Doctor fishes ‘bizarre’ discovery out of woman’s eye in viral California TikTok video
When a woman went to get her eyes checked, Dr. Katerina Kurteeva found a shocking surprise under her patient’s eyelid.
The eye was littered with contact lenses.
Using a Q-tip, Kurteeva records herself fishing one contact lens after another. Then another, and another and another.
There were 23 contacts in the woman’s eye, Kurteeva said on her Instagram page in September.
“I have carefully separated all the contact lenses and counted total of 23. I had to use very fine surgical instrument a jeweler forceps to separate contact lenses,” Kurteeva, who works at California Eye Associates in Newport Beach, wrote on Instagram. “They were essentially glued together after sitting under the eyelid for a month.”
As she pulls out the string of contacts from the woman’s eye, Kurteeva says she is her “Guinness world record patient,” and the shocked patient adds that the finding is “bizarre.”
The video has more than 80,000 views on Instagram and hundreds of thousands after it was shared on TikTok.
The video baffled viewers and some shared sympathy with the woman.
“My eyes hurt so much watching this,” one viewer commented on TikTok.
“The relief must feel amazing,” another commented on Instagram.
Many viewers were curious why the contacts were green, and Kurteeva explained that she used a stain in the patient’s eyes to change the blue tint to green.
Kurteeva said she was glad the video went viral so that it could help educate the public on how to properly wear — and remove — contact lenses.
She added that people should never sleep with their contacts in.
This story was originally published October 14, 2022 at 11:07 AM with the headline "Doctor fishes ‘bizarre’ discovery out of woman’s eye in viral California TikTok video."
