Chinese Man Kept In Contact Lenses For A Year

A Chinese man has had to have his contact lenses removed the hard way - surgically - after he did not take them out for more than a year.

Forty year-old Liu says he started to wear contact lenses a little over a year ago and never took them out because he "found it difficult".

He said: "I only have some eye drops for when they feel uncomfortable".

But recently he felt his eyesight was getting worse, so he bought another pair of lenses and wore them on top of the old ones.

Seeing that his eyesight still didn't improve, he had another bright idea.

"I put a pair of used disposal contact lenses over the other two pairs in my eyes. By then, I was wearing three pairs of lenses".

By the next day, Liu's condition was only worse and he finally decided to get medical help. The doctor was shocked to find the first lenses had been in so long that they had grown into his eyes, and needed surgery to be taken out.

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