Hi, hoping someone could offer me some information as to what is happening to my eye. I'm a student at a university so I'm waiting until the weekday until the health center opens (honestly, all the vision centers are closed on the weekends) and right now I'm scared out of my MIND.

Here's what happened:

I slept with my contacts on (this is like my second time... hopefully this is some helpful information?) and then at night time I got back to my dorm, took off my contacts and I felt something in my left eye. I wash it out with water and I see an eyelash on my eye so I try to remove it with my fingers, then OK good, I got it out. Next day I notice that I have this blindspot on my left eye that I DID NOT have before. Could I have hurt my eye while trying to remove the eyelash with my finger? I was as cautious as I could be while removing the eyelash and gentle as ever.

Here's how I noticed it... I was looking at my sink in my dorm and I noticed that I could not see the lightbult that was on my desk (the light was on). Now, I had one eye closed (the right eye) and the lightbult was not visible when my right eye was closed, but when I opened my right eye I could see it because of my right eye's vision. The blindspot is not very noticeable during the day, more like the night time. If I close my right eye and only see through my left eye, I just see this circular fuzzyness/blurry spot on the left of my eye; its about 1 inch or so to the left of the center of my eye's vision. So if I hold up my finger to the blindspot, I can see the top and the bottom, not the middle. I've also tested and noticed that this blindspot "goes away" if I move my finger close to my eye, so its only there after a certain distance.

I believe that I have really damaged my eye after that night and feel completely stupid. Could this possibly be temporarily or permanent damage? Are there steroids to help heal this (of course, I will go to the doctor tomorrow and get everything prescribed. I'm not that stupid. I just would like some possibly background information)? Possibly have eye laser surgery? =/

This isn't a cataract, right? I read that cataracts are mainly gained from diseases/overexposure to sunlight.


Thank you guys SO much for any information you can offer me, even if its very minimal.