Scratched cornea

[spidey07]

Pulling weeds last night and a branch smacked me in the eyeball. Eye felt like something was in it so I sterilized my hands and flushed it out in the sink. Was still bothering me so I thought it was just irritated from the flushing.

Wake up this morning, still really irritated, hurts to all get out, headache and my equilibrium is off and vision blurry with ghost images/double vision in that eye. That scared the crap out of me, what if my vision or cornea is permanently damaged? Turns out my cornea was scratched, "corneal abrasion". Should heal ok barring no complications requiring surgery on my eyeball.D:

Still scares me pretty bad though. Remember folks, if your eyes are itchy or irritated, absolutely don't rub them. Doc said that was probably why the damage wasn't so bad. Rubbing eyes with scratched cornea or something in your eye = bad.

 

[ElFenix]

my father got a splinter in the eyeball from trimming the crepe myrtles

 

[highland145]

Always said a BJ is better than a poke in the eye.

 

[Texashiker]

Pulling weeds last night and a branch smacked me in the eyeball.

Glad your feeling better, eye injuries are nothing to play around with.

 

[blackdogdeek]

this happened to me. a trip to the ER resulted in doc numbing eye with solution and checking for anymore debris with UV light and then prescription for ointment to prevent infection.

 

[spidey07]

Glad your feeling better, eye injuries are nothing to play around with.

I'm pretty good about using eye protection with power tools or chance something gets tossed into your eyeball, but pulling weeds? Granted I was sticking my face into a bush to reach.

From now on, if there is even a impossible remote chance something can strike my eyeball, I'm wearing safety glasses.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Pulling weeds? Isn't that what your gardener is for?

 

[spidey07]

this happened to me. a trip to the ER resulted in doc numbing eye with solution and checking for anymore debris with UV light and then prescription for ointment to prevent infection.

I went to eye doc, he really took a look at it with the scope, put a contact in to help heal, anti-biotic drops, pain drops and follow up in two days.

 

[Texashiker]

but pulling weeds? Granted I was sticking my face into a bush to reach.

What does sticking your face in a bush have to do with pulling weeds?

 

[jupiter57]

Careful with the eyes.
I have always been careless with my eyes, & I am paying for it now.
Scratched, torn corneas, at least a dozen foreign objects which had to be removed by MD's or Ophthalmologists, etc.
Distorted corneas, even reading glasses don't help much.

 

[rcpratt]

Careful with the eyes.
I have always been careless with my eyes, & I am paying for it now.
Scratched, torn corneas, at least a dozen foreign objects which had to be removed by MD's or Ophthalmologists, etc.
Distorted corneas, even reading glasses don't help much.

A dozen? Where the hell do you stick your face?

 

[spidey07]

this happened to me. a trip to the ER resulted in doc numbing eye with solution and checking for anymore debris with UV light and then prescription for ointment to prevent infection.

Any long term damage? How long to be completely healed?

 

[boomerang]

I have map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy. Often, when waking up in the morning, my eyelid or eyelids are more or less "welded" to my corneas. When I open my eyes, my eyelids rip the top layer of cells off my cornea. The description above is not what is truly happening but is the easiest way to understand it. The result, besides some pain and discomfort that subsides within an hour or so, is that my vision is blurred. Typically, I can't see well up close.

I've learned to not rub my eyes and rarely do so anymore. I use drops instead.

I put Muro ointment in my eyes before bed every night. It helps, but there is no cure.

 

[zinfamous]

What does sticking your face in a bush have to do with pulling weeds?

granny fetish?

:hmm:

 

[spidey07]

I have map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy. Often, when waking up in the morning, my eyelid or eyelids are more or less "welded" to my corneas. When I open my eyes, my eyelids rip the top layer of cells off my cornea. The description above is not what is truly happening but is the easiest way to understand it. The result, besides some pain and discomfort that subsides within an hour or so, is that my vision is blurred. Typically, I can't see well up close.

I've learned to not rub my eyes and rarely do so anymore. I use drops instead.

I put Muro ointment in my eyes before bed every night. It helps, but there is no cure.

Well that super sucks! I need to invent some kind of contained circulating fluid mask just for your condition. Or a sleep mask that massages.

 

[SKORPI0]

I never take my chances whenever a task might end up with me hurting my eyes.
I might look silly wearing it, but my past experience with others disregarding basic safety
precautions irritates me. :\

 

[spidey07]

I never take my chances whenever a task might end up with me hurting my eyes. :\

Yes! Take that, make it water tight, snap it on bommerang's face and use a pump to circulate that breathing fluid from The Abyss to/from it.

 

[boomerang]

Well that super sucks! I need to invent some kind of contained circulating fluid mask just for your condition. Or a sleep mask that massages.

You know, you get used to it. What I've learned helps a lot is not sleeping with an eye jammed into the pillow. There's something about the pressure on the eyeball that makes it worse. The tough part is if you sleep well, you really can't control that very well.

I don't want to rattle on like some old guy talking about his ailments but some may find this interesting. We have glands in our upper and lower eyelids that excrete a lubricating fluid onto our eyeballs through ducts in the middle of the leading lip of our eyelids. I now go to the Doctor once a year just to have him monitor the condition and when there, he stains my corneas and looks at them with some of his eye Doctor type equipment that greatly magnifies my cornea. What he sees and what is typical of map-dot is swirls that appear similar to fingerprints or horse tails on my cornea. Anyway...his equipment can magnify the ducts on the upper and lower lids so greatly that on my lowers (the problem children) he'll see a sort of stalk of congealed fluid sticking up proud of the lower lid. For whatever reason, the juices aren't flowing freely down there.

The 'fix' is to take a damp washcloth and stick it in the microwave to heat it up. (It's real easy to get it too hot, so you have to be careful.) Then apply it to the closed eyes until the washcloth cools to the point where it's not effective. If I start to see bags forming under my eyes, I know that I need to apply some heat to reduce the thickening of the lubrication in those glands. It's a pretty effective 'treatment'.

I tell this story because I thought some might find this interesting. I'm often amazed at how complex our bodies actually are.

 

[ultimatebob]

Those contact lens bandaids never worked for me. I needed to get the laser surgery to fix my scratched eye.

Oddly enough, my vision in that eye is better than when I scratched it.

 

[Taejin]

Pulling weeds last night and a branch smacked me in the eyeball. Eye felt like something was in it so I sterilized my hands and flushed it out in the sink. Was still bothering me so I thought it was just irritated from the flushing.

Wake up this morning, still really irritated, hurts to all get out, headache and my equilibrium is off and vision blurry with ghost images/double vision in that eye. That scared the crap out of me, what if my vision or cornea is permanently damaged? Turns out my cornea was scratched, "corneal abrasion". Should heal ok barring no complications requiring surgery on my eyeball.D:

Still scares me pretty bad though. Remember folks, if your eyes are itchy or irritated, absolutely don't rub them. Doc said that was probably why the damage wasn't so bad. Rubbing eyes with scratched cornea or something in your eye = bad.

hope everything heals okay with no lasting damage

 

[spidey07]

Those contact lens bandaids never worked for me. I needed to get the laser surgery to fix my scratched eye.

Oddly enough, my vision in that eye is better than when I scratched it.

What I don't get is the pain drops say "don't use with contacts", and yet the doc put the contact in and prescribed the medicine.

Needsless to say, I won't be using the pain drops. Never knew there were NSAIDs for your eyeball. Brand name is "bromday", normally used for folks prior to and after eyeball surgery.

I'm feeling MUCH better, this morning it was difficult to walk my balance was so off from my brain adjusting to the blurred/double vision. It felt like the entire frontal lobe/socket on that side was sore. Vision is still clearly double/blurred.

 

[boomerang]

What I don't get is the pain drops say "don't use with contacts", and yet the doc put the contact in and prescribed the medicine.

Needsless to say, I won't be using the pain drops. Never knew there were NSAIDs for your eyeball. Brand name is "bromday", normally used for folks prior to and after eyeball surgery.

I'm feeling MUCH better, this morning it was difficult to walk my balance was so off from my brain adjusting to the blurred/double vision. It felt like the entire frontal lobe/socket on that side was sore. Vision is still clearly double/blurred.

Would you look badass with an eyepatch? Maybe you be needin' one of them.

 

[spidey07]

Would you look badass with an eyepatch? Maybe you be needin' one of them.

I have been thinking about going the shaved dome route. An eyepatch may just make it perfect. However the intarwebs are telling me a patch doesn't help and may actually hinder healing (cornea needs oxygen/air).

I'm thinking about going into work with my ski goggles on for the lulz and the protection from the light. Apparently I'm not supposed to be reading/reading forum posts as that causes eye strain.

no pain drops, and still posting. Argggggggggggh.

 

[Ichinisan]

I've had a scratched cornea at least twice: Once when I got in a fight with another kid who tried to take a bicycle I'd just built for a friend, and once when a passenger airbag blew up in my face while I was reading a magazine (the magazine disintegrated).

Sucks.

 

[Jeff7]

I'm pretty good about using eye protection with power tools or chance something gets tossed into your eyeball, but pulling weeds? Granted I was sticking my face into a bush to reach.

From now on, if there is even a impossible remote chance something can strike my eyeball, I'm wearing safety glasses.

There have been a few times when wearing glasses has probably saved my vision.

One that comes to mind easily was waiting for a pickup truck to pass by so I could cross the street. A nice-sized pebble whacked one of my lenses almost straight-on. That's the kind of thing where you don't even have time to blink, not that a thin flap of skin would do a whole heck of a lot against a sharp, speeding stone.

Eyes suck - they are incredibly useful, they are (currently) irreplaceable, and they are also incredibly easy to damage.