Standard Warning! Don't do this, you might poke your eye out ... literally.
At A Glance Author Jason Contact Jason@bme.anon IAM kodakjason When It just happened I've always been interested in the piercing every since I saw the picture of it here, just have never been able to find the right time to do it. Well since that time in back in 2000 I had kinda forgotten about it until the recent article on BME. Although my work still doesn't allow visible piercings, (something I am trying to work out a deal with so I can keep it) my piercer now lives in the same town as me so I thought I would give it a try.
My piercer has never really questioned what I have wanted to get done. When I came down and told him what I wanted down he was reluctant but said he would anyway.
We did this piercing on really short notice. At first we were going to try to clamp it but didn't have anything to protect the inside of the eye lid. So we got the bright idea to clamp the eye lash. Oops ... Well as good of idea as that was I am now missing about a dozen or so of them. We finally decided that I would just hold the eye lid back and he would pierce it free hand.
By the time we got to the actual piercing I was nervous, which I normally don't get. The piercing its self was uneventful and painless. I shed a couple tears but that was it. I didn't even know the needle had been run through and the jewelery (16 ga 1/4 in CBR I believe) was in before I knew it.
I knew the placement was not good the minute I saw it (it was to close to the center of the eye) but decided to keep it for 1 or 2 days to see how it was sleeping with it. Although it did rub on my eye it wasn't that noticeable or annoying except when i looked hard to my right. I used H2Ocean through out the day (4-5 times I believe) and at the end of the night I went to the store to buy eye drops.
Through out the day my eye lid slowly swelled up and my eye was red from irritation from the ring. I figured I would get the redness but really wasn't expecting the swelling, although now that I look back I don't know why I didn't. The only true uncomfortable part was it felt like I had a migraine behind my eye. I'm not sure if this was from the actual piercing just being sore and in the eye region or from the slight pressure that the ring was placing on my eye.
I ended up going to the bars that night to meet friends and show off my new piercing. The smoke from the bar annoyed my eye more than usual and I didn't have my eye drops with so by the end of the night my eye was really annoyed. When I got home I put eye drops in it and used H2Ocean and the irritation went back down to where it had been earlier.
Sleeping was uneventful, I woke up in the morning and it actually felt better than he night before. My eyelid was swollen and my eye was still red but the overall feeling was better than the night before when I went to sleep.
I ended up going down to the shop and taking it out today after I got ready. I didn't take it out because it was annoying or irritating, I took it out because the placement was so off. I had it in long enough that I knew once I had it in the proper spot that I would be able to keep it for a while. I felt that the stress of having it so close to the cornea wasn't worth one more day of experimentation.
Overall it was an interesting experience. Although I only had it in for 24 hours or so I believe with proper placement this is a piercing I could have kept. The piercing never got in the way of my vision either, every once in a while I would catch it in the corner of my sight but was very similar to when I had my bridge piercing.
My piercer and I are already starting prep work for a retry of this piercing. We are going to use a clamp next time that is either filed down or has something over the ridges to protect my eye lid. So in 2-3 weeks or so hopefully I will have a piercing that has proper placement and I will be able to keep.
I excited to try again, hopefully everything will go right and I have a beautiful piercing to show off.
