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code monkey
This happened to me a few months ago but I finally found the write-up again. I was fragging some Radioactive Dragon Eyes when one of the polyps exploded right into my eyes, was a great long distance shot. I've gotten zoanthid and paly fruit punch in open cuts before, and even in my eyes a ton of times, but this time 5-10 seconds later... HOLY WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION! It was like getting maced with battery acid.
After a mad dash to the bathroom which like a horror movie felt like it got further away the closer I got to it, and a massive eye wash, the burning turned into belt sanded retinas. About an hour later I started feeling weird. Like someone was slowly lowering a couple of cinder blocks and a small anvil on my chest, not much fun...
It went away after a few hours but I felt like crap for a few days, it was never an "I need to go to the hospital" thing, honestly with a neurotoxin a hospital visit wouldn't have done any good. I did pick up a bottle of that eye squeegee stuff from the drug store on the way home. The fancy kind, with the plastic half egg you put on your eye to swirl things around. The kind you spoil yourself with when you don't have health insurance for eye doctors and you know your work isn't going to cover jack **** as far as mishaps on the job because that one time you went to the emergency room with a massive finger infection from unpacking corals and had to get three rounds of antibiotics including a shot on your *** they told you to cram the costs... I digress. The eye squeegee stuff really helped though.
I ended up having to take the next two days off of work and my eyes were blood red for about 4 days. So yeah, wear goggles when you're fragging zoanthids. That said I still feel like 99% of the "I got sick from zoanthids" posts are hypochondriacs who got a runny nose after fragging palys; when you really get hit by palytoxin there's no doubt.
After a mad dash to the bathroom which like a horror movie felt like it got further away the closer I got to it, and a massive eye wash, the burning turned into belt sanded retinas. About an hour later I started feeling weird. Like someone was slowly lowering a couple of cinder blocks and a small anvil on my chest, not much fun...
It went away after a few hours but I felt like crap for a few days, it was never an "I need to go to the hospital" thing, honestly with a neurotoxin a hospital visit wouldn't have done any good. I did pick up a bottle of that eye squeegee stuff from the drug store on the way home. The fancy kind, with the plastic half egg you put on your eye to swirl things around. The kind you spoil yourself with when you don't have health insurance for eye doctors and you know your work isn't going to cover jack **** as far as mishaps on the job because that one time you went to the emergency room with a massive finger infection from unpacking corals and had to get three rounds of antibiotics including a shot on your *** they told you to cram the costs... I digress. The eye squeegee stuff really helped though.
I ended up having to take the next two days off of work and my eyes were blood red for about 4 days. So yeah, wear goggles when you're fragging zoanthids. That said I still feel like 99% of the "I got sick from zoanthids" posts are hypochondriacs who got a runny nose after fragging palys; when you really get hit by palytoxin there's no doubt.
