Surgeons find 27 contact lenses in woman’s eye

The doctors were shocked to find such number of contact lenses on one eye

Surgeons find 27 contact lenses in woman’s eye

Jul - 21 - 2017 , 09:54

“None of us have ever seen this before,” said Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee ophthalmologist, who dealt with the bizarre case.

“It was such a large mass. All the 17 contact lenses were stuck together. We were really surprised that the patient didn’t notice it because it would cause quite a lot of irritation while it was sitting there.”

Asked how she could bear living with many contact lenses in her eye, the 67-year-old woman told doctors that she was unaware that so many other contact lenses were missing, and that she thought the discomfort was caused by dry eyes and old age.

“I was quite shocked,” Ms Morjaria told Optometry Today.

“When she was seen two weeks after she removed the lenses she said her eyes felt a lot more comfortable. She thought her previous discomfort was just part of old age and dry eye.”