My mate said that he's had it done...whilst he was awake! Yyyyyeeeeeuuuucccckkk! My eyes are watering at the thought of it!
2006-09-16 02:11:22 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
What a crock!! The eye is attached to 6 muscles to allow it to move, and to a nerve that sends information to the brain. Taking an eye out requires major surgery. It can't just be popped out and in. If the eyes protrude a lot, usually due to thyroid disease, it is possible for the upper eyelid to slide behind the eye. Now, that looks gross, but one can pull it out and into place by themselves. Sometimes it is necessary to remove the membrane between the eye socket and the sinus cavity so the eye has more room and doesn't protrude. I have had 12 surgeries on my eyeballs and eye muscles, and was awake for most of them. My eyes stayed firmly in place the whole time.
2006-09-16 02:25:30 · answer #1 · answered by lollipop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not true. An optician will look closely at your eye whilst you are still awake yes, but using a sort of magnifying glass similar to antiques dealers. If they removed your eye, you'd be blind. It's be like removing a limb to have a better look at that.
2006-09-16 02:25:41 · answer #2 · answered by little_jo_uk 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opticians? No! They will look into your eye but they don't have the skills to perform surgery.
Surgeons? Possibly! Depending on the eye condition and whether laser can be performed. About 20 years ago, my brother had to have his detached retina fixed and they popped his eyeball out. He was asleep through the surgery.
I imagine that it's impossible to have any of the "eye popping" surgeries while you are awake. Your brain would have trouble interrupting what it sees.
2006-09-16 02:21:52 · answer #3 · answered by jenn_jenn02 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well not so........
I have been a licenced Optician for over 25 years and I haven't heard of that being done for anything other than major eye or head operations. I think your mate.... wasn't awake at all...sounds like a bad dream to me.
2006-09-16 02:32:12 · answer #4 · answered by jude 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, they don't do that just to 'check it out', they have other things for that.
Yes, they'll pop out your eyeball when preforming some eye surgery's on it, usually to repair damaged muscle BEHIND the eye.
It varies from doc to doc if they put you out or use a local anesthetic on it. Usually and for the most part, they'll keep you lightly sedated and numb the eyeball, but you won't really be asleep and you won't feel anything.
2006-09-16 02:25:00 · answer #5 · answered by Lucianna 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes it's true. Friend of the family got some brick dust in her eye whilst her husband was drilling, after 2 days it was still irritating her eye, at the hospital they numbed her eye area and popped the eye ball out whilst awake to clean it and then put it back in. Apparently it's very easy to take eye ball out, you put pressure on it and it will just pop out.
2006-09-16 22:03:22 · answer #6 · answered by melissa n 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard several people say they've had this done but I have been assured by my fiance that this is not so! Something to do with the length of the optic nerve not being enough to stay attached if they do pop your eye out! (Yuck!!)
2006-09-16 02:20:56 · answer #7 · answered by scarybird 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2017-02-10 01:31:56 · answer #8 · answered by Alene 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It don't surprise me. I have known several families with dogs that have eye problems. It seems to happen with the little dogs.
2016-03-17 21:49:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it has been done saw a programme about it but had to look away couldn't watch it yeugh
2006-09-16 02:19:37 · answer #10 · answered by braveheart321 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋