This article creeps me out!

My Eyeball Just Fell Out of Its Socket
What should I do?
By Daniel Engber
Updated Monday, March 13, 2006, at 5:46 PM ET

Allan Ray is helped off the court

Villanova basketball star Allan Ray had his eyeball literally poked out of its socket by an opposing player in a recent game. Ray has been treating the injury with eye drops, and he planned to meet with doctors to find out if he can play in the first round of the NCAA tournament. What should you do if your eyeball comes out of your head?

Get it put back in, and soon. The longer you remain in this rare condition known as "globe luxation" the more strain you'll put on the blood vessels and nerves that connect your eye to the rest of your head. Your luxated globes will also be susceptible to corneal abrasions or inflammation, and the feeling of your eyelids clamped down behind them won't be pleasant.

You should be able to get your eye back in place without serious, long-term damage. (If the ocular muscles tear or if the optic nerve is severed, your outlook won't be as clear.) The treatment for globe luxation is pretty simple: Doctors apply some topical painkillers, hold back your lashes, and poke your eyeball into its socket by pressing on the white part with gloved fingers. (In some cases, they'll use a simple tool like a bent paperclip to shoehorn it back into place.) You might get antibiotics, lubricating drops, or steroids to follow up for a few days while your vision returns to normal. If your doctors can't pop your eye back in because you've got too much swelling in the socket, for example they'll give you an eye shield and consider a more invasive procedure.

Not all popped eyeballs come from head trauma. A few people can luxate their globes on purpose, and certain others get "spontaneous globe luxation" when their eyelids are pushed in the right way. Someone with shallow eye sockets or floppy eyelid syndrome, for example, might pop his eyeballs during a regular eye exam. You can also trigger luxation while putting in your contact lenses, or with a particularly violent sneeze. You might even pop your eyeballs by trying to exhale while keeping your nose and mouth closed (i.e., performing the Valsalva maneuver).

If your eyeballs fall out of their sockets repeatedly, you might be a candidate for a lateral tarsorrhaphy in which doctors sew up your eyelids part of the way to keep them from opening too wide. You could also learn the following technique for popping your eye back in yourself: First direct your gaze downward. Now pinch and pull your upper eyelid with the thumb and index finger of one hand. Lay a finger from your other hand on the top part of your luxated eyeball, taking care to press only on the insensitive white part. While you continue to hold your eyelid up, push your eyeball gently down and back at the same time until it's part of the way in. Then try to look upwards; if everything goes right your eyeball will rotate under the upper lid and back into its socket.

is now a bad time for a "keep your eye on the ball" joke??

sometimes when I yawn I feel like one of my eyeballs are going to pop out.

damn i forgot about that emoticon , it's more fitting

Ouch.

raveun2thejoyfantastic said:

WTF?!

I want to meet someone with this problem.

FruitToAttractBears said:

I don't!
[Edited 12/6/07 22:58pm]

roodboi said:

no. its not.

luxate! cool word

I will only do this once. It hurts

heybaby said:

yes it is

FruitToAttractBears said:

oooh. That's is horrifying.
That is bizarre.
"globe luxation" I think was supposed to be the title of P Diddy's next album. he thought it meant something sexy.

alwayslate said:

it SOUNDS sexy though

Waiting for imago's 'What 2 do if ur balls pops out' thread

typo included

PANDURITO said:

hello Pandy

Hola Carlota

PANDURITO said:

PANDURITO said:

Eat it!

PANDURITO said:

Don't encourage him, please.

Holy shit! Any pictures of it hanging out? I wanna see! Pun intended!

Does anybody remember this lady who could make her eyes bulge way out of her head? When I first saw this, it creeped me out, seriously!

http://www.ebaumsworld.co...watch/430/

That can't be good for her eye muscles.

this is gross

i'd freak if my eye came out

psychodelicide said:

Boy, I'd hate to see her face when she gets pissed off!

I'll run away screaming

paintedlady said:

Me too, that shit is just scary!

While the visuals are harmless, the audio is NSFW.