Scratched cornea

[iwannadie]

So, I woke up suddenly in the middle of the night friday with serious eye pain. I was almost double over in pain and I couldn't open my eye. I tried to force my eye open and flush it with water thinking something was in there, it felt like a needle in my eye.

I tried to force water in my eye for a good 15 minutes before finally being able to sorta open my eye. It eventually started to feel sorta tolerable enough that I wasn't doubled over in pain at least. I went out and got some "Eye flush" to try and clean it out more. I flushed every half hour and never did get anything noticeable to come out and it felt like needles or sand in my eye.

It eventually got to where I could watch tv and it only hurt if I made a suddenly eye movement or looked a certain way. I decided to try and sleep on it and go to a doctor the next day if it wasn't better.

Again I woke up in in pain and sand in my eye feeling. I decided to go to urgent care and see what's going on. I thought for sure they were going to pull something out of my eye just the way it felt but nothing was in there. They put the UV dye in my eye and said the cornea had a pretty good scratch on it.

It's strange the it happened while asleep, they said it could have been any thing really. It may have been something got in my eye and I didn't notice then while sleeping it scratched it up. They gave me a tetanus shot and some antibiotic eye drops and said in 24 hours it should be massively improved and just take it easy until then.

Anyways, just thought I would share and see if anyone else has had any eye scratches. It is a really strange feeling no so much massive pain but just the fact it's on my eye makes it worse maybe.

 

[time2getdirty]

Last Friday I had surgery to take out a piece of metal in my eye... does that count? Eyes are nothing to mess with and from now on I wont ever be the "Im gunna wait this out" type of guy when it comes to eyes. I did that and now I have Rust in my eye that will supposably damage my vision permanently.

Hope it gets feeling better soon!

 

[blaisetd]

I've had it twice. The second time the metal got around my safety glasses. Sometimes its good to double up with a face shield and glasses. The removal doesn't hurt because they will give you numbing drops. The pain is almost worse once the drops wear off though. It will still feel like there is something in your eye. The good thing is your eye will heal very fast and the pain won't last. I cringe every time i see someone cutting or grinding without eye protection. HTH blaise

 

[iwannadie]

Yea I'm still not sure how I got something in my eye. I wear full goggles not just glasses when working on the vehicles and I hadn't done any work prior to this problem.

I sorta wish I had just gone right away but I am glad I didn't wait any longer even if it turned out to be minor I am going to be out the door with any future eye problem. I wait a total of 12 hours this time which isn't Too long but still. They actually told me about the rust ring in peoples eyes and were hoping that wouldn't be my situation. I am also glad my insurance pretty much covered everything 95% which makes it much easier to just go rather than put it off.

My numbing drops seem to be wearing off right now which sucks, they gave me some sorta pain pills I am debating taking them. I really hate any type of pain pills.

 

[iwannadie]

Speaking of eyes and eye protection, any tips on keeping goggles from fogging. I've herd rubbing a bar of soap on the lens helps a lot. I seem to fog mine up really bad no matter what I do though. I even tried rain-x anti-fogging stuff and it doesn't seem to last more than 20 minutes before it fogs.

 

[Cottontail]

Eyes are not something to mess around with. My brother got poked in the eye playing basketball. Long story short, the bone plate that the eye sits on got a microscopic crack in it during the poke and in the split second the bone opened and closed it snagged one of the muscles that level the eye, so his eye couldn't level correctly. After surgery to release the muscle and put a titanium plate over the crack, he is in corrective glasses and doing therepy on the eye to retrain the muscle. Doctors said it could be as much as 12 months before it is back to normal, if ever. For now, it is glasses and double vision.

That little incident shows me I need to be a lot more careful with my eyes. I did get a sliver of metal in one of mine once and had to have it surigally removed. I have a little rust spot on the white part of my eye. And I had on goggles when I was cutting too!

Scary stuff, eye injuries!!!

 

[crimsondragon]

Yeah I learned to use goggles whenever doing anything really. I have managed to have no eye problems so far but I have come close, very close. Most recent incident was nearly stabbing myself in the eye with my Leatherman.

 

[AIbandit]

Wow way to close for comfort crimson.

 

[iwannadie]

Just to update, the eye is perfectly fine. It feels like nothing had ever happened, pretty cool stuff. I am going to of course continue with the antibiotic ere drops as instructed to be safe but wow the eye does heal fast.

 

[GrimmJeeper]

I had the same thing happen to me about a year ago, a spring popped off a carb on a customers car and nailed me in the eye, scratched the white part of my eye just above the iris. The drops help ALOT, and once they are over with if you have any other problems or pain get back to the doc immediately. Mine was bugging me a little bit and I went back 3 months later to learn that the scratch had calcified and now there isn't much I can do besides go in and have them scrape it off and hope it heals right this time. every once in a while I wake up with horrible pain in my eye and have to flush it with saline for about a minute before it will go away

I feel your pain, literally.

 

[SolarBell]

Years ago we had a kitten in the house. One day I woke up, looked at the kitten, and it took a swipe at my eye. That evening I ended up going to the ER from the pain. The doc couldn't find anything, so the next morning I went to a proper eye doc. The doc looked for 5 seconds and said "That has got to hurt!". 2 weeks of eye drops later I was back to normal.