No matter who gives the injection of what skill level bleeding in possible. Be glad it's on the outside of the eye and not the inside. And 10 cigs/day is 10 too many. Smoking of any cigarettes is bad for the eye and vision: increases the risk of cataracts, macular degeneration, blockages of arteries and veins within the eye, reduced night vision, skin cancers, melanoma, metastatic cancer to the eye mainly lung and "wet macular degeneration".
You need to do your part to take care of your health. Speaking to a patient about stopping smoking is part of a physician, nurse, health practitioner's job.
JCH MD
I too had the second of the series of three avastin injections for Ocular Histoplasmosis. The first one was nearly painless and all went well, the second,however, did not. After a long lecture about smoking(I only smoke about 10 cigs a day) I received the injection. I returned home slept with the patch on and got up the next morning to find my eye was totally full of blood!!! I take plavix and a couple meds for hight blood pressure so it scared me. I phoned the physician and he said (very flippant) oh I may have nicked a blood vessel it should go away in a couple of days. Well, this is day 4 and still I look like a monster, you can still barely see any white of my left eye! I don't know if the doc was just in a hurry, or if he was disgusted at the fact I was still smoking, but, either way this is way wrong.
I just had the Avastin shot yesterday. Getting the shot was scary, but turned out to be nothing once it was done. The burning afterward is a M.F. Go home and sleep it off.
I'm still seeing the spot that was being treated. I'm hoping it goes away in the next few days. How long does it usually take?
I am wanting to get the Avastin shot. I am very nervous. How long was your eye bloodshot? Can you please email me? ***@**** put "avastin" in the subject!
You can actually find videos of the injection being done on the net. IMHO it does not look very fun. However, having after having undergpne so many procedures on my eyes, I'm sure it looks worse than it actually is.
Hope everything turns out well. Good luck.
Thanks for sharing your experience and good luck.
JCH MD