There is stuff stuck to my eyeball

[fire]

It's happened before. I thought it was a congealed tear because it's clear and squishy, and kinda just stuck to the surface of my eyeball. I can feel it when I move my eye around. It's off to one side, away from my nose, and it's just sitting there. When it happened before, I could take it out, by, you know, picking it off with my fingers or rather by dragging my finger over my eyeball. But this time it won't come off, and I have those little suckers in both eyes, and I can feel them every time I blink. They've been there for two days. I've tried putting drops in my eyes and rubbing them and not rubbing them and crying but nothing seems to help.

What should I do?

Aside from the obvious.

[markv]

well obviously you should just remove your eyes, but aside from that you could try washing your eyes with a shot glass and water, or just filling up the sink with water and try drowning yourse.. i mean submerging your face and blinking rapidly in the water / moving your eyes in the water to try and get rid of it.

[fire]

It's stuck. It won't budge. Gentle pressure with my finger won't dislodge it. And you think batting my eyelashes in a shot of water will do it?

[SlyFrog]

It's happened before. I thought it was a congealed tear because it's clear and squishy, and kinda just stuck to the surface of my eyeball. I can feel it when I move my eye around. It's off to one side, away from my nose, and it's just sitting there. When it happened before, I could take it out, by, you know, picking it off with my fingers or rather by dragging my finger over my eyeball. But this time it won't come off, and I have those little suckers in both eyes, and I can feel them every time I blink. They've been there for two days. I've tried putting drops in my eyes and rubbing them and not rubbing them and crying but nothing seems to help.

What should I do?

Aside from the obvious.

That happens to our Shih Tzu a fair bit.

[markv]

It's stuck. It won't budge. Gentle pressure with my finger won't dislodge it. And you think batting my eyelashes in a shot of water will do it?

Maybe soaking it for a few minutes will help loosen it, who knows. Other than that your doctor is your only answer I think, but that's not as much fun.

[krokodile]

Knife. Be careful though.

[Enduro_Man]

If it's possible, go to (or send someone to) the drug store and have them buy some eyewash like Optrex. Whatever brand it is, it's basically a saline solution to soak your eyes in, and it'll be much more comfortable than plain water.

I would strongly advise against picking it out.

[Phil_Stein]

Are you sure it's not an infection or something along those lines?

A few years ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a strong sensation of having something in my eye. I tried to rub it out, wash it out, etc, but that didn't work. IIRC, it was rather painful. I went into an eye doc the next morning - I think he gave me a prescription for something that cleared it up.

[Rywill]

Sex with Bill Dungsroman is the only solution. He's a doctor, he would know.

[Kunikos]

What should I do?

Aside from the obvious.

Antihistamine. I had this happen to me years ago when I accidentally rubbed cat dander into my eye.

[Raife]

It's probably just a colony of alien bacteria, but you'll know for sure when your eyes crawl off.

[Rward]

Maybe its somethings egg sack and you're about to be a mommy?

Right now, thousands of lavae could be burrowing their way through to your brain.
Zombie moths, I'd get it checked out...

[Rimbo]

Sex with Bill Dungsroman is the only solution. He's a doctor, he would know.

No, he is not.

[madkevin]

For once, this thread is just fine without pictures.

[Sam Jones]

No, we need a pic of Fire's eye with those throbbing things photoshopped in.

[Raife]

Maybe its somethings egg sack and you're about to be a mommy?

Right now, thousands of lavae could be burrowing their way through to your brain.
Zombie moths, I'd get it checked out...

Oh, good call. Here's a typical zombie moth eye egg sack. Does it look anything like this, fire?

http://www.morsa.net/eggs.jpg

Keep in mind that the eggs themselves may not have surfaced if they aren't ready to hatch.

[Sam Jones]

They're pretty good, but they don't wiggle enough. I'm not sufficiently disturbed.

[Raife]

Look, some of us are making serious attempts to help fire with her eye problem. If you guys want to disturb each other with throbbing pictures, do it in another thread.

[SergioBAM]

Shit, if you can't remove it with fingers and, and its been there for two day, see a doctor. Fuck posting on a forum (unless you have rolled +8 to initiative), your eyes are more important than that.

Do the right thing.

[EvilIdler]

Any sane person would talk to a doctor before posting here. But if you have tried eyewash, the next step is
to rinse your eyes in vodka, obviously. When that fails, you drink the rest of the bottle.

[FIDGAF]

I suggest the Dr. as well, It's no laughing matter.

[SlyFrog]

By the way, I wasn't joking. My Shih Tzu gets this shit all the time.

[Glenn]

In my professional opinion, as a former scientician, I'm quite certain in my diagnosis of pinkeye. You're going to want to smear some Vic's Vapo-Rub directly on to the surface of your eyeball, and try to stop hanging out in the ball pit at Chuck E. Cheese.

I'm also going to write you a prescription for some of those big, yellow pills, when you take this to Ray Ray you may be asked to confirm that you're cool. If he asks you to lift your shirt, relax, that's just to confirm you're not recording the conversation, and also because he's a perv.

There's also a possibility that you've become infected with Lupus, in which case you're going to want to build a cage, that you will then sleep in whenever there's a full moon. This diagnosis can be confirmed by performing allergy testing with a minute quantity of silver. In that case, please do the responsible thing and warn any sexual partners that there's a small but very real possibility that they will become dismembered.

[Zep--]

It's a tumor (or maybe Lyme Disease).

Zep--

[Major Icehole]

Do you have a cat?

[Shadarr]

The steps when you have something in your eye are:

- try to blink it out (assuming it's not a metal shard or something)
- eye wash cup (and you don't need to buy a special solution, saline is salt and water, so put some salt in some water)
- flip your lid a little and drag the lashes over your eye
- eye wash cup again
- invert the eyelid and remove the offending particle with a moist q-tip
- go see a doctor

Since a q-tip probably won't get anything that your finger didn't, you're at the go see a doctor stage. So go see a doctor.

[Bill Dungsroman]

Get thee hence to a doctor, milady. Stuff should never be able to stick to your eyeball. It may very well be an infection, which are common in people who wear contacts.


No, he is not.
This "zinger" right here is funnier than all webcomics you've posted combined.

[Njal]

This "zinger" right here is funnier than all webcomics you've posted combined.

It's still not very funny.

[Orinoco]

It's still not very funny.

And yet Bill is still correct...

[Bill Dungsroman]

You guys are catching the drift I think.

[Njal]

It is better to be understated most of the time.

[RichVR]

Doctor. DOCTOR. FUCKING DOCTOR!!!!!!

You are poking your eye and asking...

Aw nevermind.

[Rimbo]

It's still not very funny.

It's not a "zinger," either.

[SlyFrog]

You guys are catching the drift I think.

I really think you missed your chance to come back with, "I am a certified Doctor of Love."

Some people call you Maurice.

[Bill Dungsroman]

It's not a "zinger," either.
Neither are your webcomics comical. See how this works?

[Rimbo]

Neither are your webcomics comical.

No, they're not.

[corpsman]

I am not a provider, I only worked with them for over 7 years, BUT... one thing I learned in the ER and working on the ship is the eyes are the worst parts of the human body to have something go wrong. We would have people with cysts, hernias, diseases, testicular and ob/gyn problems, you name it, we had it, but the only ones that were medivacs were surgical things we couldnt handle and anything having to do with the eyes.

Even the guys who would be welding and get a tiny flick of metal in their eyes! If we couldnt get it out at the eye wash station, they would be medivaced to a hospital. I don't mean to scare you, most things I wouldn't even get seen for right away and I know better, but the eyes you dont mess with. You can lose a toe, a finger, even part of your face, and function just fine in life, but it is difficult to treat problems sometimes, even with modern medical "knowledge and tech."

I don't know you or your situation, but you really should get seen right away. If it is just an infection, your bills and time spent fucking with it decrease usually ALOT when seen earlier. If something is physically in it, then waiting is the worst thing you can do. Not only could it become infected, but if a foreign body is in there, every time you blink, the object is scratching the surface of your eye and the inner parts of your lid.

I hope you already went to get seen for this... [?]

[Bad Neighbor]

The eyes are the groin of the face.

[fire]

There is nothing inside my eyeball. There is a soft tissue on the outside of the eyeball. It doesn't hurt and it doesn't itch.

But yes, the optometrist is open today (I think?) so I'll finally get to see someone.

Thanks for the concern, everyone!

[shift6]

But yes, the optometrist is open today (I think?) so I'll finally get to see someone.
Hyuk hyuk!

[fire]

I'm back from the optometrist!

He said that it's a leaky lymph vessel under the surface of my eye. Lymph collects in a pool and makes a sac, which is what I see as "stuck" to the eyeball. He likened the sac of lymph to a blood blister.

It is not sight-threatening but it is a little gross.

The optometrist said it may go away on its own; otherwise he does not suggest I puncture the sac with a needle, but, he said, if I were to, I should sterilize the needle first.

[Zep--]

GIF! (animated = +5 points)

Zep--

[Rywill]

Eye doctor tells you to stick a needle in your own eye = time to find a new eye doctor.

[Peter Jones]

Eye doctor tells you to stick a needle in your own eye = time to find a new eye doctor.

QFT.

Seriously.

[markv]

An optometrist isn't a real doctor anyways, ophthalmologists are. Fire I think you should go to your doctor and get him/her to refer you to an ophthalmologist.

[RichVR]

Optometrist= prescribes glasses
Ophthalmologist= eye doctor

[Rimbo]

Some people mistakenly refer to opthalmologists as optometrists.

[Rward]

He said that it's a leaky lymph vessel under the surface of my eye. Lymph collects in a pool and makes a sac, which is what I see as "stuck" to the eyeball.

Its the maggots storing what they can't eat right away......

[Bill Dungsroman]

I like how the advice in this thread gets worse after fire actually sees someone about her problem. Oh, you guy!

[FIDGAF]

That surprises you?

[corpsman]

An optometrist isn't a real doctor anyways, ophthalmologists are. Fire I think you should go to your doctor and get him/her to refer you to an ophthalmologist.

I would have to agre with you on this one. Our ship's airwing providers knew more about the eyes then the visiting US Navy "eye docs" from the hospitals in Japan and Austrilia. The optometrist that I live near whom I got my contact lens from, said he couldn't find a proper fit because the surface of my eye wasn't like everyone elses, but the tech who worked with him told me to "try this one," [hands me a soft lens instead of a hard lens] and it worked. I can wear contacts now. *sigh*

Don't stick anything in your eye dude, you also open it to infection. Any time something can get out, something can also get in. If it bothers you and you won't wait for it to go away on it's own, go see a real provider!!

[fire]

Scroll up... where did I ever refer to an optometrist as a "doctor?" Sorry, guys, it's the only person that was open during Thanksgiving weekend that would also see me for free. Also it's not an emergency as it doesn't hurt and it doesn't screw with my vision.

Of course I'm not going to go sticking needles into my eye. Who do you think I am, DeepT? Oops, sorry, DeepT. I hope you're not reading this.

Medical options for students are rather limited, especially on holiday weekends. I'll go see some doctor on campus if it doesn't clear up in the next couple days (which I doubt it will), and if nothing else, they'll send me to a specialist.

FWIW I think that guy was full of shit; lymph pools don't get hard, do they?

[Morkilus]

Eeew.

[Johan O]

Matt.5
[29] And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matt.18
[9] And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

[fire]

*whew!*

Good thing I'm Jewish.

[Aszurom]

Glad it wasn't pink eye. Because that's a sure sign someone farted on your pillow.

[Bill Dungsroman]

That surprises you?


Don't stick anything in your eye dude, you also open it to infection. Any time something can get out, something can also get in. If it bothers you and you won't wait for it to go away on it's own, go see a real provider!!
Good point, FID.

[magnetic_rose]

Of course I'm not going to go sticking needles into my eye. Who do you think I am, DeepT? Oops, sorry, DeepT. I hope you're not reading this.

...and read is all he may do.

Fire: no needles in eye, mmkay? I suggest (a opthamologist told me this) a little Neosporin -- not the kind with pain reliever in it, just the regular stuff -- in your upper eyelid and tearduct when you go to bed at night. It helps heal alot of things, and might actually help.