Injection in the eye
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On friday I had a hilarious injection in the eye in Brighton Eye Hospital. It really was terrific fun, honestly.
Word of warning to anyone with a lawn. I was mowing on the garden tractor two weeks ago on that really windy day. The dry grass and dust kept blowing back in my face. Unknown to me it was gently lacerating my corneas. A few days later my eyes became red, sore and very light sensitive. Vision clarity diminished worryingly. Cut a long story short, after ten days of discomfort and the failure of the eye drops the quack prescribed, I was referred to the eye hospital.
I was diagnosed with corneal ulcers, irisitis (locked up iris so the light really hurt my eyes) and epyscleritis (inflamed whites of the eyes). The treament was a shot of a cocktail of morphine, borasic acid and a steroid. Directly into eye socket!
Peeling my eyelids inside out, and placing what appeared to be a car jack (or speculum as the Doc wrongly called it) between my eyelids, he roughly cranked it open. He then went and fetched what I'd initially thought was a normal sized syringe and needle. However as the dreaded implement of pain came closer I realised it was growing in size until at last it had approximately the dimensions of one of those tubes of No More Nails with a six inch nail sticking out the end. I know it's shades of father Ted and "Dougal. Near. And far away." but as someone who normally shuts his eyes when having a jab, I was perturbed not to have any choice this time.
Plucking up my conjunctiva with a pair of plastic tweezers, he forcefully plunged the nail, sorry needle, six inches (or six millimetres as he said) deep into my eye socket and pumped in fully half a gallon of the solution. The pain was of a special kind, quite exquisite in a way. I don't think even Dr Josef Megeler could have invented a finer torture. Had I known this procedure was about to happen, on reflection, I probably wouldn't have eaten that big buttery Eccles cake and milky coffee half an hour beforehand. The next thing I knew was that I was covered in vomit, and hearing the words "Contract cleaner to Consulting Room 2 please".
Still, it wasn't such a bad week. I'd got my eyesight back and then yesterday I heard that my ex-wife - the infamous Viper who gets the odd derogatory mention on relationship threads on here - who'd had an affair and run off to get married to a soldier, is now getting divorced again. Seems Soldier Blue was caught sticking his dick into a WRAC at Andover Depot and The Viper's utterly heartbroken and devastated.
See. Not such a bad week after all.
Word of warning to anyone with a lawn. I was mowing on the garden tractor two weeks ago on that really windy day. The dry grass and dust kept blowing back in my face. Unknown to me it was gently lacerating my corneas. A few days later my eyes became red, sore and very light sensitive. Vision clarity diminished worryingly. Cut a long story short, after ten days of discomfort and the failure of the eye drops the quack prescribed, I was referred to the eye hospital.
I was diagnosed with corneal ulcers, irisitis (locked up iris so the light really hurt my eyes) and epyscleritis (inflamed whites of the eyes). The treament was a shot of a cocktail of morphine, borasic acid and a steroid. Directly into eye socket!
Peeling my eyelids inside out, and placing what appeared to be a car jack (or speculum as the Doc wrongly called it) between my eyelids, he roughly cranked it open. He then went and fetched what I'd initially thought was a normal sized syringe and needle. However as the dreaded implement of pain came closer I realised it was growing in size until at last it had approximately the dimensions of one of those tubes of No More Nails with a six inch nail sticking out the end. I know it's shades of father Ted and "Dougal. Near. And far away." but as someone who normally shuts his eyes when having a jab, I was perturbed not to have any choice this time.
Plucking up my conjunctiva with a pair of plastic tweezers, he forcefully plunged the nail, sorry needle, six inches (or six millimetres as he said) deep into my eye socket and pumped in fully half a gallon of the solution. The pain was of a special kind, quite exquisite in a way. I don't think even Dr Josef Megeler could have invented a finer torture. Had I known this procedure was about to happen, on reflection, I probably wouldn't have eaten that big buttery Eccles cake and milky coffee half an hour beforehand. The next thing I knew was that I was covered in vomit, and hearing the words "Contract cleaner to Consulting Room 2 please".
Still, it wasn't such a bad week. I'd got my eyesight back and then yesterday I heard that my ex-wife - the infamous Viper who gets the odd derogatory mention on relationship threads on here - who'd had an affair and run off to get married to a soldier, is now getting divorced again. Seems Soldier Blue was caught sticking his dick into a WRAC at Andover Depot and The Viper's utterly heartbroken and devastated.
See. Not such a bad week after all.
Edited by Andy Zarse on Sunday 31st May 08:09
captainzep][slowly pushes bowl of Cheerios to one side said:
Blimey.
I have a lawn. Can you confirm that this was definitely grass based? I'm nervous now, and it would be unfair to elicit this fear if the grass cuttings story was an elaborate cover for a semen based ocular mishap.
You mean an act of self-bukake? What, with my prostate? Anyway, IIRC Bedford Rascal's the champion at that trick.I have a lawn. Can you confirm that this was definitely grass based? I'm nervous now, and it would be unfair to elicit this fear if the grass cuttings story was an elaborate cover for a semen based ocular mishap.
Yes, it was grass and dust based, so goggle up if it's windy.
Andy Zarse said:
captainzep][slowly pushes bowl of Cheerios to one side said:
Blimey.
I have a lawn. Can you confirm that this was definitely grass based? I'm nervous now, and it would be unfair to elicit this fear if the grass cuttings story was an elaborate cover for a semen based ocular mishap.
You mean an act of self-bukake? What, with my prostate? Anyway, IIRC Bedford Rascal's the champion at that trick.I have a lawn. Can you confirm that this was definitely grass based? I'm nervous now, and it would be unfair to elicit this fear if the grass cuttings story was an elaborate cover for a semen based ocular mishap.
Yes, it was grass and dust based, so goggle up if it's windy.
This is one of the strengths of PH. The sense of fraternity, the sense that you guys have 'got my 6'.
Andy Zarse said:
On friday I had a hilarious injection in the eye in Brighton Eye Hospital. It really was terrific fun, honestly.
Word of warning to anyone with a lawn. I was mowing on the garden tractor two weeks ago on that really windy day. The dry grass and dust kept blowing back in my face. Unknown to me it was gently lacerating my corneas. A few days later my eyes became red, sore and very light sensitive. Vision clarity diminished worryingly. Cut a long story short, after ten days of discomfort and the failure of the eye drops the quack prescribed, I was referred to the eye hospital.
I was diagnosed with corneal ulcers, irisitis (locked up iris so the light really hurt my eyes) and epyscleritis (inflamed whites of the eyes). The treament was a shot of a cocktail of morphine, borasic acid and a steroid. Directly into eye socket!
Peeling my eyelids inside out, and placing what appeared to be a car jack (or speculum as the Doc wrongly called it) between my eyelids, he roughly cranked it open. He then went and fetched what I'd initially thought was a normal sized syringe and needle. However as the dreaded implement of pain came closer I realised it was growing in size until at last it had approximately the dimensions of one of those tubes of No More Nails with a six inch nail sticking out the end. I know it's shades of father Ted and "Dougal. Near. And far away." but as someone who normally shuts his eyes when having a jab, I was perturbed not to have any choice this time.
Plucking up my conjunctiva with a pair of plastic tweezers, he forcefully plunged the nail, sorry needle, six inches (or six millimetres as he said) deep into my eye socket and pumped in fully half a gallon of the solution. The pain was of a special kind, quite exquisite in a way. I don't think even Dr Josef Megeler could have invented a finer torture. Had I known this procedure was about to happen, on reflection, I probably wouldn't have eaten that big buttery Eccles cake and milky coffee half an hour beforehand. The next thing I knew was that I was covered in vomit, and hearing the words "Contract cleaner to Consulting Room 2 please".
Still, it wasn't such a bad week. I'd got my eyesight back and then yesterday I heard that my ex-wife - the infamous Viper who gets the odd derogatory mention on relationship threads on here - who'd had an affair and run off to get married to a soldier, is now getting divorced again. Seems Soldier Blue was caught sticking his dick into a WRAC at Andover Depot and The Viper's utterly heartbroken and devastated.
See. Not such a bad week after all.
Word of warning to anyone with a lawn. I was mowing on the garden tractor two weeks ago on that really windy day. The dry grass and dust kept blowing back in my face. Unknown to me it was gently lacerating my corneas. A few days later my eyes became red, sore and very light sensitive. Vision clarity diminished worryingly. Cut a long story short, after ten days of discomfort and the failure of the eye drops the quack prescribed, I was referred to the eye hospital.
I was diagnosed with corneal ulcers, irisitis (locked up iris so the light really hurt my eyes) and epyscleritis (inflamed whites of the eyes). The treament was a shot of a cocktail of morphine, borasic acid and a steroid. Directly into eye socket!
Peeling my eyelids inside out, and placing what appeared to be a car jack (or speculum as the Doc wrongly called it) between my eyelids, he roughly cranked it open. He then went and fetched what I'd initially thought was a normal sized syringe and needle. However as the dreaded implement of pain came closer I realised it was growing in size until at last it had approximately the dimensions of one of those tubes of No More Nails with a six inch nail sticking out the end. I know it's shades of father Ted and "Dougal. Near. And far away." but as someone who normally shuts his eyes when having a jab, I was perturbed not to have any choice this time.
Plucking up my conjunctiva with a pair of plastic tweezers, he forcefully plunged the nail, sorry needle, six inches (or six millimetres as he said) deep into my eye socket and pumped in fully half a gallon of the solution. The pain was of a special kind, quite exquisite in a way. I don't think even Dr Josef Megeler could have invented a finer torture. Had I known this procedure was about to happen, on reflection, I probably wouldn't have eaten that big buttery Eccles cake and milky coffee half an hour beforehand. The next thing I knew was that I was covered in vomit, and hearing the words "Contract cleaner to Consulting Room 2 please".
Still, it wasn't such a bad week. I'd got my eyesight back and then yesterday I heard that my ex-wife - the infamous Viper who gets the odd derogatory mention on relationship threads on here - who'd had an affair and run off to get married to a soldier, is now getting divorced again. Seems Soldier Blue was caught sticking his dick into a WRAC at Andover Depot and The Viper's utterly heartbroken and devastated.
See. Not such a bad week after all.
Edited by Andy Zarse on Sunday 31st May 08:09
'The Viper'........
Eloquent as ever hAndrew.
The Moose said:
Christ, this should be in The Lounge!! GRRRRRR
Yes, this is where new PH forums fall down. It was not written as a health matter, more as a warning to take care when mowing the lawn. As such it should probably be in the dustbowl of the Homes, Gardens and DIY forum. On the other hand, what with the news about The Viper, it belongs in a Relationships forum, which curiously we are not allowed to have, and as such is a matter for the Lounge.But mainly, from my perspective, it was written as a comic monologue to make me feel better, and more importantly, to give everyone else a good laugh at my misfortune. I'd have thought the lounge was the ideal place.
I'll drop the Mods a line, maybe anyone else who can be bothered would care to do so too. This whole forum thing is a mess.
Andy Zarse said:
The Moose said:
Christ, this should be in The Lounge!! GRRRRRR
Yes, this is where new PH forums fall down. It was not written as a health matter, more as a warning to take care when mowing the lawn. As such it should probably be in the dustbowl of the Homes, Gardens and DIY forum. On the other hand, what with the news about The Viper, it belongs in a Relationships forum, which curiously we are not allowed to have, and as such is a matter for the Lounge.But mainly, from my perspective, it was written as a comic monologue to make me feel better, and more importantly, to give everyone else a good laugh at my misfortune. I'd have thought the lounge was the ideal place.
I'll drop the Mods a line, maybe anyone else who can be bothered would care to do so too. This whole forum thing is a mess.
To say it a piss-take isn't quite right, but it is certainly in a light-hearted manor and certainly not a Health Matter.
I have to admit, I certanily had a smile at your misfortune, but only because of the way you tell the tale!!
On the forum subject, GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Cheers
The Moose
ETA: I'm pretty certain the management don't see it as a major disadvantage, but this is becuase of the real sense of community members fell here, rather than being happy with the change!
Edited by The Moose on Sunday 31st May 11:43
Driller said:
I stick needles in people for a living and I really wish I had not just read that.
I've had 1 patient vomit on me so far (hopefully it wont happen again!) Well he kind of sprayed it then bunged up the spitoon with the rest, luckily our grown up DSA came to my rescue 
A few years ago I had tiny bits of glass in my eye and had it removed with a needle, the nurse had to hold my head still, apparently I was behaving like a 5 year old, not a nice experience.
Rach* said:
Driller said:
I stick needles in people for a living and I really wish I had not just read that.
I've had 1 patient vomit on me so far (hopefully it wont happen again!) Well he kind of sprayed it then bunged up the spitoon with the rest, luckily our grown up DSA came to my rescue It really shouldn't be that bad. I give these injections (orbital floor injections) all the time and they are never as bad as that. I tend to marinade the area in local anaesthetics before giving the injection, and really my patients only describe a pressure sensation. It's quite common place in severe anterior uveitis or iritis (not irisitis).
Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
968 said:
It really shouldn't be that bad. I give these injections (orbital floor injections) all the time and they are never as bad as that. I tend to marinade the area in local anaesthetics before giving the injection, and really my patients only describe a pressure sensation. It's quite common place in severe anterior uveitis or iritis (not irisitis).
Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
Thanks for the top advice, spot on! You're quite right of course, but it wouldn't have made much of a thread if I'd put "Injection in the eye doesn't hurt" and now you've spoilt the story! ;-)Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
I'm taking ibruprofen and the course of steroid drops is for the next few months on a decreasing basis. What do you know about iritis and bad backs?
968 said:
It really shouldn't be that bad. I give these injections (orbital floor injections) all the time and they are never as bad as that. I tend to marinade the area in local anaesthetics before giving the injection, and really my patients only describe a pressure sensation. It's quite common place in severe anterior uveitis or iritis (not irisitis).
Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
Thanks for that. *shudder*Without the injection, you'd be in far far worse pain for much longer, and can develop nasty and potentially sight threatening consequences. My advice to you, in addition to using the drops as prescribed, is to try taking some non-steroidal antiinflammatory tables like Ibuprofen or Nurofen. It will help quite a bit.
One piece of bad news for you is that if it doesn't improve, you might need a repeat injection. Oh and for accuracy, the injection you had was into the orbit, ie the socket, you can actually have injections into the eye itself, these are called intravitreal injections and we do these for a variety of conditions also.
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