Most surgeries and replacements use stainless and or titanium. My wife had a total knee replacement and can undergo an MRI. I on the other hand (no pun intended ) have a piece of ( ferris metal) drill bit in my hand which disqualifies me.

 

Mondo, just curious; what good stuff did you find in the dumpster? BTW, it's not a good idea to jump in without looking, especially in the dark. Someone might have discarded a huge piece of broken window glass, some sharp -edged sheet metal, a pile of thorny rose clippings.....

Hopefully, Sparky has gotten the message by now. If not, here's just one more:

Twice I've had rust scraped of my eyeball. First time, I slid under my truck for a quick look at something and some 'dirt' fell in my eye. Second time, I was riding a bicycle down a road and something blew in.
Both times, I got to my eye doctor within 12 hours but rust had already started to form. My doc said it was times like that that patients really appreciated him (as he scraped away...)

Regarding MRI's, the titanium and stainless parts implanted are not a problem; the small stuff steel that accidentally gets there is. I spoke to the technicians about that extensively a couple years ago when I took a relative to get a screening, and got some good horror stories from one of them. I think some of the info. was a printed report.

 

This MRI thing is scary. Never thought about it, and never was asked about it when I had an MRI last year.

The crud in the eye.... Had that 2 times, and both times went in first thing in the morning. The guy was able to get it out, then kind of buffed the area that he worked on. It was a tiny rotary tool.

Then he offered a prescription for pain killer. Hell, it felt so damn good to get the sh outta my eye, I didn't need it. Did get some antibiotic eyedrops. The eyedrops worked good on styes also. Get those damn things every Spring when I start working ground. It must be the mold in the soil. The dust carries a lot of bad stuff

 

guys, i am legally blind in my left eye, from birth. it's not fun. eyesight is precious. ues your head and quit being macho. get help or go blind.
or learn how to play piano.

 

I was going to go to the eye doctor yesterday, but didn't have enough time. I will make an appt today. Yesterday morning I saw what looked to be a scab on my upper eyelid right where the eyelashes come out. Just below it and little to the left on my lower eyelid was a small hole that was burnt in. Later in the day I was looking at the scab and realized it wasn't a scab. It was slag that burnt into my eyelid. I took a magnet and tried to get it out. It didn't come out with the magnet part. There was a small plastic ridge on the magnet, so I held my eyelid out and scraped it with the ridge. It pulled it out and the magnet caught it. I think I may have closed my eye just in time and just got a blast of hot air, but will go to the doctor today anyway.
One time I was drilling overhead on a job. I had to drill a ton of holes in a 1/8" metal plate so we could screw it to the floor joists to protect some wire runs. I had been drilling for about an hour when the GC came over and told me to get safety glasses. I told him I only had one more hole, but it didn't matter to him. I got safety glasses and drilled my last hole. A piece of metal went between my hard hat and glasses and hit my forehead, then bounced off the inside of my glasses and right into my eye. I got it out by rinsing and using a magnet. I went to the eye doctor a little while later on that one because it still killed. I had cut my cornea and he said it will scar. I don't know if it did or not because I have no obstruction in my view.
I took pictures of the slag in my eyelid, but I didn't put them on here yet.

 

Well I hope you learned a valuable lesson,as much as we hate eye protection use it anyway.

 

You Can't See With A Glass Eye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hi, hope all will be ok. Many years ago in school there was a safety poster that read , "you can walk with a wooden leg, { yea back then they used wood i guess] BUT you can't see with a glass eye'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw a OSHA safety film where they show the removal of those steel wire wheel brushes being DUG out of a guys eye !!! If that does remind you to always use safety glasses with side shields or wrap around type and face shield, I don't what would!!! get well , SEE YOU!

 

I just happened upon this from another site (Binder Bulletin) I occasionally visit:

Originally Posted by Justin H

"So i woke up this morning with a very sore left eye, looked in the mirror and it looked like pink eye, but turns out i had 2 or 3 pieces of metal stuck in there, despite wearing safety glasses while grinding last night....took a trip to the eye doctor, who ended up drilling them out".

That sucks. Good thing you went to the doctor. I got a piece of hot metal stuck in my eye when welding one day and didn't notice it until about a week later when it started poking out the surface of the eye and irritating my eyelid. I didn't go to the doctor, but I dug it out with a rolled up paper towel instead.

I still have a *spot* in my vision when I look at white walls from where that metal was.

-Gary

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Call your local eye doctor, thats what they do. I did the ER first, they only made it worse. My eye Doc said "unless I am shot, or have a broken leg " call him first.

 

That's the catch22 of healthcare. Some ER's and even general practianers are equipt and trained for this and there are eye doctors that can't do much more than fitt you for glass' likewise some eye doctor are excellent at eye injuries. The problem comes that once you are hurt you don't have time or sometimes the ability to conduct research. You can only hope that where ever you go can correctly judge whether or not they're in over their head. Hopefully if they're in over their head they will give you first aid and send you to the appropriate professional. It does pay off to have a good knowledge of the health care providers in your area.

 

Been there and done that. I have a good friend that is an opti and when I get metal or anything in my eye i call him and he meets me at his office. He gave me some numbing eye drops to ease pain until i get there.I keep it handy in the frig. The eye drops are nothing to play with either. I am sure you will or have done the right thing. Best way to learn is from experience i alway say.
TW9Y Georgia

 

Hello Gents,
Its been awhile since I've been on the board (work issues) but I'm back to the computer and back online. I remember a similar post I did a year or so ago when I ground off a bracket and put a piece of red hot steel in my eye. Went to the ER and that doc missed the piece and claimed the eye was clear. I still made an appointment with my eye doctor (Opthalmologist) and he using his better tools discovered a small piece of rusting steel in my eye. After 2 different procedure to grind out the rusty tissue the guy saved my eye.

Its not cool or tough to hold off from going to the Doctor. God only gave you 2 eyes and you need both for depth perception which is important in welding and just about anything. Go to the doctor, pay the fees, he/she just might save your eye and you will be thank full when you're tossing a ball back and forth with your grand kids someday.

 

I used to be the same way. I got a bit of grinding grit in my eye one day bounced under my safety glasses and hit my eye just right. ended up emended in my eye lid. HURT like hell! I waited and waited and finally was like F this and went in. well it was scabbed over and the eye doctor ended up having to flip my eyelid over and dig in my eyelids. she said that if I had come in immediately that it would have been no big deal but the fact I waited made it a surgery.

Worst two hours of my life broken bones, burns, every other kind of injury wasn't close to that pain. and the fact that if I would have went in earlier it would have been no big deal made it worse.

I have health insurance that covers everything and no worries for any medical care and I still hate going to the DR. but I don't fark around with my eyes.

 

I went to the eye doc today. Nothing in there, small infections on eyelids where hot metal hit. Gave me some crap to put on it.

 

It's always fun when they go at your eye with the needle to pick out the shmutz. It's even better when They pull out the grinder!

 

i was grinding some carbon steel and got a sliver in my right eye one day.

thought nothing of it.. didn't even know it was there.

the next day, 4AM i roll out the door to go to work.. bit of a headache, car headlights feel like a punch in the temple tho.
still, thought nothing of it. normal for a headache, right? light sensitivity and all...

i get to work.. where theres 1000W HID lighting, and i damn near buckled from the pain.
i immediately called the supervisor and told him i was going to the eye doctor and i won't be back in..

to the eye doctor i went.. took 3 days for them to scrape out metal and bits of rust it left behind.. went in hot, too. seared itself in there, i couldn't feel the metal in there, but i could CLEARLY see it in a mirror, and the immediate nerve damage from hot penetration caused it to not hurt in low-light conditions.. the minute i had to focus or otherwise engage the little lens in my eye, i turned into a little girl.

don't F around with your eyesight bro. when it's gone, it's gone.

i was lucky enough to retain the already poor vision i had anyway at least.

nothing like the painful and literally blinding light they use to illuminate the debris in your eye when extracting the foreign crap. the light is so bright you instantly tear up in that eye. they'll hold your eye opened and pluck out the metal with tweesers.. you can hear the tweezers slipping and grinding like it was in dolby surround sound set on 11.
its bad enough to go thru when an accident does happen, but when metal sits in your eye for more than 3 hours, it starts to rust. thus generating an absolutely stellar couple of days ahead of you for debris removal and a few wonderful weeks of antibacterial eyedrops that cost $80. and excruciating headaches and such.

super fun.

 

Glad you got it looked at, Sparky! I don't like going to the doctor, but I've had to see an opthomologist on a Sunday to get dirt out before. Well worth the trouble and expense!

 

What if the MRI thing happens and the metal goes backwards instead of forwards?

 

What if the MRI thing happens and the metal goes backwards instead of forwards?

Then you must have gotten Anti-metal in your eye!

 

Well it would depend from which way the magnet was pulling wouln't it? I'd rather it came out the front of the eyeball than the back.

 

thats happened to me.. about a year ago at work.. rebuilding our boxblade for the loader, i was cutting 1/2 plate, the torch must have nailed an airpocket in the metal or a fat chunk of rust or something, it was almost like an explosion, i had glasses on but they wernt jammed up all the way to my face, a peice of molten metal flew up and over my glasses directly into the bottom of my eyeball..... i became unglued man,, freeked out.. went directly to the ER... they said if i waited any longer the possiblilty of infection or blindness multiplies exponentially.... i have a small blurry spot in my field of vision in that eye, but nothing to what it could have happened.

 

In a BRAD PITT voice....
I WANT YOU TO GO TO THE HOSPITAL AS FAST AS YOU CAN.
Let someone drive you.

Now a Little EMERGENCY true story.

A guy was in his !#@!%@!$ house (basically a meth lab) and a fire started.
So he did the right thing. He went to the local Saveway store about a half mile away.
After he got in the store he told a customer that he was looking for a fire extiguisher
because his house was on fire.
The lady told the store manager and the police came. Of coarse most of the house burned down. But at least he had a place to stay. The county jail.

 

I can't help but remember a job I was doing 30+ years ago and was flying my small plane to/from on the weekends. I was grinding and seems a small piece got lodged in my eye. It was a Friday so I just "grinned and bore" it, loaded up the plane and took off, on approach to the airport the tower asked me "what my intentions were"? (I thought that strange as I was on short final!) He told me to go around as I was 10ft off the "side of the runway" and if I proceeded I would have taken out the lights! Needless to say I did what I was told. I flew around for a couple of patterns, told the controller that I had gotten something in my eye earlier (and thought it was out). after a couple of low approaches I discovered my peripheral vision was all #$%ked up. I was able to correct for it and went to the hospital on arrival and was told that I had a small piece of metal that had rusted and likely even after treatment I would likely loose some vision.

Now i have really messed up eyes that are corrected (to the best they can) and I am still struggling to see well enough to consistantly make those pretty tig beads!

(MORAL OF THE STORY) You only have one set treat them overly well and if you damage them go to the DOCTOR IMEDIATELY!

Tim

 

Well it would depend from which way the magnet was pulling wouln't it? I'd rather it came out the front of the eyeball than the back.

Magnets only exert an attraction (not a repulsion) for iron and this is also true of magnetic fields produced by electric currents. It is true, though, that the field can either be above or below the eye so thus can pull different directions. I don't know how the field is situated when a person gets an MRI, but think that whichever way something metallic inside a body moves, it won't be good.

 

I hadn't been getting any reply notices to this thread. I just got one and it reminded me to post some pics. I put arrows in to point out the hole burnt into my lower lid and what I initially thought was a scab, but upon further inspection realized it was a hunk of slag. You can see it best on the one where I flipped my eyelid up because it's right on the edge. I also took a pic of the slag next to the magnet I tried to get it out with. It wasn't budging so I flipped my eyelid up and scraped it with the round plastic edge on that magnet, then the magnet caught it when it broke free. After that is when I went to the Dr.
I also included a couple pics of what I was working on when I got that crap in my eye. I was adding a pipe to the back of my backblade. Since it is an old hardened steel cutting edge, it was breaking left and right. It's been fine ever since I added the pipe.

 

Here's the item.

 

I cant say I didn't have this type of thing happen to me. I was doing some grinding laying on my back with no eye protection, got some grindings in my eye, washed my eye out and went back to working, wearing glasses this time.
Next morning I woke up my eye was really was bugging me, my girl friend looked at me and screamed! First at my eye then at me for not being careful. So off we go to the ER, to have it checked. This is no BS the Doc took a Dremel like tool and ground the metal (now embeded in the cornea of my eye rusted over) out. Not to make matters worse but the woth time his hand was shaking because me had multipule trama patients inbound from a multi vechicle TC. the bill was a little over 800 dollars, thank god for insurance

I have saftey glasses everywhere now! I teach saw classes to new Firefighters and will fail them for failing to wear their PPE, especially there safety glasses. If you cant see then you can't see what is about to kill you!!!

By chance I had to go the LWS today and exchange a Cylinder, they have always had a table full of all kinds of saftey glasses, nerdie ones cool ones whatever and cheap. One time I was in there and a guy had his kid with him, the kid was putting on all the glasses though it was fun. The sales guy walked over and told the kid to pick out two pairs of glasses the kid did, the sales man told him one was for him and one was for his dad. After they left, and I was paying for for what I got, I asked the sales guy about what he just did. He told me " we like our customers, we wnat them to keep working and they will keep coming back", plus he said who knows maybe the kid will be a welder.

I use that store all the time, you can't beat customer service like that!

 

Since this thread is still continuing I will throw in a little advise, learned the HARD way. Safety glasses are better than nothing. But when cutting or grinding, wear cutting goggles or a face shield. Crap has a way of getting around safety glasses. If you do get something embedded in you eye go to an OPTHOMOLIGIST as quickly as possible. The quicker you get to him, the easier it is to remove the foreign object and the less it hurts afterward. If you want a scar on your eye, go to the ER. Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. More than once. Guess I'm a slow learner. Yes, I have a scar from the emergency room.

I had an MRI last year. Nothing was asked about metal in my body.