I couldn't even finish reading the article, the prospect sounded so horrifying. This author is a king.
I started looking through the comments here and... NOPE, I do not need this information in my life right now.
I was terrified of an eyeball injection
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Re: I was terrified of an eyeball injection
#32I had 3 shots of Avastin to fix a neovascularization in my retina [1] around the end of 2010. I have to say, it's not a very pleasant treatment. I vividly remember the image of the needle inside my eyeball and the liquid squeezing in (Avastin has a refractive index slightly different than the vitreos). But at least now I have a cool icebreaker when I get my flu shot every now and then :D [1] - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm…
Yikes! I had a similar experience with cataract surgery. I was conked out for the initial portion, but I regained a state of half-consciousness about halfway through. I was drugged up enough that I could sit calmly while listening to the surgical team and watching them stick stuff in my eye, but it’s unnerving to remember it.
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#33I have a lot of sympathy for the author. I've been thinking about getting LASIK (or SMILE as it seems to be gaining popularity in France) since friend got it and says it's life-changing, and since I've started considering it I sometimes have nightmares about the procedure. I already had some minor surgery with local anesthesic and I didn't have any anxiety, but there's something about having something done to the eye…
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#34I have diabetes. My glucose control at home is fairly good because almost everything I eat has a nutrition label, and I can calculate somewhat accurately exactly how much insulin I need to take. When I travel, eating in restaurants regularly, I have to make wild ass guesses as to how much carbohydrate I'm consuming. On a recent trip I had some health issues, including a significant spike in my glucose readings. My A1…
>>My A1C went from 6.9 to 8.4
Whats good vs. bad?
Re: I was terrified of an eyeball injection
#35Try watching a cataract operation on YT without being OMGOMGOMG
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#36I have double vision because of previous eye surgery, and the end result is going to be a surgery where they
1. Put me under
2. Disconnect the muscles from the back of the eye sockets and reconnect them temporarily in a better location
3. Wake me up and make sure the locations are correct
4. Push the eyes to the side and reach in with a tool to permanently attach the muscles
The doctor was telling me the last part and I was staring at her like she was insane; "wait.. while I'm awake?!?". My plan is to just schedule a psychological appointment for later the same day.
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#37My mother accidentally put mosquito repellant in my eyes as a child (my father had put it in an eye dropper to carry hunting and didn't label the bottle)
To this day anything that messes with my eyes freaks me out. That little puffer thing at the eye doctor? That thing is my nemesis. I won't wear contacts. Lasik is out of the question because on top of this phobia I also have CP and I get super spastic when stressed.
Having to get monthly injections in my eyeball would be pure nightmare fuel for me. I'm not sure which I'd fear more, that, or going blind.
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#38When I was a child I used to sometimes touch my eyeball with the tip of a pencil. Everyone I've told this to is very freaked out by it. For me it was a test of my own self control. Could I keep my eye open? Could I be steady enough to not stab my eye? You can't really see the pencil approaching in any detail. It's really out of focus. The eyeball itself doesn't really feel much. The key is not hitting your eyelashes…
That's something you learn when wearing contact lenses. One day, it'll move and hide under your eyelid. You'll try to get it back without touching anything but anyway, in some seconds, you'll quickly make it to a point where you don't even care anymore touching your eyeball because you will immediately notice that it's just waaaay less painful than this folded plastic bastard.
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#39Many of us will face eye injections as we age and develop macular degeneration, where eye injections are currently the best treatment to slow and stop age based macular degeneration. Type two diabetes can be reversed with diet, maybe those facing this procedure will get more motivation to try stricter dietary interventions.
Type two diabetes MAY be able to be reversed with diet, depending on the person. That being said, the article didn't indicate if the author was type 1 or type 2 (or both).
Re: I was terrified of an eyeball injection
#40I have double vision because of previous eye surgery, and the end result is going to be a surgery where they 1. Put me under 2. Disconnect the muscles from the back of the eye sockets and reconnect them temporarily in a better location 3. Wake me up and make sure the locations are correct 4. Push the eyes to the side and reach in with a tool to permanently attach the muscles The doctor was telling me the last part an…
Technology today is both amazing and terrifying all at the same time.