So last night at work, I got some little particle of a unidentified object stuck in my left eye. I waited about half an hour, to see if my eyeball would possibly expel the object on its own, but to no avail. My supervisor and quality control manager both tried to flush my eye out, also to no avail. Headed down to the emergency room after that. The doctor put in some drops to numb my eyeball, then tried picking the object out with tweezers, unsuccessfully. He left the room, and came back with a little device that has spinning end on it, and then proceeded to burrow into my eyeball to get the object out, again, unsuccessfully. I can see the look on his face like, 'damn.' He talked about how deep it was in, and then went over to the other side of the operating table and tried burrowing from that angle, and finally it flicked most of the object out. They gave me a pack of 5 mg loratabs and an excuse from work for a couple of days. I then had an appointment with an eye specialist this morning at 8, who proceeded to burrow a bit more out, give me a loratab prescription, and drops and gel to put in my eye. Currently, the eye hurts worse than it did before they removed it. Every time I blink, bam, it hurts.
Damn that sucks....and don't you just hate it that doctors think loratab is enough for pain like that. I hope it gets better soon.
Yeah man, getting shit in your eye sucks. The pain is probably caused by the scratching that the object did, so it will go away soon enough. Something gets stuck in my eye about once a week, working with a lot of dirt and such... so I just always have eyedrops handy.
Owch dude. I wouldn't have gone the the er though. I would have just saw a sad movie or something to make me cry to get it out. I wouldn't let that doctor come near me with the tweezers or spining thing.
No! I asked about one, and they said no. They dilated the eye, and it's currently still like that, but they just gave me one of the little clip on sunglasses. Thanks for all the comments. Before I got some sleep, it had been hurting the worst in this whole situation. It didn't hurt to have the object in my eye, but after they started digging some of my eye out, it's a bit of a pain when blinking. I took a little bit over the recommended loratab dose, had a good exhilarant ten hour sleep, and it's not feeling too bad at the moment. It constantly tears up, I have to keep a cloth around to dry it off every couple of minutes. It pretty much had to be removed, it had gotten in surprisingly deep. That's why he took some more out in my second appointment, there was a small fragment left in very deep. It wasn't going to come out without manipulation. The tools aren't what bothered me, they gave me drops to numb my eye and I couldn't even feel them poking around. All the drops and ointment and gels are what I can't handle, liquid is not meant to be poured into my eyeball.
