An ophthalmologist removed 23 lenses that were jammed up “like a stack of pancakes” from under a person’s eyelid.
since the fourth grade, and, I confess, I’ve spent more than a night or two in mine. It usually happens when I’m reading a book in bed at the end of the day—sometimes it’s simply too hard to force myself out from under the covers just to pluck them out. But thanks to a video that recently went viral on TikTok, I won’t be making excuses anymore.Katerina Kurteeva, MD
, removing not one, not two, but 23 contact lenses from under a person’s eyelid. Dr. Kurteeva had already removed about two lenses from the person’s right eye before she started filming the process. “There’s a whole wad…. We may have to count them. I think I’ve already counted more than 10 or 12,” she said in the video, while gently prodding the lenses out from under the eyelid with a cotton swab. “Oh, come on. I can’t believe you,” the person said. Dr. Kurteeva even joked that her patient could be in a Guinness World Records book.And how did the person in the video not realize so many were jammed under their eyelid?in Los Angeles to clarify what happened.
Dr. Kurteeva also noted that her patient’s age may have exacerbated things here, explaining that as people get older, the pockets of their upper eyelids become deeper because you naturally lose fat around your eyes over time. “All those contact lenses were able to hide like a stack of pancakes really far deep inside in the least sensitive part of the eye,” she said.
The lesson here, of course, is to always take your contacts out at night before you go to sleep. In addition to potential redness and irritation, sleeping in contacts can also up your risk of developing an eye infection, per the
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