Doctors baffled as they find 27 contact lenses lodged in a 'forgetful' woman's eye when she...

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Doctors baffled as they find 27 contact lenses lodged in a 'forgetful' woman's eye when she went in for cataract surgery
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Speaking with Optometry Today, Rupal Morjaria, a specialist trainee ophthalmologist who dealt with the case at Solihull Hospital near Birmingham, said the huge lump of lenses shocked doctors. She said: “None of us have ever seen this before. It was ...

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[h.c. jang]

Fake news:

" The woman, 67, who had been wearing disposable lenses for 35 years, had been suffering from discomfort which she thought was caused by dry eyes and old age."

Disposable contact lenses weren't around 35 years ago.

 

[Joe DiGiorgio O.D.]

Lets see...is the average SCL like 70 um so assuming the lens is in SITU, it is not dehydrated.

So 70 um each x 35 lense is about 2,500 um or about 4-5 times the thickness of the cornea. That is a lot of bulk. That is also a lot of bull.

(Kiener is my math correct?)

 

[joel b. goldberg]

Lets see...is the average SCL like 70 um so assuming the lens is in SITU, it is not dehydrated.

So 70 um each x 35 lense is about 2,500 um or about 4-5 times the thickness of the cornea. That is a lot of bulk. That is also a lot of bull.

(Kiener is my math correct?)

"Fake news?" or truth is stranger than fiction?

Probably she never got removal technique down pat...

or maybe she was saving them... an original B&L B3 might be worth something on eBay

 

[h.c. jang]

Hey just tell your patients that freak out because they think that the contact lens they dropped is inside their eye that a lady lost 27 of them in her eye and didn't know until she had some other procedure done and was found by accident. That'll calm then down.

 

[Joe DiGiorgio O.D.]

Right H.C. If they only lost 1 in their eye, there is apparently a room for a lot more. You can even include references.

 

[Merrill Bowan]

And what would the power be of even 17 lenses stacked on each other?

 

[Andrew Gore]

We had another thread with the same topic a couple of years ago and I was not able to find it.

 

[JAMES CALDERWOOD]

It looks like a legitimate story;

 

[h.c. jang]

Wasn't saying it was really fake. Just that the reporter, the savior of the free world, didn't know what he was talking about.

 

[Joe DiGiorgio O.D.]

And what would the power be of even 17 lenses stacked on each other?

Or were they in the cul-de sacs

Do more lenses provide more vision?

 

[Ronald Bodman]

I had a lady a few years back come in with 6 or 7 lenses in one eye. She thought she had none on because she couldn't see and wanted me to check to be sure. She was messed up on all kinds of prescription meds.

 

[Alan David]

Maybe her usual Rx was -6.75 and she was out of CL's, so she did the math and used 27 of her son's -0.25 dailies?
Facebook told her you could do this.

4 is my personal record for CL's in one eye by a patient.

 

[Alan Rophie]

Was this a 1-800 contact lens consumer?

 

[Kimberly Osborne]

I hope this is legit because it hit the mainstream media today. I heard about it on HLN and on the radio.
I bet this lady didn't want to be famous over this!!!

 

[Mark Zaremba]

I had a lady a few years back come in with 6 or 7 lenses in one eye. She thought she had none on because she couldn't see and wanted me to check to be sure. She was messed up on all kinds of prescription meds.

I had a very similar patient. Looking at her from a few feet away, one eye looked much bluer than the other.

 

[Jeff Kiener]

Maybe I'll try that, Mark. Many of my patients are asking for translucent tints, and they're not made anymore.

 

[Mark Zaremba]

Maybe I'll try that, Mark. Many of my patients are asking for translucent tints, and they're not made anymore.

Nice. Just make sure you indicate on the Rx, "One six-pack per eye, insert all six at the same time."

 

[Kevin Wallace]

I had a lady a few years back come in with 6 or 7 lenses in one eye. She thought she had none on because she couldn't see and wanted me to check to be sure. She was messed up on all kinds of prescription meds.

I had a funny one a few years back. Local general practitioner called me asking to see a patient of hers as she thought she may have glaucoma. "Sure" I thought but when she described a few months history of one uncomfortable red eye, worse in the morning, gradually resolves, vision a bit fuzzy in that eye it sounded plausible so I fitted her in.

Didn't take long to see a contact lens sitting right on her cornea. "How long have you worn contact lenses for?" "I don't wear contact lenses." "Well there's one in your eye." "How did that get there?" "How the $€¥% would I know!" Round and round like that for a few minutes until she remembered having a contact lens trial about 6/12 prior. She was told she wasn't suitable as they couldn't get a lens in her eyes - turns out that they had - they just forgot to take it out again.

10 minutes after removal eye white and quiet. Quick look at her glasses and she was only about +0.75 so that explained the slight blur.

"Maybe I'll go back and try contact lenses again."

""Maybe you should go somewhere else to try them again!"

 

[Adam Lusk]

Lets see...is the average SCL like 70 um so assuming the lens is in SITU, it is not dehydrated.

So 70 um each x 35 lense is about 2,500 um or about 4-5 times the thickness of the cornea. That is a lot of bulk. That is also a lot of bull.

http://www.bmj.com/content/358/bmj.j2783 (needs subscription or free trial)

Seems weird it wasn't picked up pre-op/biometry etc. And it was the anaesthetist who discovered it!