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Surgeon Finds 27 Contact Lenses In Woman's Eye

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16-07-2017 | 11:51

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Surgeon Finds 27 Contact Lenses In Woman's Eye

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For anyone who wears contact lenses, this story will come from the darkest depths of your most haunting nightmares.

A 67-year-old woman was due to have cataract surgery at a the West Midlands, but before the surgery could even begin the surgeons discovered something truly horrifying.

17 contact lenses were found in the eye of the patient and had melded together in what Optometry Today reports as a "blueish mass."

To make matters worse, upon a second inspection a further 10 were found in the same eye, bringing the grand total to 27.

However, the patient was unaware of the missing lenses and thought the discomfort might have been due to old age or a dry eye.

The team working on the operation, which included an ophthalmologist with 20 years of experience, said that they had never seen anything like this.

The patient in question had been wearing disposable lenses for 35 years but had not been attending regular optician appointments.

Despite this, her pre-operative assessment did not report any symptoms that are usually linked to missing lenses.

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