Tifu by skimming Google and then burning my eyes.

So this didn't happen today but 6 months ago, after a very busy day at work. I was very tired after a long shift at work, and after I sat in a park till after midnight smoking with some coworkers.

Anyway I get home just wanting to go to sleep, and for context I wore contact lenses then, so I had to take them out before going to sleep. Unluckily for me, I had ran out of my regular contact lense solution and had no spares for the next day. I look around in boxes and find a bottle that says 'hydrogen peroxide solution - for contact lenses'.

Now, I'm not an obvious idiot. But get to know me and you know I ready am one. I know hydrogen peroxide is bad, but it's for contact lenses, which is good right? At this point I just want to sleep and end the mind games, so I do a quick Google of hydrogen peroxide and it's safety in eyes, and it seems good to me. So I went with it. I fill the solution up in the case and take them out the for the next day.

Next day, I wake up a little later. Not too late, so I'm just on auto pilot. When I get to my contacts my eye started hurting, like it was being rejected by my body. When I finally do get it out, I think it's obviously some piece of lint I got caught on the lens. So I wash it out with more of the solution I found.

At this point I'm rushing, I've spent far too long on this and I need to get to work. So I douse both lenses in the solution I found figuring it's a full bottles anyway. The fire that came from this fuck up is definitely 10-15th in the most pain I've felt maybe. I thought I've had worse, they'll just settle in like they always do.

A few minutes go by and I keep thinking to myself, it's not worth it. Both of my eyes burned with fires of hell as I start flapping about trying to get Satan's toenail clippings out of my eyes. I decided I didn't need to see today, because that isn't worth it.

On my bus ride to work I had another quick Google and saw you need some kind of neutralising agent or something to not make it hurt. Not too sure, I didn't read it. This experience is also a reason I wear glasses again.

TLDR: i mixed up hydrogen peroxide solution with ready to use saline solution and burned my eyes with soaked contact lenses...

Thanks for reading