Shot(injection) in eye

Is anyone else fortunate enough to get a poke in the eye with a sharp needle? Every month I get one foe diabetic retinopathy. It really is not painful, y'all should try it.

curled my toes just readin that

My mother is 82 and gets one every month. Tough ole girl. I don't even like watching when I take her to the docs..

Sounds better than a jab in the eye with a sharp stick

Never a shot. But was fortunate enough to go to the eye Dr. twice. One was a wood splinter and the second was 2 metal slivers. It was like the game operation.

Close your eyes and you won't see it coming.

Ouch....
No thanks

I still have the scar in the cornea from steel that got rusty in my eye before it hurt enough to make me go in and have it carved out. I should have gone in sooner.

I use to take my dad monthly for a shot in his one eye. He never complained with all the sedation steps there is not much to feel as he tells it.

Anything eyeball related grosses me out hardcore. I saw an episode of House where this dude's eye popped out. Literally felt like I was going to puke for about a month straight.

I've had a bunch after I had a central retinal vein occlusion.

Not much fun... Doesn't hurt but makes it feel like your eyeball is about to pop.

I'm fortunate that I no longer need them. I was told it would be for the rest of my life.

Have had it a few times for eyeritis.

No but had a rusty metal sliver once,excised from my iris.

I have Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome and have had several shots in the eye to dead'n the eye ball so it wouldn't move during laser surgery. They tried to stop growing/leaking blood vessels.

Macular degeneration is in my family genetics and I have it in the early stages. So far the AREDS II vitamin is keeping it at bay but injections in the eyes on a regular basis just to keep from going totally blind is in my future if I live long enough.

Dave how did you get histo? Did it start In lungs and move to your
Eye?

When mine used to flair up the eye doc would give me a shot of prednisone in the eyeball. They would put something on a q-tip, and lay it one my eye to hold shut for a few minutes before the injection. Wasn't as bad as the thought of it.

Well a girl in primary stabbed me in the eye with one of them mechanical pencils... never even did anything to deserve it either but in all honesty I was a 1/10 of a millimetre from being blind in my left eye

Deer hunting on evening in high school i pushed a branch out my way, it snapped back and hit me in the eye. Just happens to be one of those large thorn bushes with long sharp thorns on it. It broke off in my eye. Next day at the eye clinic the Doc strapped my head in a jig so my head wouldn't move, shined some really bright lights in my eye and preceded to dig the thorn out of my eye. I would have preferred a better way but, he got it out.

My Dad has been getting them in one of his bad eyes. Not sure if it's the same thing you're talking about but he said it's helping his eye sight.

NE Wildlife - Yes it started in my lungs. It put me in the hospital when I was 13 (1967) and Dr.'s diagnosed it as Mononucleosis. I didn't move into my eye until I was 40 but they couldn't stop it so I eventually lost all central vision and a lot of peripheral in my right eye. At that time the Dr.'s at Iowa City said it most likely was not Mononucleosis but Histoplasmosis when I was 13. My left eye took over and I'm so use to it now it really don't matter.

Retina specialist doctor treated my left eye for macula degeneration for 3 years including eyeball injections 3 to 6 months apart. Injections resulted in no noticeable pain. And no noticeable benefit. I lost all vision in that eye.

I go in every 5 weeks for a shot. Can not tell you what it is for would not be able to spell it anyway. Keep the eye that is got getting the shot open makes it better. JMO

A friend of mine has macular degeneration and gets a shot in each eye every other month. He doesn't care, says it keeps him from going blind so it's worth it.

My wife has Macular degeneration and has been getting shots in both eyes for a long time. No cure for this. The Doc says the treatment is to delay further degeneration. He now says my wife is his miracle patient. She only has to have shots in one eye monthly now. So thankful. God is good.

I have bladder cancer , every three months I have to go in an get scope , they give George three shots , let me tell you it hurts !!!!!!! its been three years , now I have to start over again

I developed glacoma at age 37 in my right eye. Received my first steroid shot in my eye at that time for Iritus. I asked the doc what he planned to do with that 3 inch needle. He replied stick it in your eye. OMG. Any how I am 56 now. Have a shunt in the eye. I have had so much crap done nothing phases me anymore. I still have my full sight. That is what matters. Needle in the eyeball still sucks

me too, the first few times I watched my wife get them for Diabetic Retinopothy.

She been getting them for 2 years and those shots have brought her from legally BLIND at 20/280 vision to 20/40 and glasses fix that

WHAT AN AMAZING MEDICAL BREAKTHRU that saved my wifes vision!

Sounds like a group of tough SOBs makes me feel bad about some of the things I complain about

Had cataract surgery a few years ago. Doc came at me with a potato peeler. Why can't they knock you out beforehand?