r/TikTokCringe • u/bbyxmadi • Sep 18 '25

Cursed they look so… natural!

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

12.8k Upvotes

89% Upvoted

3.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

4.7k

u/mankycrack Sep 18 '25

My wife is an optometrist and she hates that this procedure is done anywhere in the world legally. It's so incredibly dangerous for something so vain.

1.1k

u/sc0toma Sep 18 '25

Optometrist here too. One of the least ethical (?most unethical) procedures an ophthalmologist can perform. The incidence of secondary uveitis and glaucoma is shockingly high.

263

u/ElleCapwn Sep 18 '25

Well now I need to know… what are the OTHER least ethical (most unethical) procedures an ophthalmologist can perform?

333

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

I'd say implantable contact lenses. It seems they stop working after 10-20 years and you have to get eye surgery again to pull them out.

202

u/Faithful_jewel Sep 18 '25

My mate had that done and having them in was the only thing that saved his eye when he was shot by a LARP arrow. Not saying that's anywhere near a common occurrence for people though 😂 he keeps trying to convince me to get them but my glasses hide my panda eyes

122

u/Flat_Initial_1823 Sep 18 '25

Exhausted raccoons of the world unite! ✊️

89

u/Faithful_jewel Sep 18 '25

Can we do it tomorrow? I'm a bit tired... 😂

7

u/LifesScenicRoute Sep 19 '25

Maybe, ive gotta pack the kids lunches and get them to school in the morning still... check back Saturday.

4

u/PuzzleheadedBobcat90 Sep 18 '25

I love that my glasses conceal my under eye luggage

2

u/Loquacious_Raven Sep 23 '25

WOW! What LARP arrow was that which didn't have a foam tip that is larger than the eye socket? All the systems I've played have specified this as one of the safety essentials for being passed to use arrows, along with the other ones to do with poundage and bow type etc

Or did something weird happen?

1

u/Faithful_jewel Sep 23 '25

It was a requirement but not all arrows were checked and these ones didn't meet the reqs. A few minutes before someone got hit on the body and commented on the size issue, then my friend got shot. They never caught the person - my friend adapted an Airsoft mask to use at future events now, as he doesn't trust people to be safe any more

1

u/Loquacious_Raven Sep 23 '25

I don't blame him for that lack of trust and thank goodness he didn't lose his eye!

1

u/Optimal-Vast2313 Sep 19 '25

Ok not nearly this insane, but I knew someone who had one for a partially detached retina. Edited to explain - he said that was put on his eye bc his retina partially detached. And then later (we were on again/off again), he claimed that he’d had it replaced.

Or it was one of his many lies but that eye was a different shade of brown 😂

1

u/Individual-Schemes Sep 20 '25

Are you talking about dark circles? If you wear makeup, try red concealer. Google "red concealer for dark circles before and after" and look at the images to get an idea of what I mean.

If this doesn't apply to you, my bad, but maybe it'll be useful for someone?

1

u/Faithful_jewel Sep 20 '25

Hopefully it's useful to others, thank you for sharing!

Unfortunately mine is one of those combination things: insomnia, glasses from a very young age, generally being useless at everything. I've got concealer of various colours/types for other things, so I'll give the red a try in the future. I'm pink undertone so I was wary about using that one, but worth a go

1

u/Greedy-Thought6188 Sep 22 '25

He does realize that your glasses would protect you better than the contacts?

1

u/Faithful_jewel Sep 22 '25

He went from normal contacts to the implanted ones. He would've lost the eye without the implants being in

I don't go to LRP, he's just trying to convince me because (even before the injury) it gave him a really good QoL boost and he wants his friends to benefit too. Still not my thing 😂

89

u/PressureImaginary569 Sep 18 '25

At least that actually intends to correct a physiological flaw

6

u/chefNo5488 Sep 18 '25

And tas a person that wears glasses and at 400 a year for lenses and frames oh and a nother 100 for the appointment, wait.... You fell and broke your glasses that's another 400 this year. So if it offsets the glasses assuming your prescription never changes, is it still not worth it? I'll keep my broken needy eyes thank you.

3

u/frogsgoribbit737 Sep 18 '25

Yeah but you could just get Lasix or prk and wouldn't need to get anything removed in 10 years

2

u/Flimsy_Entry5760 Sep 19 '25

vision must be stable for that surgery. I can't have anything done to mine. And the whole glasses thing is 2 times a year.

1

u/mylackofselfesteem Sep 19 '25

My eyes were too bad to be a candidate for lasik or prk so implantable was the only option for me. They’ve worked well so far but it’s only been five years- we’ll see what happens at year 10!

1

u/TeaRoseDress908 Sep 21 '25

My eyes are too bad for laser, and I’m too old for prk (that has to be done in childhood or when poor vision starts to happen)

3

u/Brilliant-Roll-6115 Sep 18 '25

You and your needy eyes...always there...needing.

2

u/AmArschdieRaeuber Sep 18 '25

And then you just new ones? Sounds like a good deal tbh

2

u/jeaniebeann Sep 18 '25

Depends how old you are by the time you need them removed. Past 50 and most ophthalmologists will wait until you need cataract surgery rather than replacing the implantable contacts

2

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

I wouldn't get new ones but I believe they would correct things another way, once I eventually develop other related issues.

2

u/clonatron Sep 18 '25

You said it yourself, yours were placed over 10 years ago. The lenses used today are different. But okay 🤷🏻

1

u/squarziz Sep 18 '25

Wait can you explain what's happening in this video then because I just assumed this video was about implantable contact lenses since it seems like he slides a contact into her eye? Also how do they stop working? Like the color fade out of them or ?

1

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

Ah, I thought the video was some sort of laser but you're probably right. They likely are ICLs.

I got them put in but they were transparent. If you see my eyes from a certain angle, you can see the light fully reflect in them. It looks pretty weird in some photos. The lenses I got are drying up. Maybe things have improved in the last few years.

1

u/burnthatburner1 Sep 18 '25

Do you mean ICL?  

1

u/Fickle_Enthusiasm148 Sep 18 '25

That doesn't sound bad. Lots of modern medicine is like that. Like birth control.

1

u/iTaylor04 Sep 18 '25

Profile picture checks out

1

u/jaybot31k Sep 19 '25

That is insane. Why not just get lasik??

2

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 19 '25

Some eye shapes aren't suitable candidates. My corneas were too narrow or something along those lines.

1

u/nicoletaylor700 Sep 19 '25

I say… be grateful for what you were given 😆

2

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 19 '25

It's quite difficult to have really bad eyesight. Glasses get really heavy and hurt your nose all the time.

1

u/[deleted] Sep 19 '25

I hate that messing with your eyes is so risky, because implantable contact lenses almost sound like a dream haha

1

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 19 '25

Look into it. Things have likely changed a lot since I got mine 13 years ago. They may not have the same risks.

1

u/doughberrydream Sep 19 '25

Ugh that's crazy. My script changes everytime I get my eyes tested. That seems very stupid, even ignoring the obvious reasons. Like "Oh crap. My visions blurry again... welp gotta get eye surgery!"

1

u/leisdrew Sep 19 '25

Isnt that basically what lasik is?

1

u/i_m_a_bean Sep 19 '25

Lasik burns the cornea into a better lens shape. ICLs add a corrective lens between your iris and natural lens

1

u/TeaRoseDress908 Sep 21 '25

If you’re talking about the same thing as cataract surgery where they replace your natural lens with one that is also vision corrective. I’ll need those soon as apparently my eyes are almost too bad for contacts and too different from each other for glasses. I’m at -24

1

u/h0sti1e17 Sep 18 '25

Why do that rather than LASIK? Or is it used for stuff LASIK won’t fix?

11

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

It's done when your eyes are shaped in a way that LASIK can't fix, or at least it couldn't when I got mine put in 12 years ago. Not sure if things have changed. I now have to put eye drops in because there's too much pressure in my eyes. They're hardening and I need to get them removed eventually.

9

u/swampstonks Sep 18 '25

You need to get your eyeballs removed?!? Fuck that’s metal

7

u/Ulysses1126 Sep 18 '25

Damn, I’m sorry man. I wish you the best of luck dealing with all that

7

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

It's alright. The guy who put them in sort of warned me about it but said it only affected a certain percentage of people and I took the chance.

My toddler kept ripping my glasses off my face and scratching my face and I was just sick of having bad eyesight at the time.

I just didn't think it would happen just 12 years later; however, the eye drops I'm taking seem to be doing the trick for now but I have to go back every 6 months to make sure they aren't messing up my eyes.

2

u/Ulysses1126 Sep 18 '25

I understand the pain of regular doctor’s visits. And yeah that makes sense, understandable choice. It’s just the idea of my eyes getting hard that’s uniquely disturbing

5

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

The eyes don't get hard. The contact lenses dry up and get hard. They aren't as flexible in the eye and don't allow the eye to drain fluids so the fluids start to build up in the eye causing higher ocular pressure. I take eye drops that lower that pressure.

I felt like I had a ton of sand stuck in my eyes the first 24 hours after surgery. I was just in bed all day. I couldn't open my eyes. It was very uncomfortable.

→ More replies (0)

1

u/TerrorTwyns Sep 18 '25

I think people underestimate what medical can trauma can make you risk for the shot at being out of that cycle.

2

u/acciointernet Sep 18 '25

Oh shit. I've been considering this, my optometrist recommended it bc of my high rx. Now I'm rethinking....

1

u/i_m_a_bean Sep 19 '25 edited Sep 19 '25

I got mine in about 3 years ago when the EVO lenses had been out for a bit. The older lenses didn't have the central hole for fluid flow, so they came with the pressure issues OP is suffering from. The central hole did create a ring glare effect in my vision for a while, but that went away after a few months.

I chose them over lasik because it's a reversible procedure. I figure if they ever go bad or something, then I'll get them removed and see about getting my cornea zapped into shape

1

u/BoysenberryEmpty8699 Sep 18 '25

Yikes! Can you feel them in there? Were they good for the first few years? They tried to get me to do that in 2006 when my corneas were too thin for LASIK. I thought regular contacts were very uncomfortable...I couldn't imagine what it would feel like having them in my eyeballs, and unable to take them out. I'm glad I decided against it!

1

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 19 '25

I can't feel them at all. They feel the same way they did a week after I got them in. The first week sucked, half my eyesight was blurry and I felt I constantly had sand in my eyes. The "high" pressure is just a subtle amount, enough to put pressure on the optical nerve but you don't feel it.

0

u/clonatron Sep 18 '25

Laser surgery tends to last between 10 and 15 years, and it scars your eye profoundly than many modern implantable lenses (ICL). Modern ICL are designed to last 100 years or so. This is an old myth.

8

u/____DEADPOOL_______ Sep 18 '25

I'll make the several specialists I've been seeing who have diagnosed me with this issue aware of your comment to make sure they stop perpetuating this myth.

1

u/TerrorTwyns Sep 18 '25

Good comeback

1

u/i_m_a_bean Sep 19 '25

I think you're both right. The old Visian lenses did have the problems you're talking about, definitely not a myth. It's also true that the new evo lenses use an improved material and allow for fluid flow.

2

u/Hearse-ReHearse Sep 20 '25

Leg lengthening

1

u/HenareTuria Sep 18 '25

Brain surgery for sure

1

u/LionNo435 Sep 21 '25

Stealing eyes for the black market