I think I have a disease in my eye?!

I think I have a disease in my eye?

Ever since wearing contacts, Ive been seeing bacteria in my eye. It looks like the bacteria slides under a magnification in biology class. Its so scary because they float all around my eye and it distrots my vision. Is my coneal wearing off? Should I stop wearing contacts?

I used to see those all the time with my contacts also. I had my eyes checked cause it was real scary. In my case, there wasn't anything found. You might want to stay out of your contacts until you can get in to see your eye doctor just to make sure all is well. The tipoff to my advising a trip to your eye doctor is that you say your vision is distorted. Any time vision is distorted, you should have that looked at...could just be a prescription problem...or could be something else...and not one person online can accurately diagnose that problem...only your eye doctor can by taking a look at what is going on.

As for your cornea question: The outermost corneal layer is called the epithelium. It acts to proctect the anterior chamber (where the light enters the eye), iris, lens, and back of the eye. This epithelium is like our skin...the epithelium regenerates itself. The cells are so small that we never notice them. I do not think your cornea is wearing off...at least not anything outside of normal...cause we all have corneal epitheliums that regenerate like our skin, hair, nails every single day.