Stupid question about contacts...or anatomy??
Question: This may sound really dumb, but can contacts theoretically get stuck in or around the back of your eye? I've thought about getting contacts but this has always stuck in the back of my head (pun intended). I mean, if the contact comes out and your roll your eye could it get stuck somewhere unreachable. Also, how uncomfortable are they? I have 20/20 vision so they wouldn't be prescription.
Answers: First off they WOULD be prescription because you can only get them legally with a prescription. having no correction is a small part of the equation. There are base curves and diameters and all sorts of things to look at in fitting contacts. Whether they have power or not on the lenses does not mean that you do not need a prescription. For the rest of the question, there is a little picket just above your eye they can get stuck in, but they do not stay up there long when it happens. Mostly they stay on your cornea if they were fit right by your doctor. Your eye system is enclosed in a little baggie like membrane. Things can not get stuck in your head. Check out the picture of the side veiw of how your eye looks in the source I have listed! It is pretty cool! Do not be scared to get contacts and only your doctor can fit you right. Got it?
No contacts cant get stuck in the back of your eye for a variety of reasons. An eye is made ina way where it is protected from things by the liquid that is orund your eye therefore nothing can get in. Also if anything has gone too far in you will start blinking and it will come out. Also the optic nerve and other variety of vessels and nerves will not let anything to get stuck on the back of your eye. Contacts feel weired at first and in the beginning its a pain to put them in, but you will get used to them if you do it enough
lol...there's been several occasions that i have lost my contact in my eye. yes, it can be scary. i always get them out. actually, it just becomes routine. i don't find them uncomfortable except when i've been wearing them all day. my eyes get tired. because you have 20/20 you would get non-prescription contacts.
well first off no question is stupid. You just were never told about it. So no they can't get stuck where its unreachable. Now yes they can get back there where its difficult to get them and you need to go to the Dr to get it out. That rarely happends, but usually tahts when people will sleep with them or if their eye is extremely dried out. I have had them for over 18 yrs and it has never happened to me and for the last say 7 years I have been sleeping with mine as well. I just make sure I have my re wetting drops near by for in the morning.
I was actually in the eye dr's office one time when a teenager and his mom came in claiming that his contact had gone behind his eye and they told him it was impossible.
When you look at someones eye, you can see the colored part. Seems a lot of people aren't happy with the color of their eyes and want to wear contacts to change their appearance. And more than one person has asked if these things can get stuck behind the eye.
The cornea, the clear part on the surface of which you place a contact lens has a covering called the epithelium. This layer is continued onto the white part of the eye onto a membrane called the conjunctiva.
The conjunctiva has lots of vessels in it. It can get very inflamed, red, puffy...when those vessels become dilated. Beneath this membrane is the white part of the eye and there's actually a space between the conjunctiva and the eyeball which has yet another layer called Tenon's membrane or capsule.
The conjunctiva goes over the surface of the eyeball till it gets way up under the lid, or way down under the lower lid, or way off to the side. There it reflects or turns back towards the lid and coats the under surface of the eyelids. This sac is called the conjunctival sac. There's one up, and one down.
Soooo, contacts can move off the surface of the cornea and slide themselves up under the lid, upper or lower, and move all the way back into that reflection or sac. I've seen people with 4 lenses stuck up under the upper lid (And I didn't think that was possible), but kept taking one out after the other.
These lenses are usually the soft kind, as I've never seen anyone with more than one 'hard' lens that was 'stuck' up under the lid. Most contact lens wearers become very good at finding and retrieving displaced lenses themselves.
no they can't get stuck and you can't get contacts without presciption if you can its illigal and they are very confortible when you get used to them talk to your eye doctor cuz different brand of contacts are made out of different matierals which can be be more comfortible to one person and not another if you have 20/20 vision you don't need comtacts you have perfect vision if you wear contacts and have perfect vision it could screw up your eyes
No. Not a stupid question. no they can get stuck behind your eye lid, but not behind the eyeball. Some are comfortable, some are not. Why put your eyes at risk for an infection if you see well??
Answers: First off they WOULD be prescription because you can only get them legally with a prescription. having no correction is a small part of the equation. There are base curves and diameters and all sorts of things to look at in fitting contacts. Whether they have power or not on the lenses does not mean that you do not need a prescription. For the rest of the question, there is a little picket just above your eye they can get stuck in, but they do not stay up there long when it happens. Mostly they stay on your cornea if they were fit right by your doctor. Your eye system is enclosed in a little baggie like membrane. Things can not get stuck in your head. Check out the picture of the side veiw of how your eye looks in the source I have listed! It is pretty cool! Do not be scared to get contacts and only your doctor can fit you right. Got it?
No contacts cant get stuck in the back of your eye for a variety of reasons. An eye is made ina way where it is protected from things by the liquid that is orund your eye therefore nothing can get in. Also if anything has gone too far in you will start blinking and it will come out. Also the optic nerve and other variety of vessels and nerves will not let anything to get stuck on the back of your eye. Contacts feel weired at first and in the beginning its a pain to put them in, but you will get used to them if you do it enough
lol...there's been several occasions that i have lost my contact in my eye. yes, it can be scary. i always get them out. actually, it just becomes routine. i don't find them uncomfortable except when i've been wearing them all day. my eyes get tired. because you have 20/20 you would get non-prescription contacts.
well first off no question is stupid. You just were never told about it. So no they can't get stuck where its unreachable. Now yes they can get back there where its difficult to get them and you need to go to the Dr to get it out. That rarely happends, but usually tahts when people will sleep with them or if their eye is extremely dried out. I have had them for over 18 yrs and it has never happened to me and for the last say 7 years I have been sleeping with mine as well. I just make sure I have my re wetting drops near by for in the morning.
I was actually in the eye dr's office one time when a teenager and his mom came in claiming that his contact had gone behind his eye and they told him it was impossible.
When you look at someones eye, you can see the colored part. Seems a lot of people aren't happy with the color of their eyes and want to wear contacts to change their appearance. And more than one person has asked if these things can get stuck behind the eye.
The cornea, the clear part on the surface of which you place a contact lens has a covering called the epithelium. This layer is continued onto the white part of the eye onto a membrane called the conjunctiva.
The conjunctiva has lots of vessels in it. It can get very inflamed, red, puffy...when those vessels become dilated. Beneath this membrane is the white part of the eye and there's actually a space between the conjunctiva and the eyeball which has yet another layer called Tenon's membrane or capsule.
The conjunctiva goes over the surface of the eyeball till it gets way up under the lid, or way down under the lower lid, or way off to the side. There it reflects or turns back towards the lid and coats the under surface of the eyelids. This sac is called the conjunctival sac. There's one up, and one down.
Soooo, contacts can move off the surface of the cornea and slide themselves up under the lid, upper or lower, and move all the way back into that reflection or sac. I've seen people with 4 lenses stuck up under the upper lid (And I didn't think that was possible), but kept taking one out after the other.
These lenses are usually the soft kind, as I've never seen anyone with more than one 'hard' lens that was 'stuck' up under the lid. Most contact lens wearers become very good at finding and retrieving displaced lenses themselves.
no they can't get stuck and you can't get contacts without presciption if you can its illigal and they are very confortible when you get used to them talk to your eye doctor cuz different brand of contacts are made out of different matierals which can be be more comfortible to one person and not another if you have 20/20 vision you don't need comtacts you have perfect vision if you wear contacts and have perfect vision it could screw up your eyes
No. Not a stupid question. no they can get stuck behind your eye lid, but not behind the eyeball. Some are comfortable, some are not. Why put your eyes at risk for an infection if you see well??
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