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Don't panic. It will work its way back round to the front, and you'll probably blink it out.

I've had a contact lens slip round the back before. Now that was scary.

I'm pretty certain things can't physically get 'behind' your eyeball. When I wore contact lenses, once in a while I'd get one stuck way behind the upper reaches of my eyelid, so it was right at the top of my eyeball. I could usually dislodge it by lifting my upper eyelid and looking down whilst I poked about with my finger. Clearly an eyelash is smaller and so less easy to get hold of.

Not being an expert, but I'd say it's worth trying to get it out somehow if it's still in there, as it will no doubt cause some irritation, and potentially some infection. Perhaps you could try getting an eye-bath from the chemists, in the hope that you can wash it out.

It never ceases to amaze me how clever we actually are, the eye's ability to say "Oi, get out" to foreign objects being an example. I was riding down the hill on my bike as a child, a leaf went into my eye, forgot about it after a while, and the next morning I woke up to see the said leaf sitting on the pillow next to me.

Perhaps the leaf decided to leave.

DAS wrote:It never ceases to amaze me how clever we actually are, the eye's ability to say "Oi, get out" to foreign objects being an example. I was riding down the hill on my bike as a child, a leaf went into my eye, forgot about it after a while, and the next morning I woke up to see the said leaf sitting on the pillow next to me.

I'm thinking it was a small leaf or you have an eye like the cameraman puppet on Spitting Image.

Gavin Scott wrote:I've had a contact lens slip round the back before. Now that was scary.

Me too - and "lost" one there for a couple of days on more than one ocassion. They do eventually work their way out, all folded up and practically useless!

I always found that the more I tried to struggle to get it out on my own the worse I made the situation, and my somewhat "morning-after, red-eyed appearance"

Same thing happened to me yesterday playing rugby - no idea what it was - but eventually it just went.

I often get hair in my eyes, one of the hazards of my job along with hair splinters in various parts of my body. I find that using the corner of a damp tissue gets them out of my eye before they make a journey round to the back of my eyeball. The worst ever experience was when a hair got into my tear duct. That was a hell of a job to get out, it took a steady hand and a fine pair of tweezers to remove it.

I do wash my eyes regularly with optrex. It is amazing though how the human body rejects foreign objects eventually.

Eargh , eargh, quezzy feeling, ahh!

:S!

Rob Del Monte wrote:Eargh , eargh, quezzy feeling, ahh!

:S!

have you just got your punctuation stuck behind your eye?

Haha