying to find a faint blue piece of plastic with one eye in crappy light. I gave up and went back to glasses.

[kittensaver]

Ewwwwwwww . . . .

[NomoreDramaQ1015]

How was she not in massive amounts of pain?   My eyeball starts twitching just thinking about it.

[ZaireinHD]

I think I do not understand this story when I saw it on the news. it just does not make any since. cause it sounds like she put a contact lens over the contact lens she already had in her eye? but how is that possible when the previous contact would move around. also after some time of stacking lenses. I would think her eye lids would have difficulty closing? and I think he eye lids would pinch off the extras. meaning after stacking 3 or 4 or 5. the 6 lens would pop off when blinking. though she was receiving a mail order. so does that lead to no one told her she has to take out the lens before putting in the new?

I'm just confused cause people just can't be this...

[countrygirl2]

And I'm wondering how incompetent the doctors and techs were not to notice this before.

I'm thinking this story is a hoax.

[gooddecisions]

I have absent mindedly put two contact lenses in the same eye. My vision was instantly blurrier than it is was with nothing in it. I suspect the lenses were not in her pupil, but somewhere at the top of her eye socket. 27 is crazy.

[toomuchreality]

Although it would be difficult, I could forgive a person for being this ignorant. Maybe. I'm not sure I could forgive a doctor for not catching this, long before surgery!  

[ZaireinHD]

Jul 18, 2017 18:42:09 GMT -5 countrygirl2 said:

And I'm wondering how incompetent the doctors and techs were not to notice this before.

I'm thinking this story is a hoax.

 

LOL - I was started to get angry  

HOAX!

[countrygirl2]

Yeah when it sounds to crazy to be true, it generally is not.

[dannylion]

Jul 18, 2017 18:35:10 GMT -5 ZaireinHD said:

I think I do not understand this story when I saw it on the news. it just does not make any since. cause it sounds like she put a contact lens over the contact lens she already had in her eye? but how is that possible when the previous contact would move around. also after some time of stacking lenses. I would think her eye lids would have difficulty closing? and I think he eye lids would pinch off the extras. meaning after stacking 3 or 4 or 5. the 6 lens would pop off when blinking. though she was receiving a mail order. so does that lead to no one told her she has to take out the lens before putting in the new?

I'm just confused cause people just can't be this...

I found this confusing, as well. The only way it would make sense was if the lenses were lodged up under the eyelid, not directly in the line of vision, but that many lenses would make a big lump in the eyelid, and surely an ophthalmologist would notice. That many lenses stuck up under the eyelid would be very uncomfortable, in any event, and any normal person would have sought treatment for the discomfort.   

On the other hand, there is no limit to the cluelessness of people, so who knows, this could be true.