Surgeon Remove 27 Contact Lenses from Woman’s Eye

Doctors discovered 27 missing contact lenses in the eye of a 67-year-old woman, who went in for cataract surgery. She wasn’t experiencing any pain, just dry eyes and poorer vision in the affected eye.

“None of us have ever seen this before,” Rupal Morjaria, specialist trainee ophthalmologist, told Optometry Today.

Seventeen of the monthly disposable contact lenses were stuck together by mucus and the surgeons found 10 more loose lenses — all in the deep upper eyelid of the woman’s right eye.

“She had harbored these contact lenses in her eye for an unknown length of time,” Morjaria said. “If (contact lenses) are not appropriately monitored we see people with serious eye infections that can cause them to lose their sight.”