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[slim_boy_fat]

Do NOT trust GPs with your eyes - they are clueless!

One of our GPs has a special interest in all thing ocular - but A & E is still your best bet.

 

[Jlg]

Got it out after a hour and half in a e with them poking with a needle they gave up an sent me to the eye clinic after a nother half hour they got it out so 2 hours with a needle to get it I would never have managed to do It myself

 

[p0689109]

Another lesson learned then. You cannot beat experience especially when its hard earned! Glad no damage was done though.

 

[Mart63]

Got it out after a hour and half in a e with them poking with a needle they gave up an sent me to the eye clinic after a nother half hour they got it out so 2 hours with a needle to get it I would never have managed to do It myself

Went through all this in 1980 and I've been a lot more careful since. Don't fancy another trip to A & E.

 

[Jlg]

Went through all this in 1980 and I've been a lot more careful since. Don't fancy another trip to A & E.

I've learned my lesson never wipe oil off your face with a rag that's next to a drill press

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Got it out after a hour and half in a e with them poking with a needle they gave up an sent me to the eye clinic after a nother half hour they got it out so 2 hours with a needle to get it I would never have managed to do It myself

You could always have stood under one of these....

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...AUIESgB&biw=1280&bih=800#imgrc=Wdrutb79pCOssM:

 

[Hood]

You could always have stood under one of these....

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=s...AUIESgB&biw=1280&bih=800#imgrc=Wdrutb79pCOssM:

Few years back when I was about to get a MRI they asked what I did for a living, when I told them they panicked until I said it was mainly Alu and Stainless I worked with.

 

[Jlg]

I don't think that would have worked apparently it was well in my eye

 

[Hood]

I don't think that would have worked apparently it was well in my eye

Of course it would, your eye might have come out as well though

 

[Bryan Williams]

Also if you have an eye clinic at your hospital go to that rather than AE, My hospital Oldham used to have a clinic , you turned up there and they sorted you, its been moved to Rochdale now , I would have been better going straight there to a dedicated unit, the equipment and expertise was better.

 

[Exuptoy]

Been in 4 or 5 times in the last 15 years, 3 of those was working on my camper, one of those was while wearing specs! one was wearing a full shield and I lifted the shield as I was pulling the still spinning slowing down grinder through between the chassis rails and the disc caught the rail and shattered. That one slightly fecked up my right eye! My good one. I have Holmes-Adie Pupil in the left which is a slowly reactive pupil which lets in a lot of light.

All the other times I had it removed with orange freeze dye and blue light and a loonnnngggg needle. The last one saw me in eye clinic and a vibrating pen which agitated the splinter in the eye ball until it was out.

Glad you're sorted now.

 

[Barking Mat]

Just found this, glad its sorted. A bloody big magnet if you hadn't would have been my daft advice. Then a&e.

 

[doubleboost]

I often "operate" on my hand's drill fingernails etc
Hypo needles are great for removing metal splinters
Super glue for clean cuts
With eyes, dont play about always go to A&E
I only have the one eye believe me it is no fun

 

[Ruffian]

If your lucky or unlucky enough (like me)
My dad is an optician and helped me out a couple of time's now.

This is the last time with the nugget still in my eye and the second photo is with the healing process 3 days later.

(Even to the point I wear sunglasses with clear lenses as normal glasses just to minimise the chances)

 

[gordon stephenson]

I have just recently had a couple of MRI scans and one of the major questions was, have you ever had any metal in your eyes.!!!

 

[dannyp]

well an MRI will pull any metal out your eye or anything else...... problem is whitch way it pulls it

 

[mechman]

Didn't know they could pull non ferocious out.

 

[Hood]

Didn't know they could pull non ferocious out.

I don't think they can, they certainly relaxed when I told them it was mainly Stainless and Alu I worked with but maybe they just said lets risk it
.

 

[Jlg]

Been in 4 or 5 times in the last 15 years, 3 of those was working on my camper, one of those was while wearing specs! one was wearing a full shield and I lifted the shield as I was pulling the still spinning slowing down grinder through between the chassis rails and the disc caught the rail and shattered. That one slightly fecked up my right eye! My good one. I have Holmes-Adie Pupil in the left which is a slowly reactive pupil which lets in a lot of light.

All the other times I had it removed with orange freeze dye and blue light and a loonnnngggg needle. The last one saw me in eye clinic and a vibrating pen which agitated the splinter in the eye ball until it was out.

Glad you're sorted now.

Spoke to soon they've missed a bit once they got the first bit out they never checked to make sure there wasn't any where else so it's looking like a date with a nother needle in my eye

 

[Hood]