Something in eye

I have had something in my eye since about 12 last night, I've slept and cried since and it still hasn't come out, I think it's possibly just an eyelash but it's round the back of my eyeball If it was round the front I could get it out but it ain't showing any signs of budging!

I'm just planning on leaving it to work itself out, hoping it does, am guessing that's ok to do. My eye was a little red this morn, don't want it to get too irritated...

Usually these things are only in for a few minutes not half a day!

Can we take bets on how long it takes to come out?

Hope it does soon! So I win my bet of 2 days.

Try getting it with the corner of a piece of kleenex.

Be warned, I once had an ingrown eyelash and needed to yank it out with tweezers.

the enzimes in your eye should break it down eventually. Don't rub it though.

Just keep an eye on it!

[timwilky]

ouch, feel sorry for you.

A few years ago I got an FB well and truly in my eye and after 3 days went to A&E (Doesn't help that daughter works there)

Well at triage, the nurse dropped some gunk to anaesthetise it. and 10 mins later I get to see the consultant. Would I mind that he has some students.

What is wrong with you, I have a foreign body in my left eye.

So he has a look, then invites all his students to have a look.

Yes mr Wilkinson, there is definitely something there, but where did you get the drops from. Your triage nurse applied them. Then a 5 minute rant to his students about why they should not apply the drops to people complaining of something in their eye.

What would you like me to do he says, take it out I reply.

So the most disconcerting experience of my life, concentrating to keep my eye open against the natural reaction to shut it tight as I see a needle approaching. instant pain relief as whatever it was was removed.

But sod all pain compared to that when I had a welding flash many years ago.


Now I do feel sorry for a guy I drink with, 30 years ago, he was doing a bit of DIY and hammer/chisel on some stone whilst his daughter watched. off flys a splinter from the mushroom head formed on the chisel and embedded in his little girls eye.

It is still there today, the hospital tried several techniques to remove it and finally concluded she was better off with damaged eyesight in one eye than non. My chisels get taken to the grindstone first sign of any deformation to the head.

[SoulKiss]

Get yourself down to A&E

They may say that its nothing - but better to waste an hour or so of your life and a few minutes of their time with nothing wrong than let it go bad.

[Bluepete]

Stop moaning! THIS is a lad with something in the eye!




PS, hope it's better soon MYC! Big hug...

Pete

[dizzyblonde]

my dad has a bit of brick floating round in his eye. Has done for years.

Stop playing with it, and refrain from poking your finger in it, you'll only make it worse, and don't be doing the old wives tale of dragging the top lid over the bottom one, you'll be introducing more, and scratch your eye

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Get yourself down to A&E

They may say that its nothing - but better to waste an hour or so of your life and a few minutes of their time with nothing wrong than let it go bad.

+1

if anyone gets anything in their eyes at our works, it's straight down A & E. Better safe than sorry. I could tell you the story about a guy I once met who's eyes became sore one day, he went to bed but could not sleep due to the pain. He took loads of pain killers so that he could get to sleep and decided that if his eyes were the same the following day he would go to the doctors. When he woke next morning his eyes weren't the same, he was completely blind, and he has been ever since.

Moral - why chance it!

Originally Posted by Kate Moss

Just keep an eye on it!

lol