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The use of contact lenses (softlens) has certain rules or ways of wearing that each user must obey. For example, you are not advised to sleep wearing contact lenses, and must observe when wearing contact lenses. Because it is feared, the contact lens will change position and enter the back of the eye. Can you or not?
Can the contact lens get behind the eye?
Normally, contact lenses or lenses are used right in front of the eyeball. It's just that, you may have experienced or just heard that contact lenses can also move and travel around the eyeball.
This then raises questions about the possibility of the contact lens moving and getting into the back of the eyeball. Especially if you have lost your contact lens once in a while, and are anxious if it moves behind your eyes.
The good news, according to Gary Heiting, OD, an ophthalmologist, is that the lenses that move into the back of the eye are actually unlikely. Sometimes, the contact lens may come off the eyeball which is protected by a layer of the cornea (eye shield).
The contact lens may move on the lower eyelid. However, the movement of soft lenses is usually only around the eyelids and will not go too far, let alone get into the back of the eyeball.
This is because on the inner surface of the eyelids, there is a thin, clear, moist layer called the conjunctiva. The conjunctiva can help with the small sac, which is located between the eyelid and the eye that is filled with tears.
While on the back of the eyelid, the conjunctiva forms a fold back. In other words, the conjunctiva can be the outer covering for the white part of the eyeball, citing The University of Illinois College of Medicine.
When the contact lenses or lenses you are using appear to be missing, they generally only reach the edge or end of the conjunctival sac, not into the back of the eyeball.
Complete protection of the conjunctiva from the eyelid to the eyeball, making it impossible for anything, including lenses, to get into the back of the eye. Moreover, until it is trapped and difficult to get out of there.
How do you get a "disappearing" contact lens?
When you are using a contact lens but it seems you suddenly do not find the contact lens on the eyeball, you may suspect the lens moves and gets into the back of the eye.
In fact, the habit of rubbing your eyes or accidentally bumping your eyes while using contact lenses can make them shift.
This may trigger the lens to fold in half, and then detach from the cornea of the eye. The folded lens may get caught in the upper or lower eyelid, making it appear as if it is missing.
To make it easier, try to feel if there is a foreign object stuck in the eyelid or the surrounding area? If this happens, you can return the "lost" contact lens, or think it has entered the back of the eyeball, by placing eye drops for the soft lens.
Next, gently massage the upper or lower eyelid, the place where the contact lens feels stuck. Do this while you close your eyes. Usually, the contact lens will move to an eye position where you can see it again.
Immediately remove the contact lens, and you should first avoid using the contact lens for a while. If when you take it out of the eye, the contact lens is folded in half, try soaking it in contact lens water for some time.
After that, you can open the soft lens folds slowly to restore it to its original shape. Do not forget, try to be more careful when using contact lenses so that the "loss" of contact lenses when used does not happen again.
