Can A Scratched Contact Irritate Your Eyes?

I was looking at my left contact lense cuz it was irritating my eye like hell, and if i take it out, its was soooo much better. i was looking really at it, and i saw two lines, a long line and a short tiny line. I called my eye doctor and he said the long line was just a mark that the contact lense is for astigmatism. I didnt ask him about the little line though, and now im starting to think thats it scratched. could it be that the contact is scratched?