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I was NOT a brave girl at the hospital.

162 replies

Timeforatincture · 10/06/2025 19:38

Had to have an injection into my eye.

Doesn't hurt but it's very pushy and I feel very got at.
I know heaps of MNers have had a lot worse but I'm a wimp.

Anyone else had this?

OP posts:
Seawolves · 10/06/2025 19:40

Not a wimp at all, the idea of an injection into the eye is enough to give most people the collywobbles!

nocoolnamesleft · 10/06/2025 19:41

My mum has had many many many of these. I desperately hope I don't inherit what she has, because eye injection give me the creeps.

NuffSaidSam · 10/06/2025 19:42

I'd rather have a painful injection in the arm than a painless one in my eye tbh!

Treat yourself this evening.

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Orangemintcream · 10/06/2025 19:43

I would quote possibly have had to be forcibly taken to get that done. Then sedated.

You did amazing to actually have it done.

Talltreesbythelake · 10/06/2025 19:43

You did well not to run away screaming! I will give you an imaginary sticker for letting them do that to you. I have had bilateral cataract surgery and each time the nurse held my hand through the whole operation.

TheSlantedOwl · 10/06/2025 19:44

You had it done and didn’t run away! Which was brave. Treats tonight for you!

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Timeforatincture · 10/06/2025 19:44

Thanks for the sticker! I did great the nurse's hand.

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Chickenstewie · 10/06/2025 19:44

I have to have electrode things put on my eyes from time to time and that’s bad enough. You are very brave.

I had to have an injection into my spine a few weeks ago, and only managed it with the help of Valium. I still cried and swore a lot.

ThatPeachSheep · 10/06/2025 19:45

Im a nurse and that’s the only thing that I’m squeamish about!! You’re braver than me, I wouldn’t have gone 🫣

Sometimeinadifferentworld · 10/06/2025 19:46

I wouldn't have been brave OP. I would have been terrified.

A few years ago I was at the eye clinic at the local hospital and got talking to an elderly lady who was there to have an injection in her eye for her macular degenerative eye disease. I didn't know eye injection.was a thing and I felt like fainting when she even told me about it.

So well done you OP for going through the experience.

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Timeforatincture · 10/06/2025 19:47

Electrodes on the eye? Don't like the sound of that.

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MycatLarry · 10/06/2025 19:49

God that sounds awful, so well done, you're not a wimp at all. I am not brave with pain, at the dentist, having blood taken, or anything medical really (and I'm in my 70s so I should be grown up and brave by now!)

Gardenbumblebee · 10/06/2025 19:50

Being brave isn't being fearless. It's about doing it anyway even though you're terrified! If you got through it you're amazing op and dont let anyone (including you) tell you otherwise!

AmelieSummer25 · 10/06/2025 19:51

Brave is over rated !

theres absolutely no way I could allow them
to put needles in my eyes. I'm not even sure I could allow them to give me a GA to do it, knowing that's what they were going to do.

CaptainMyCaptain · 10/06/2025 19:51

It's not nice. My friend has to have them but it's better than losing your sight. I have had laser treatment for glaucoma. Not pleasant but I'm glad it was available to me.

PITCHpink · 10/06/2025 19:51

Fuck that! You poor woman. I’d have cried like a baby, got aggressive, cried again like a baby, had to be pinned down, then put to sleep! Well done you

TroysMammy · 10/06/2025 19:52

Trigger warning please. I have an eye phobia. I can't eve look at a photo of a Scotch egg cut in half because to me it looks like an eye bleurgh.

CaptainMyCaptain · 10/06/2025 19:52

AmelieSummer25 · 10/06/2025 19:51

Brave is over rated !

theres absolutely no way I could allow them
to put needles in my eyes. I'm not even sure I could allow them to give me a GA to do it, knowing that's what they were going to do.

They put local anaesthetic drops in so you don't feel a thing.

pudseypie · 10/06/2025 19:53

You are braver than me! I cried having stitches in my hand last month as the operating theatre scared me. I couldn't have managed what you had.

NameChangedOfc · 10/06/2025 19:53

An injection into the eye??
Excuse me but you're a hero.

(I'm afraid to ask for details 😬 )

RafaistheKingofClay · 10/06/2025 19:53

Oh god I don’t know if you’d even get me to the hospital for an eye injection

PeckyGoose · 10/06/2025 19:53

Congratulations! You can now confidently use the phrase "I'd rather stick pins in my eyes" next time you're presented with an undesirable offer.

It sounds hideous BTW! How do you do it without instinctively just closing your eye?

CaptainMyCaptain · 10/06/2025 19:55

PeckyGoose · 10/06/2025 19:53

Congratulations! You can now confidently use the phrase "I'd rather stick pins in my eyes" next time you're presented with an undesirable offer.

It sounds hideous BTW! How do you do it without instinctively just closing your eye?

Anaesthetic drops and a sort of frame round your face. Honestly the possibility of going blind is really much more scary. Faced with that I think you just suck it up.

Chickenstewie · 10/06/2025 19:56

Timeforatincture · 10/06/2025 19:47

Electrodes on the eye? Don't like the sound of that.

It’s hideous. I have to also sit in a pitch black room for 45 minutes while looking at a screen the whole time, unable to blink properly due to shit stuck to my eyeballs, pressing a button everytime I see a red dot appear.

Its like a form of torture.

Enigma53 · 10/06/2025 19:56

I’m on chemo, have blood taken routinely, have had multiple surgeries, BUT an injection in the eye? Fuck that, I would have cried!!