Ink-eye injections

[Vogg]

Okay, so I'm not really a student here and I have no idea how many people actually talk about this but I figured this would be a good place as any to ask actual professionals about this.

We don't know exactly what the long term effects are about eye injections are but what would be your guesses?

I've been thinking* about actually getting the whites of my eyes turned black - I like how it looks, obviously, and am not happy with their current state. I was planning on getting it done by someone who has done this a lot with minor complications if any, but I also want to understand what's going on in the layer of the eye that this ink would be going into (the cavity, if it can even be called that).

Please, I really want to know what your best bet happens with the ink, as aging will occur... I mean, I'm not so stupid as to think my body will remain in a perfect condition before death - I will get old and things will start to break down and I'd like to understand what will happen with that layer in the eye.

Medical papers and other such things would be nice. I'm not used to the search engines that would give me what I'm looking for. I don't even know what terms I'd use for the various layers of my eye. All I know is that there are layers and structures in the eye...

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[kh93]

This forum isn't intended for medical advice.

 

[Vogg]

Well, where would you suggest I go to ask this question then? Because I want to understand what happens to the eye as it ages

 

[kh93]

Ask your doctor. That's what they are there for!

 

[Vogg]

I don't have one and they'd probably want a million dollars just for an answer (not insured)

 

[Vogg]

Okay, so I'm digging around and found this: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2585730/

It's about aging eyes in general. I'm not sure what exactly all of it means but it sure sounds horrible regardless - blue blindness... hardening parts of eyeballs (sclera) seriously what the heck? and then there's muscular degeneration in there??? I mean, physically I don't know what that would do to the layer the ink would sit in, but all of this sounds awful on it's own.

After looking I found that "In an eyeball tattoo, the pigment is trapped between the conjunctiva and the sclera of the eye — squeezed between two flat layers, like jelly in a sandwhich" http://news.bme.com/2012/10/18/the-eyeball-tattoo-faq/

so... how thin is that layer? We must be on the order of microns... maybe about a 100 microns of space between those two layers?

and then... apparently the conjunctiva thins out as we age... http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/eye-disorders/biology-of-the-eyes/effects-of-aging-on-the-eyes

and then there's different layers that make up the sclera, with episclera as the first layer and as the most flexible http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/sclera

even more information on the sclera and conjunctiva http://www.optometry.co.uk/uploads/articles/2968dcb27c990328d028d328b5c649b5_CETheath-10206.pdf

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I am trying to understand guys. I really am. I know most of you are busy, but there's a good number of people like me who wanna understand what we're getting ourselves into and being turned away or told to talk to JUST ONE DOCTOR really wont be a broad stroke of knowledge and if there's a place where people can see there was a discussion about this and actually have a bunch of information to decide for themselves what's best or if it's worth it, would probably mean a lot to them, not just me...

 

[Smurfette]

As kh says above, this site is NOT meant for medical advice, as there is no established patient-physician relationship or other ability to address your questions appropriately as it applies to you personally. You need to seek your own eye provider to answer these questions.

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