Karen and Nancy:
My eye lid was was not as opened as the other one and my eye Dr tested the muscle and it appeared to be strong enough to close on its own. So he said it was time to remove the weight (plus I was sick of looking at it, as well as my friends). He tested my eye by pulling up on my lid while I tried to keep my eye closed. So far it is closing when I blink and it stayed closed all night last night.
The procedure was very simple. I sat in the office chair while he did it. He numbed my eye to calm it down while he injected on my eye lid novacane and that took about 10 minutes. It stung a little and then I walked to another room in the office and he tested it to make sure I couldn't feel anything and he did a small incision. My husband actually sat in the room and watched the whole thing. It took about 10 minutes to pull the weight out and he stiched me up. I put ice on it in the evening and took two aspirins.
When I had the eye weight placed in my eye, I was already in the hospital. That surgery I didn't feel anything, the one yesterday I felt a little sting which really wasn't bad at all.
Nancy, I forgot to call my Dr today and tell them what happened. I guess I need to do that tomorrow. At 2:45 AM when it happened, I was sleeping so well and then felt my eye all wet. I was so excited when I woke up, I thought for a brief moment that by removing my gold weight that my dry eye finally got tears. Boy was I wrong when I walked in the bathroom and looked in the mirror and saw blood over my face. I said a few choice words and thought oh my gosh, my eye ball that was double vision a few months ago was bleeding. Then I remembered that I had stiches on my eye lid and pulled out my old eye patches and gauze and fixed me up. I was more worried I had blood on my pillow case - which thankfully I didn't. I am putting an antibiotic ointment on it twice a day.
