Crap in your eye ....

[Stubby]

I have had stuff in my eye loads of times in my life , saw dust , metal , arc eye etc etc but yesterday I went to bed fine and woke up next morning with a stinging sore eye . Soldiered on for the day thinking next morning it will be gone ( having had a look to see if I could see any thing in there ) but no . Woke up this morning and it worse . Went to A and E . Doctor spent a lot of time checking and looking . Declared it is scratched and something has been in there . Gave me some ointment . Its been bloody murder all day . Swollen , watering and my nose wont stop running . Bright suin light is a No No . You would have though I would have noticed something going in there would you not ? Any one else suffered this way ?

[Gnome]

I've learned my lesson. Don't eat crisps in bed.

[Mountain man]

Yep, many times, I carry eyewash in the truck, there's little worse, can't open your eyes, can't shut your eyes. Miserable.

[normandylumberjack]

I feel for you buddy, I had a splinter of rust fall from the exhaust of a van I was working under.

 

Not my eyeball, but scratched my eyelid while asleep with a ragged fingernail, could this answer it?

Edited February 28, 2015 by David Humphries
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[spudulike]

Got quite used to wearing safety specs most of the time in the workshop after getting an eye full of carb cleaner when cleaning carbs a couple of times.

 

Hope it gets sorted soon Andy.

[Stubby]

Yea I know all this but .... I went to bed with nothing , no problem , and woke up with it ! Bizarre or what ?

[s.varty]

Nothing worse, you aint been welding have you?

[willcamper]

20 year old brake fluid from a classic VW dripped between both eyes.

Because it was both eyes couldn't do patches so squinted for 3 days. Sunlight was a killer.

Also got a spruce needle stuck in left eye carrying tree home for Christmas lol.

That really hurt.

Hope it gets better soon mate

[skyhuck]

After many occasions of getting bits embedded in my eyes (from being flicked in the eye by twigs and grinding rust from old cars) I developed a condition called "reoccurring corneal erosion". Basically I had scar tissue on the front of my eye, over night it would stick to my eye lid, in the morning I opened my eye pulling the front off my cornea.

 

It was very painful and unpleasant!!

 

I put antibiotic ointment in my eye every evening for 6 weeks which sorted it.

[devon TWiG]

The stalk of feathers in pillows have been known to hurt eyes whilst asleep !