A TikTok user shared a dramatic story of losing an eye via the social network.all for abuse of contact lenses.
“One day I woke up with a burning pain in my right eye. At first I thought it was conjunctivitis. When I went for a check up the next day, I was surprised. not conjunctivitis“The user who commented is jarvisness.
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Immediately afterwards, he commented that the diagnosis was very depressing: what he really had was corneal ulcer “Due to the misuse of contact lenses”.
treatment is not enough
Since then, he said, he has started receiving therapy to address the conditions that bother him. “What we were looking for was to save the eye, but from the start there was a very bad prognosis“.
After one week of treatment with eye drops, respectively, the eyes were severely irritated. In the video shared on the social network, the youngster shows what his eyeballs look like over time.
As the days passed, the ulcers became more and more apparent. At the same time, he had to cover the affected eye because he saw very little with it and had to use the other eye exclusively, blaming some of the treatments for not being effective.
Finally, the affected person noted that by the fourth week the damage was clearly visible, noting that he experienced severe pain as a result. “It was such an intense pain that it literally kept me from sleeping. At night, if I open my eyes a little, water drips, uncontrollable tears. said the young man.
Despite intensive treatment, the injury was gaining more and more attention, so finally paramedics decided to perform surgery to prevent the eye from being perforated.
abuse of contact lenses
When specifying the relationship between contact lens use and his complication, he explained that, in general, he was responsible for contact lens use. However, he warned that “It’s easy for me to fall asleep while wearing contact lenses’. ‘If you’re lazy, don’t wear contact lenses,’ he concluded.
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