Extreme pain after contact removal

[asylumxl]

Today my eye has been very sensitive to light and my contacts were irritating my eye slightly so i took them out. As soon as i took the right one out my eye started weeping heavilly, and i was in extreme pain. the pain has gone down but now my eye is extremely sensitive to night and i still get some pain.

is it possible theres something physically wrong with my cornea, that it feels better with contact in?

[GarethB]

I find removing my lens is a great relief for my right eye. Left is not an issue.

If ever you are in doubt and have discomfort, get down the ey casualty just to put your mind at ease.

I have always found them to be very helpful.

[Lynn White]

Hmmm..

This can mean you have a small abrasion on the cornea that the lens was "protecting" from the rubbing effect of the lids. As soon as the lens is removed, the eye begins to react to the abrasion. So yes, you are right.

So is Gareth, in that if it does not clear up, go seek professional advice!

Lynn

[Amarpal]

Yeh, thats how I felt when I got my corneal abrasion. Maybe should get it checked out.

[rosemary johnson]

I get that sometimes, with sclerals.
It is generally something that happens after I've had the lens if for too long, after it has started to get sore - i've left it in when the eye was starting to complain because I just *had* to get something finished.
It's something to do with abrasion on the surface of the eye under the lens - I think I once heard something about taking some of the top surface off with the lens, but don't know how accurate that is.
What's even more maddening is that the eye can feel uncomfortably sore at first, after i've taken th lens out - and then I wake up in bed a couple of hours later in agony, with the eye streaming, can't open it, can't close it, involuntary slight movements in the eyelid when *other* eye blinks hurts like hell.

Here's what I do:
get tissue to mop up tears.
gat *another* tissue to hold across eyelid to keep the eyelid still and closed (while I try to open and see out of the other, and it blinks)
go and get some Neurofen
swear heartily.

the pain and streaming normally wears off after a while, and the eye has so far been OK again after a day or so of not putting a lens in it.

resolve never again to leave contacts lenses in once they start to tell me they want to come out

Dunno if this sounds familiar, but that happens to me from time to time - normally when I forget the "good resolutions", ha ha.
Rosemary

[Andrew MacLean]

Whatever you do, rest your eye before you put your lens back in!
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