Will getting conjunctival cyst hurt?

[emiwuffie]

I had strabismus surgery when I was very little on both eyes, then again on 4/26/2017 on both eyes. This  conjunctival cyst is a complication from the surgery in April. I am wanting to know if this will hurt getting it off? A month back after seeing my ophthalmologist for the third time to due with this cyst he told me he would take it off then and there in his office. He numbed it the poked it, he couldn't get a hold of  it. He said he thought it would be hard not full of fluid. That's when he told me it would have to come out when I am under. Will getting this off hurt like when I had my strabismus surgery?

[JohnHaganMD]

I can't give you an exact answer. Conjuctival cysts (CC) are extremely common in the general population without surgery.  Most are small and do not cause any problems. These are left alone. Some are large enough to feel or stick up behind the eyelid. I remove these in the office using eye drop anesthesia. It's painless and takes just a minute.  First time I just stick a needle through it making two holes. Usually they do not re-occur. The eye is sometimes bloodshot for a week. If it reoccurs then same thing in office I grasp it with forceps and cut a larger drainage hole. To date that has taken care of it.  I no longer do pediatrics and strabismus surgery but cysts are not rare after that surgery. Usually it was a child that could not cooperate. I only recall one child in 20 years of eye muscle surgery where I had to do a general anesthesia excision.  So I do not understand why you are having to have general anesthesia. Also these cysts are all soft and not hard and are filled with fluid