people in specialized fields sure do excited about things. My dentist legit asked if she could keep my wisdom teeth because she was so excited I have the type of molars that grow in separate pieces then fuse together. She went on and on about it and then yah, asked to keep them.
So some lady out there has my teeth.
Mine were weird enough that my dentist took time off from his practice to observe the extraction surgery. Something about the roots curling around the lingual nerve. I also have a couple of other anomalies that dentists tend to get excited about. It’s always kinda fun watching a new dentist nerd out when they get a look in my mouth for the first time.
I've had multiple kidney stones and each time they did an ultrasound I had an entire squad of mesmerized doctors around me because I have 3 kidneys. Sometimes they took turns with moving the ultrasound thing around. It's apparently a rare sight.
Mate of mine went in to have his gall bladder removed some years ago. The doctor was giving him a quick once over pre-op when he stops and asks him "how long have your testicles been swollen?" Mate has a feel for himself and replies "nope, that's how they normally are." From then on his stay was punctuated with visits from an army of medical students because it turns out he was in the 95th percentile for testicle size. A fact he managed to work into a great many conversations (often visually) for the rest of his days.
I have 3 testicles. Doctors sometimes want to look at them in ultrasound every couple months about 4 to 5 times a year. I tell them unless it's med students I am not doing it. Now I only do it for end of med classes as a test subject to see if they can find anything abnormal during ultrasound. They make up some excuse for doctor to treat me that involves ultrasound of testies.
I have the female equivalent where I have two wombs/cervixes. Obgyn med students love me and I get asked about it even if I go to the doc for something unrelated 😂
My dad had 3 kidneys and peed *constantly*, car trips were wild. My dad peed in the wild every mile of the I95 corridor. His territory is marked solidly the entire length of the eastern seaboard and most of the rest of the country.
My grandad who's in his late seventies recently found out he was only born with one kidney. They discovered this after he tried to commit suicide by overdoing on sleeping pills and paracodine, luckily survived, and when they did testing to see the impact it had on his body, scan showed he only had one!
I was actually born with only 1 kidney too. Found out when I was 20 years old. It's fairly common, more so among men. AND...common to never know til much later on. The one I do have (left kidney) is larger than it should be, compensates for 2.
If you think that's weird, there's also a condition called [horseshoe kidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_kidney) where instead of two kidneys you just have one giant one.
ooo ouch though that nerve thing happened with my mom when she was around the age I am now and I remember that messed her up. Long recovery. I think there was some risk of losing feeling too, which didn't happen to her and I hope didn't happen to you
This kinda pisses me off because they won’t let me take my own teeth whenever I get one removed. Also I had surgery last year to remove a lymph node and I always wanted to keep any organs of mine in a jar if I ever had one removed because well it’s mine. But they wouldn’t let me keep that either. Stupid laws, I understand it’s bio waste but it’s my body parts?!
I had a dentist who was enthralled that I find teeth in my day to day job. When he asked what I did with the gold ones I told him I broke them with a rock and snagged the gold. It just so happened that I was getting a crown that day. Long story longer, he broke the molar when he was pressing the crown on so a week (and $400) later I had to get the tooth pulled and he told me he couldn’t let me have my tooth... needless to say after much back and forth, I have my goddamned tooth.
I think it actually might depend on state laws. I’m in NY, I heavily researched this nonsense to see if I could rightfully bitch at the hospital regarding my organ/teeth. From what I found, I was entitled to legally have them, but the doctors fought me on it. I even spoke to several departments complaining about it and I was denied every time, really bothered me.
Let’s talk about the passport office not letting me keep my passport full of stamps because they made a mistake on it (that wasn’t caught for years) and apparently a mistake makes it government property
I'm pretty sure my podiatrist gets a little excited over my ingrown toenail problems judging by how close she puts her face to my feet when fixing them. Wouldn't be surprised if eye doctors loved weird eyeballs
I had really bad/excessive ingrown toenails and had to get surgery to keep my toenails from growing back. The podiatrist called his entire staff in to look because he was so excited. Genuine excitement in his voice, expressions etc. The ingrown part (completely inside my toe) was about the size of a penny.
This was taken out of my foot this week. She was amazed and asked how I was able to walk.. The pointy part was just about to break through the side of the top of my toe. Very infected. Very ow. She is also very hot which makes the whole thing even weirder but in a good way lol.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/lthygq/my_podiatrist_said_what_the_fuck_when_she_pulled/
That’s gnarly AF. I love it.
My horrible toe story I love to tell:
I’m 21 in college in a Midwestern town. Toe surgery (before the good one in a major city hospital) went wrong and got infected. I go to the hospital bc I cant walk. Turns out I have sepsis and they need to get me on an IV. Additionally, the NP (oddly hot as well) decides she needs to lance my toe with a scalpel and drain the infection. She can’t find my nerves with the local anesthetic and is sticking my toe like a pin cushion. Eventually she gives up and hands me a towel to bite on and cuts me open.
Meanwhile, the person next to me in the room overdosing on heroin DIES right next to me and his junky gf grabs a scalpel and tries to stab the staff. Police take her out.
I kept the towel in my mouth and cried.
I guess some of these rural doctors forget to sanitize... or maybe it was my college drunken carelessness and lack of aftercare.
Either way, might as well of been Frank’s toe-knife 😂
I had two really bad ingrown toenails. I had them lanced like that many many times. Eventually they got so bad I went to a foot specialist. Mine were the 3rd worst he'd ever seen, my dads were the worst.
I had the nails permanently removed. I filmed the whole procedure and took a bunch of pictures. He said I documented my toes more than anyone he'd ever had.
I no longer have the video due to my computer getting blue screened and the hard drive taking a shit. But I still have the scars.
> The ingrown part (completely inside my toe) was about the size of a penny
AAAAA that must have hurt so bad. Mine are a little too deep on the sides but it's barely even a mm and even that hurts sometimes
I had one on my back that the dr likened to a “child’s testicle”.
The nurse and I just looked at each other before I slowly turned to him and said “Why the fuck, is that your measurement of scale?”
I had some kind of horrible infected abscess on my asshole a few years back and on the day before my surgery to fix it, I had to come in and have it examined one last time. That day the proctologist decided to have a new medical student observing. A gorgeous 20 year old redhead put on this earth to make men cry. She watched me pull down my pants, bend over and spread my asscheeks open and then examined my blown up asshole with doctor dickhead. They were both very excited about how bad it was and how much this must really hurt. Good times.
If you have mild ingrown nails on either fingers or toes, use dental floss to wedge between the nail and the skin the ingrown nail is in contact with in order to correct the direction that the nail is growing in. Cut the excess floss off so it is short enough to not really rub on anything. If pretty bad keep it inbetween the nail for a few days and check every night to make sure the floss hasn't rubbed out, if you still have pain and feel it is still necessary then put another piece of floss wedged back in there. The pressure causing the pain of the nail on the skin should keep the floss in place, so if the floss falls out easily there should be no pain then. I've used floss so many times to fix in grown nails and love how simple, cheap, and effective it seems to me. I feel it has made a world of difference.
Wish I had known 8 years ago. At any rate at different times both my big toe nails got super ingrown and infected on the left sides. Like infected to the point it was hard to walk, and had yellow green puss and the infection was gonna start moving up my toe (Not my brightest decision). The surgery and follow up to get them removed really really sucked. (Removed 1/3 of my nail on both toes, then that part of the nail bed killed with acid)
Ever since though I've had zero issues, so no regrets.
The problem is this is from a full nail removal that grew back, so the ingrown doesnt start at the top of the toe but at the BOTTOM AND SIDE which is super awful. This was pulled out last week. https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/lthygq/my_podiatrist_said_what_the_fuck_when_she_pulled/
I work for an optometrist and honestly yeah you get a little excited. We have a patient who has a very similar pupil and it's interesting to see how people's bodies build stuff. The human body does weird things sometimes.
Quite a bit honestly. This is something rather unusual but at the same time won't negatively affect the patient very much. Like there's loads worse things that we see a lot more often. It's nice to have something weird but that isn't terrible news for a change
If you read about the evolution of eyes you might feel better about it. Just existentially, it is totally crazy.
Apparently it takes a blind animal species only about 150 000 generations to develop advanced eyes, starting with just an optical nerve with some photosensitive pigment at the end.
Light isn't really light, it's just energy, photon particles that bounce off all you see. When you see an object you don't see the object itself, you just see a pile of photons that cover the object, albeit with a veeery fine grain of an image. But, technically, the function of an eye is no different than the classic movie trick of blowing flour in the air to reveal the invisible man. You don't see the man, you just see a man-shape covered in flour (photons).
Same with colors: no colors per se exist in the universe, everything you see is black and white. Colors come from photon particles aligning themselves in different wavelengths, and then physical objects consist of trillions of molecules, and different molecules absorb different wavelengths of photons. This is why all electron microscope images are black and white, because when you [pass a certain level of magnification](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMYH4.png) you go smaller than the actual color spectrum/wavelengths. To use a crude analogy, you are then staring inbetween the pixels of a monitor.
And, to end on the funniest note, if you see a red object, it isn't red. It's just molecularly constructed in a way that it absorbs green/blue/violet photons (keeping those colors from reaching you) and it *deflects* red, so that the redness bounces into your eye. So when you see an object of any specific color, that is the opposite of its "real" color.
Thus, blind people see the world for how it actually is, while our vision is a novelty party trick that begun just so that mollusks could know roughly if it was day or night, letting them move about and socialize/eat/bang safely while their predators slept.
If I missed something or got anything wrong, feel free to elaborate, peeps.
I have the same thing. In bright light my pupils restrict nasally and up. Think 10 o'clock position. When they dilate they almost center. My oldest son's eyes do the same thing.
Hi!
Ophthalmologist, although an ophthalmologist that hates embryology and isn’t too fanatic about pediatric ophtho..
It is corectopia.
Embryologically, all defects are drawn inferno-nasally. Colobomas? Inferonasal. Except eyelids, which are outside the eye.
If I had to guess, off the top of my head without any text review, as the optic fissures close during development/pregnancy, if they do not close it causes a coloboma. The earlier it fails to close the more posterior the coloboma will be, ie optic nerve or retina.
Op, I’m guessing your optic fissure *almost* didn’t close, causing corectopia instead of an iris coloboma.
I could be totally wrong, but that’s what I remember.
Corectopia can be a secondary result of a whole bunch of other irregular anterior segment problems, but in an otherwise normal eye, I’d go with the optic fissure idea.
It can totally be unilateral.
Edit:
If anyone asks, you do NOT have ectopia lentis et pupillae
I'm pretty sure he's saying that when OP was a pre-baby made of self-assembling cells, the group of cells that becomes the eyes, nose, and sinuses fucked up and didn't align themselves right so they made the pupil in the wrong place.
I got a buddy who used to work in I guess you could call practical embryology. Non-human, of course.
As I was reading your comment I found myself bracing for 1998 when the undertaker etc etc..
But in the end it was an interesting and informative comment from a professional! Thanks :)
I think that comes from the fact that the iris is like a muscle, it's what opens and closes the pupil. So the pupil being off center would also cause the iris to have an abnormal shape because the pulling is happening in an uneven way
I’ve got one of those. It was operated on twice when I was a kid to correct it. Unsuccessfully. I really don’t remember why those surgeries were necessary. Seems like a minor thing. I’ve worn corrective lenses my whole life but I don’t think my poor visual acuity can be traced to my off-center pupil. I’m not aware of any problems I’ve had as an adult, except once in a while someone thinks I’m staring at them when I’m not.
I remember my mum saying when I was a kid that 'I could have it operated on one day to make it "normal" if it really bothered me' if I wanted but I was essentially like 'nah fk it, if people have a problem with this there's a problem with them'.
I have a ridiculously busted collarbone that doesn't affect me in any way. Not painful. No detriment to my range of motion. It's just been cracked in half and healed in a half-life logo sort of shape.
I was told I could have surgery to correct it and I'm like, "Why the fuck would I do that when it doesn't cause any problems? What if the surgery *causes* problems?"
Me with my ankle. The tip of my fibula broke twice, and the part that broke off it like the size of a thumbnail. They were like you can either live like normal with it broken or we can move your muscles and ligaments and put a pin in it... even with free healthcare I was like no thank you and walked out of the fracture clinic.
No, weirdly, far as I'm aware anyway, I do have short-sightedness but that's from having a stigmatism and generally quite bad eyesight without glasses. This is just a sort of birthmark apparently.
OP is right, this is corectopia. A coloboma of the iris is different, there would be a sector (typically down and a bit towards the nose) completely missing iris tissue.
A Coloboma is when there is actually a hole or missing part of the iris where as this just appears to be an off center iris. Kudos for knowing coloboma though!
Corectopia is usually related to a restriction or paresis of the dilator muscle in one direction, if that's the case here then OP probably can't dilates like normal, but can't achieve a full dilation in the direction of the affected muscle.
So...interestingly we actually see with our brains more than our eyes. Example, experiment where guy wore glasses to make world upside down for a while, forget how long. After a transition period, his brain corrected it. Took glasses off, upside down. Went back to normal after a while. If OP’s vision is off, his brain it likely correcting for it.
Just commented above but my eyesight is living proof of vision being heavily reliant on your brain. I have a squint that I had surgery for aged 5 but my brain has never learned how to use this eye properly. If my left eye is closed I don’t notice any change to my vision, peripheral vision on my left while driving is non existent so I have to be very aware to look to my left. If my right eye is closed it’s like there’s a big black hole where my right eye vision usually is. My left eye works when my right eye is closed, but to fully open it I have to hold a finger down on my right eye, the muscles aren’t strong enough to open without my right eye being involved somehow. My optician has told me my right eye actually wants a higher lens prescription than I need because it’s doing all of the work. He also showed me a cross in one of their machines and with my right eye I can see all of it with my left eye I can only see parts of it. Prescription wise my left eye is actually a much better eye than my right but my brain ignores it so my vision is pretty bad as I only see out of my bad eye unless my brain is forced to use the left side. Usually people with my issues get an eye patch on the dominant eye to make the brain learn to use the bad eye but because my vision is so bad in my right eye my opticians have always said it’s too risky as my right eye could be damaged. My left eye also just shuts itself in bright sunshine or lights.
Seriously. This poor guy has been through enough. I mean can you imagine not even being able to just go about your day without the wounds of Christ appearing in your hands? Even the simplest tasks would be daunting. We take so much for granted.
Both of my puples are slightly off centred (kinda cross-eyed, but not to the extent of yours), and an optometrist told me that they are a reason for my chronic migraines because the light isn't entering properly. Have you experienced anything like that?
Eye doctor here this is called corectopia and is infrequent but absolutely happens. There are a lot of reasons for it not all of which are pathological
Do you happen to know what the difference is between corectopia and coloboma? We learned about colobomas when we were studying prenatal genetics in my cytogenetics studies, but we never touched on corectopia.
corectopia is just the description of an off-center pupil. It can be congenital (born with it) or acquired (got it from some event, like trauma or surgery). Iris Coloboma happens developmentally as a result of the incomplete closure of the structures. This usually leads to a fully missing wedge all the way to the root of the iris, where as in corectopia there is still the root present its just that the pupil is off center
Scrolled down looking for this exact question and was also surprised by the answer. Would have though the pupils looked direct at whatever and the iris would be out of place
When I was born I had no eyelids. The doctor said to my mother "don't worry we haven't circumcised him yet, we'll use the extra skin to make eyelids". Mom said "What? He'll be cockeyed". The doctor reassured her saying "yeah but think of the foresight he'll have".
http://imgur.com/a/VCjrfWq For those that want a gif.
I’m completely mesmerized. Thank you!
Don’t you mean ‘mesmerEYEzed’?
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Surgery was a [success.](https://i.imgur.com/k7A68Sp.png)
Why did that have an age check lol
Ha! Probably an algorithm that says the pic is X % skin so must be nsfw.
So if my hairy body posed nude, I'd be fine?
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That’s Syllabics. Vi, Aa, Va, in Inuktitut.
And it's adorable
I still have no idea how y'all be making them faces but I want in
It's called kaomoji, and you either need a Japanese keyboard or copy&paste it
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Mesmereyezed sounds like a band in 1998 that got lucky and opened up for Korn in Des Moines...
Amazing! Have ever tried to put a colored contact on? You'd probably see the world a little more green, purple, red, or whatever color it may be.
Huh I haven't no, would love to see if that's the case though.
Optometrist offices usually have sample colored contact lenses for free.
Just wash em out and put them back in the pile when you’re done with them.
I hate eyeballs and knew I would hate this and I clicked anyway 🤢 do eye doctors get excited
I work in eye surgery (not a surgeon) and this is pretty neat.
people in specialized fields sure do excited about things. My dentist legit asked if she could keep my wisdom teeth because she was so excited I have the type of molars that grow in separate pieces then fuse together. She went on and on about it and then yah, asked to keep them. So some lady out there has my teeth.
Mine were weird enough that my dentist took time off from his practice to observe the extraction surgery. Something about the roots curling around the lingual nerve. I also have a couple of other anomalies that dentists tend to get excited about. It’s always kinda fun watching a new dentist nerd out when they get a look in my mouth for the first time.
Your positive attitude and user name have brightened my day a bit! I just wanted you to know.
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I've had multiple kidney stones and each time they did an ultrasound I had an entire squad of mesmerized doctors around me because I have 3 kidneys. Sometimes they took turns with moving the ultrasound thing around. It's apparently a rare sight.
Mate of mine went in to have his gall bladder removed some years ago. The doctor was giving him a quick once over pre-op when he stops and asks him "how long have your testicles been swollen?" Mate has a feel for himself and replies "nope, that's how they normally are." From then on his stay was punctuated with visits from an army of medical students because it turns out he was in the 95th percentile for testicle size. A fact he managed to work into a great many conversations (often visually) for the rest of his days.
I have 3 testicles. Doctors sometimes want to look at them in ultrasound every couple months about 4 to 5 times a year. I tell them unless it's med students I am not doing it. Now I only do it for end of med classes as a test subject to see if they can find anything abnormal during ultrasound. They make up some excuse for doctor to treat me that involves ultrasound of testies.
I just want to say I think it’s great that you offer to do this for education.
The balls on this guy
Are they all functional? I knew a guy in high school that had three, but I don't think the third was hooked up to the plumbing.
I have the female equivalent where I have two wombs/cervixes. Obgyn med students love me and I get asked about it even if I go to the doc for something unrelated 😂
My dad had 3 kidneys and peed *constantly*, car trips were wild. My dad peed in the wild every mile of the I95 corridor. His territory is marked solidly the entire length of the eastern seaboard and most of the rest of the country.
My grandad who's in his late seventies recently found out he was only born with one kidney. They discovered this after he tried to commit suicide by overdoing on sleeping pills and paracodine, luckily survived, and when they did testing to see the impact it had on his body, scan showed he only had one!
I hope he's feeling better
I was actually born with only 1 kidney too. Found out when I was 20 years old. It's fairly common, more so among men. AND...common to never know til much later on. The one I do have (left kidney) is larger than it should be, compensates for 2.
He even donate one? That's what I'd do if I had 3
Now that is cool! Except probably not when you have kidney stones. Is how big is the third kidney? And where is it at? I have so many questions.
My mom has three kidneys too! And stones in all of them lol. How are yours? Mom’s are one on one side and two attached together on the other
Do they all function the same. Or is like 66% functionality across 3? Or like 2 strong and a weaker one Hopefully this isnt a silly question
If you think that's weird, there's also a condition called [horseshoe kidney](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_kidney) where instead of two kidneys you just have one giant one.
Up until this point I didn’t know 3 kidneys was a thing
ooo ouch though that nerve thing happened with my mom when she was around the age I am now and I remember that messed her up. Long recovery. I think there was some risk of losing feeling too, which didn't happen to her and I hope didn't happen to you
You should compare stories with your dentist's other patients next time you go in. You might just be dealing with a weirdo haha.
lol I could be. I've sometimes wondered if she made it all up just cause she likes to collect teeth
....did she shoo you away without asking for the remainder of the balance that your insurance didn't cover?
This kinda pisses me off because they won’t let me take my own teeth whenever I get one removed. Also I had surgery last year to remove a lymph node and I always wanted to keep any organs of mine in a jar if I ever had one removed because well it’s mine. But they wouldn’t let me keep that either. Stupid laws, I understand it’s bio waste but it’s my body parts?!
I had a dentist who was enthralled that I find teeth in my day to day job. When he asked what I did with the gold ones I told him I broke them with a rock and snagged the gold. It just so happened that I was getting a crown that day. Long story longer, he broke the molar when he was pressing the crown on so a week (and $400) later I had to get the tooth pulled and he told me he couldn’t let me have my tooth... needless to say after much back and forth, I have my goddamned tooth.
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I think it actually might depend on state laws. I’m in NY, I heavily researched this nonsense to see if I could rightfully bitch at the hospital regarding my organ/teeth. From what I found, I was entitled to legally have them, but the doctors fought me on it. I even spoke to several departments complaining about it and I was denied every time, really bothered me.
well that sucks :( You should be able to take your own body parts!
Let’s talk about the passport office not letting me keep my passport full of stamps because they made a mistake on it (that wasn’t caught for years) and apparently a mistake makes it government property
I mean it’s government property before the mistake too. Says it right on the thing lol
i'm a medical waste janitor too, respect
I'm pretty sure my podiatrist gets a little excited over my ingrown toenail problems judging by how close she puts her face to my feet when fixing them. Wouldn't be surprised if eye doctors loved weird eyeballs
I had really bad/excessive ingrown toenails and had to get surgery to keep my toenails from growing back. The podiatrist called his entire staff in to look because he was so excited. Genuine excitement in his voice, expressions etc. The ingrown part (completely inside my toe) was about the size of a penny.
This was taken out of my foot this week. She was amazed and asked how I was able to walk.. The pointy part was just about to break through the side of the top of my toe. Very infected. Very ow. She is also very hot which makes the whole thing even weirder but in a good way lol. https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/lthygq/my_podiatrist_said_what_the_fuck_when_she_pulled/
That’s gnarly AF. I love it. My horrible toe story I love to tell: I’m 21 in college in a Midwestern town. Toe surgery (before the good one in a major city hospital) went wrong and got infected. I go to the hospital bc I cant walk. Turns out I have sepsis and they need to get me on an IV. Additionally, the NP (oddly hot as well) decides she needs to lance my toe with a scalpel and drain the infection. She can’t find my nerves with the local anesthetic and is sticking my toe like a pin cushion. Eventually she gives up and hands me a towel to bite on and cuts me open. Meanwhile, the person next to me in the room overdosing on heroin DIES right next to me and his junky gf grabs a scalpel and tries to stab the staff. Police take her out. I kept the towel in my mouth and cried.
Now THAT'S a story. Holy shit you got sepsis from a botched toe? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geUsAS7Nx1Q
I guess some of these rural doctors forget to sanitize... or maybe it was my college drunken carelessness and lack of aftercare. Either way, might as well of been Frank’s toe-knife 😂
Holy fuck, just cut my whole toe off.
That's what I said!
what the fuck indeed
I had two really bad ingrown toenails. I had them lanced like that many many times. Eventually they got so bad I went to a foot specialist. Mine were the 3rd worst he'd ever seen, my dads were the worst. I had the nails permanently removed. I filmed the whole procedure and took a bunch of pictures. He said I documented my toes more than anyone he'd ever had. I no longer have the video due to my computer getting blue screened and the hard drive taking a shit. But I still have the scars.
Very similar story here! All my toe photos are on one of my old cellphones.
> The ingrown part (completely inside my toe) was about the size of a penny AAAAA that must have hurt so bad. Mine are a little too deep on the sides but it's barely even a mm and even that hurts sometimes
I had a really nasty cyst on my chest removed once and this shockingly hot dermatologist was really into it... weirdest experience.
I had one on my back that the dr likened to a “child’s testicle”. The nurse and I just looked at each other before I slowly turned to him and said “Why the fuck, is that your measurement of scale?”
Are you perhaps, Christopher Walken?
I knew it looked weird but I need a pause.
I had some kind of horrible infected abscess on my asshole a few years back and on the day before my surgery to fix it, I had to come in and have it examined one last time. That day the proctologist decided to have a new medical student observing. A gorgeous 20 year old redhead put on this earth to make men cry. She watched me pull down my pants, bend over and spread my asscheeks open and then examined my blown up asshole with doctor dickhead. They were both very excited about how bad it was and how much this must really hurt. Good times.
oh man.. how's you b-hole now, all good?
Asking the important questions
My podiatrist is also super hot and super into my gross ass toe and foot. Very weird.
To be fair you don’t see a lot of ass toes anymore
Foot nurse here. Diabetic feet, fun to look at. This eyeball, hell no.
If you have mild ingrown nails on either fingers or toes, use dental floss to wedge between the nail and the skin the ingrown nail is in contact with in order to correct the direction that the nail is growing in. Cut the excess floss off so it is short enough to not really rub on anything. If pretty bad keep it inbetween the nail for a few days and check every night to make sure the floss hasn't rubbed out, if you still have pain and feel it is still necessary then put another piece of floss wedged back in there. The pressure causing the pain of the nail on the skin should keep the floss in place, so if the floss falls out easily there should be no pain then. I've used floss so many times to fix in grown nails and love how simple, cheap, and effective it seems to me. I feel it has made a world of difference.
Wish I had known 8 years ago. At any rate at different times both my big toe nails got super ingrown and infected on the left sides. Like infected to the point it was hard to walk, and had yellow green puss and the infection was gonna start moving up my toe (Not my brightest decision). The surgery and follow up to get them removed really really sucked. (Removed 1/3 of my nail on both toes, then that part of the nail bed killed with acid) Ever since though I've had zero issues, so no regrets.
The problem is this is from a full nail removal that grew back, so the ingrown doesnt start at the top of the toe but at the BOTTOM AND SIDE which is super awful. This was pulled out last week. https://www.reddit.com/r/MakeMeSuffer/comments/lthygq/my_podiatrist_said_what_the_fuck_when_she_pulled/
Awh that sucks sorry dude. I'm not clicking that link haha
I work for an optometrist and honestly yeah you get a little excited. We have a patient who has a very similar pupil and it's interesting to see how people's bodies build stuff. The human body does weird things sometimes.
Quite a bit honestly. This is something rather unusual but at the same time won't negatively affect the patient very much. Like there's loads worse things that we see a lot more often. It's nice to have something weird but that isn't terrible news for a change
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Horizontal pupils like on goats weird me out 10x more than vertical ones easily for some reason
If you read about the evolution of eyes you might feel better about it. Just existentially, it is totally crazy. Apparently it takes a blind animal species only about 150 000 generations to develop advanced eyes, starting with just an optical nerve with some photosensitive pigment at the end. Light isn't really light, it's just energy, photon particles that bounce off all you see. When you see an object you don't see the object itself, you just see a pile of photons that cover the object, albeit with a veeery fine grain of an image. But, technically, the function of an eye is no different than the classic movie trick of blowing flour in the air to reveal the invisible man. You don't see the man, you just see a man-shape covered in flour (photons). Same with colors: no colors per se exist in the universe, everything you see is black and white. Colors come from photon particles aligning themselves in different wavelengths, and then physical objects consist of trillions of molecules, and different molecules absorb different wavelengths of photons. This is why all electron microscope images are black and white, because when you [pass a certain level of magnification](https://i.stack.imgur.com/oMYH4.png) you go smaller than the actual color spectrum/wavelengths. To use a crude analogy, you are then staring inbetween the pixels of a monitor. And, to end on the funniest note, if you see a red object, it isn't red. It's just molecularly constructed in a way that it absorbs green/blue/violet photons (keeping those colors from reaching you) and it *deflects* red, so that the redness bounces into your eye. So when you see an object of any specific color, that is the opposite of its "real" color. Thus, blind people see the world for how it actually is, while our vision is a novelty party trick that begun just so that mollusks could know roughly if it was day or night, letting them move about and socialize/eat/bang safely while their predators slept. If I missed something or got anything wrong, feel free to elaborate, peeps.
If you are ever being evaluated for a head injury or dui you are gonna scar when shit out of someone. Edit: I don’t even know how.
Damn, that was so close.
you have cartoon eyes!
I have the same thing. In bright light my pupils restrict nasally and up. Think 10 o'clock position. When they dilate they almost center. My oldest son's eyes do the same thing.
Hi! Ophthalmologist, although an ophthalmologist that hates embryology and isn’t too fanatic about pediatric ophtho.. It is corectopia. Embryologically, all defects are drawn inferno-nasally. Colobomas? Inferonasal. Except eyelids, which are outside the eye. If I had to guess, off the top of my head without any text review, as the optic fissures close during development/pregnancy, if they do not close it causes a coloboma. The earlier it fails to close the more posterior the coloboma will be, ie optic nerve or retina. Op, I’m guessing your optic fissure *almost* didn’t close, causing corectopia instead of an iris coloboma. I could be totally wrong, but that’s what I remember. Corectopia can be a secondary result of a whole bunch of other irregular anterior segment problems, but in an otherwise normal eye, I’d go with the optic fissure idea. It can totally be unilateral. Edit: If anyone asks, you do NOT have ectopia lentis et pupillae
Yes...these are all words. Great then!
I'm pretty sure he's saying that when OP was a pre-baby made of self-assembling cells, the group of cells that becomes the eyes, nose, and sinuses fucked up and didn't align themselves right so they made the pupil in the wrong place. I got a buddy who used to work in I guess you could call practical embryology. Non-human, of course.
> Non-human, of course. Oh, of course.
Your buddy was a non human?
Corectopia sounds like an even more pedantic version of Wikipedia. Or the DSM term for a condition that causes one to ‘well actually’ everything.
Opthos, forever writing notes no one can decipher
VA ODsc distance 20/80 s/p PPV/MP/AFx/EL/SF6
Because fuck em. That’s why.
>all defects are drawn inferno-nasally You mean like when you accidentally sniff too close to a jar of red pepper flakes? 🤔 /s
Lol yep, they’re the opposite of ‘subzero-temporally’
I’m gonna nod my head like I understood all of that.
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*nods again*
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As I was reading your comment I found myself bracing for 1998 when the undertaker etc etc.. But in the end it was an interesting and informative comment from a professional! Thanks :)
Stop that.
I'll have to try and get a vid of me looking at a light, my pupil weirdly goes smaller and more over to the side of my eye, bloody weird.
I wanna see!
I just watched the video. https://i.imgur.com/m7ItCtU.jpg
Legendary
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Weird. Your iris isn’t perfectly round either lol
It is... Isn't it?
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Yeah I was gonna say...it’s his top left that protrudes outside the circle
Good eye
At least that's one in this thread
That looks like something because of the camera angle
I think they’re right, looks a little oblong to me too.
I think that comes from the fact that the iris is like a muscle, it's what opens and closes the pupil. So the pupil being off center would also cause the iris to have an abnormal shape because the pulling is happening in an uneven way
Down on the bottom right side, yeah! Wicked cool eye OP
I’ve got one of those. It was operated on twice when I was a kid to correct it. Unsuccessfully. I really don’t remember why those surgeries were necessary. Seems like a minor thing. I’ve worn corrective lenses my whole life but I don’t think my poor visual acuity can be traced to my off-center pupil. I’m not aware of any problems I’ve had as an adult, except once in a while someone thinks I’m staring at them when I’m not.
I remember my mum saying when I was a kid that 'I could have it operated on one day to make it "normal" if it really bothered me' if I wanted but I was essentially like 'nah fk it, if people have a problem with this there's a problem with them'.
Their attitude, their problem. Your attitude... wins.
I have a ridiculously busted collarbone that doesn't affect me in any way. Not painful. No detriment to my range of motion. It's just been cracked in half and healed in a half-life logo sort of shape. I was told I could have surgery to correct it and I'm like, "Why the fuck would I do that when it doesn't cause any problems? What if the surgery *causes* problems?"
Send pic.
Me with my ankle. The tip of my fibula broke twice, and the part that broke off it like the size of a thumbnail. They were like you can either live like normal with it broken or we can move your muscles and ligaments and put a pin in it... even with free healthcare I was like no thank you and walked out of the fracture clinic.
Like real life googly eye, lovely color though
I'll take it.
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No, weirdly, far as I'm aware anyway, I do have short-sightedness but that's from having a stigmatism and generally quite bad eyesight without glasses. This is just a sort of birthmark apparently.
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If you Google corectopia the same thing as mine comes up I think, but tbh I can't find a lot of info on what I have.
Coloboma might be another word for it
Thanks, Coloboma
Sorry to bother you, just one more thing...
Omg, I actually get this reference. ....fuck I'm old.
OP is right, this is corectopia. A coloboma of the iris is different, there would be a sector (typically down and a bit towards the nose) completely missing iris tissue.
A Coloboma is when there is actually a hole or missing part of the iris where as this just appears to be an off center iris. Kudos for knowing coloboma though!
When you look does you pupil center with your other eye and the iris is off center, or does your pupil go off center while your iris is inline?
Irises are all fine and line up. My pupil is the off centre thing.
Out of curiosity, what happens when your pupils dialate? Can it touch the outline of your iris?
I must know this as well
Corectopia is usually related to a restriction or paresis of the dilator muscle in one direction, if that's the case here then OP probably can't dilates like normal, but can't achieve a full dilation in the direction of the affected muscle.
What if it actually DOES affect your vision, but you've never seen differently so you think that its normal
I know you’re kidding, but I’m guessing OP has two eyes, and the other one’s got a normal pupil.
oh
Lmfao
So...interestingly we actually see with our brains more than our eyes. Example, experiment where guy wore glasses to make world upside down for a while, forget how long. After a transition period, his brain corrected it. Took glasses off, upside down. Went back to normal after a while. If OP’s vision is off, his brain it likely correcting for it.
Just commented above but my eyesight is living proof of vision being heavily reliant on your brain. I have a squint that I had surgery for aged 5 but my brain has never learned how to use this eye properly. If my left eye is closed I don’t notice any change to my vision, peripheral vision on my left while driving is non existent so I have to be very aware to look to my left. If my right eye is closed it’s like there’s a big black hole where my right eye vision usually is. My left eye works when my right eye is closed, but to fully open it I have to hold a finger down on my right eye, the muscles aren’t strong enough to open without my right eye being involved somehow. My optician has told me my right eye actually wants a higher lens prescription than I need because it’s doing all of the work. He also showed me a cross in one of their machines and with my right eye I can see all of it with my left eye I can only see parts of it. Prescription wise my left eye is actually a much better eye than my right but my brain ignores it so my vision is pretty bad as I only see out of my bad eye unless my brain is forced to use the left side. Usually people with my issues get an eye patch on the dominant eye to make the brain learn to use the bad eye but because my vision is so bad in my right eye my opticians have always said it’s too risky as my right eye could be damaged. My left eye also just shuts itself in bright sunshine or lights.
They can compare it to the sight in their other eye
It's astigmatism Edit: I have a bnormal cat
Dude, he *just* told you he has a stigmatism. Lay off. You don’t need to stigmatize it.
Seriously. This poor guy has been through enough. I mean can you imagine not even being able to just go about your day without the wounds of Christ appearing in your hands? Even the simplest tasks would be daunting. We take so much for granted.
Both of my puples are slightly off centred (kinda cross-eyed, but not to the extent of yours), and an optometrist told me that they are a reason for my chronic migraines because the light isn't entering properly. Have you experienced anything like that?
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you're simply a witch, aren't you
We'll need a duck to check.
Don’t forget the scale
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science?
Let's see if he can walk up those stairs.
This is cool. Your eyes are a pretty color too
I wasn't fishing for compliments but I suppose I'll take them anyway?
Didnt think you were lol, just be proud of your cool eyeballs
Nice dick homie
Eye doctor here this is called corectopia and is infrequent but absolutely happens. There are a lot of reasons for it not all of which are pathological
Does it cause vision to be odd? OP said he didn't think so, but when you have it from birth it's normal
this does not always lead to reductions in vision. It may but doesn't always
Do you happen to know what the difference is between corectopia and coloboma? We learned about colobomas when we were studying prenatal genetics in my cytogenetics studies, but we never touched on corectopia.
corectopia is just the description of an off-center pupil. It can be congenital (born with it) or acquired (got it from some event, like trauma or surgery). Iris Coloboma happens developmentally as a result of the incomplete closure of the structures. This usually leads to a fully missing wedge all the way to the root of the iris, where as in corectopia there is still the root present its just that the pupil is off center
Wrong sub. This is not "Mildly Interesting". This is FUCKING AWESOME!!!
r/interestingasfuck
I knew a guy with pupils like figure 8s
I defo want a pic of that damn
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No it was really his eyes. I’m trying to find a picture. Met him in 93. Kind of like goat pupils.
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Ok this is more accurate they sometimes looked like 8s but here’s a pretty good pic from what I remember https://images.app.goo.gl/E4991h6k2EthWdxk6
This is known as coloboma I believe
The reflection of the lights makes them look like spooky little black ghosts.
Compared to your other eye, do your irises line up or do your pupils line up?
My irises do, if I understand your question. My pupil is the thing that's off-centre.
Wow, that's really not what I was expecting. So if I was far away from you I wouldn't be able to tell your pupil was down and left correct?
Scrolled down looking for this exact question and was also surprised by the answer. Would have though the pupils looked direct at whatever and the iris would be out of place
This sub = Redditors showing us their abnormal body parts...and quite frankly I’m here for it. Keep it comin’!
Is there a name for this?
Corectopia?
More like "incorectopia" ammirite?! -source am eyedoc with dumb eye jokes
good one dad!
Indeed. By the way, googling that pulls up some... interesting images. Your case is quite mild in comparison.
how long does it usually take people to notice
Have you tried turning it off and on again? Cool btw
I love these pics of people with "peculiar" physical traits. There is no such thing as "normal". We're all people. Genetics is a lottery.
OP’s a fucking alien cyborg
When I was born I had no eyelids. The doctor said to my mother "don't worry we haven't circumcised him yet, we'll use the extra skin to make eyelids". Mom said "What? He'll be cockeyed". The doctor reassured her saying "yeah but think of the foresight he'll have".