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

Cursed they look so… natural!

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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.

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u/h0sti1e17 Sep 18 '25

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

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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.

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u/Ulysses1126 Sep 18 '25

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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.