Just squirted some ripe banana (TFA) flavoring into my right eyeball while making a batch of juice. Holy fuck you guys. The pain. The pain was unreal. I honestly thought I might go blind in my right eye until I ran my eye under a faucet for about 15 min and the pain STILL didn't go away for hours. I have been mixing juice for years, 1000's of batches for friends and whatnot and never had this happen. It'll get you when you least expect it.
So please, use safety glasses while mixing juice. It just takes 1 drop to ruin your day. That ripe banana squirt ranks in my top 5 most sharp painful, experiences of my life. And I've had welding accidents and stuff like that that really tore my arm up.
I did not realize how eyes + flavoring chemicals do not fucking mix. Horrid, horrid experience. I have been using glasses ever since as a precaution and I IMPLORE you to do the same.
I can only imagine how painful menthol or koolada would feel, or nic concentrate. Don't fuck around guys, these are concentrated chemicals and you really do need to take some precautions here. Ripe banana is known to dissolve PET PLASTIC for fucks sake, imagine that on your eyeballs.
Got juice in my eye once due to a difficult bottle - stung for a while, but the most disappointing part was where I failed to develop any discernible super powers
Same. I managed to brush off some ethyl maltol one Time, but the ripe banana is strong shit. Ya know, like 2% will make a bit impact on the flavor of your juice, so it's very intense stuff.
ripe banana is no joke, I only use 1% tops in my mixes
I prefer about 2-3% with 7% banana cream and some Bavarian cream thrown in. Maybe some caramel and vanilla bean thrown in. I shan't reveal my secret recipe, but my 'nanner puddin' e juice is a riot around here and my friends love the banana profile I've developed.
I'll give you a hint though. Vape wizard at 1% with ripe banana steeps so damn well. Order some vape wizard from vape wild, it can really add to certain recipes and bring those desirable notes out of the mix.
oh god. flavorings bind to liquid like gum to shoes... The tear production that your eye would start due to a foreign substance being introduced would just fuel its fire and spread it across the entire eye.
I never considered that. Ach. Good point. wearing safety glasses from now on.
Do it man. It seriously felt like someone dripped molten metal into my eye. And I've had molten metal on my skin. So I have a bit of perspective on this. I just want to remind everyone to use eye protection. Whenever you see a few beads of chemical spray on your glasses, you will thank the e juice gods that you didn't get rekt like me.
This comment reminds me of a nice little experience. I wear glasses to see, also work in a kitchen. I had a bad fryer mishap that ended up with oil on my face, eyebrow, and my glasses had oil on them too. Not molten metal(like 350°F oil) but glad I didn't have to find out what that shits like in my eyes. Praise the oil gods.
Never thought of these concentrates on the eye though, sound brutal. Hope the pain is gone by now
I guess I'm safe since I always wear glasses lol. This is a good tip though, and eye safety is often overlooked I'd say.
Good for you Dude. I fucking underestimated the chemicals involved in e juice. Keep that habit up lol!
I'm just glad I'm still able to see. I know multiple colleagues who underestimated the need for eye protection and lodged bits of metal splinters into their eye from using improper protection using wire grinders during welding.
This experience reinforced my understanding of eye protection. Never again will I solder copper joints, or do anything that calls for eye protection without wearing glasses.
Your eyes are sacred orbs of receiving light. They are amazing objects, and they are very vulnerable. Protect them like they are your newborn children. They are precious. Lmao
Your normal prescription glasses aren't enough though. You need real lab safety glasses that really protect your eyes from spills.
Thank god it wasn't nicotine.
Thank you for the warning! I wear glasses every day, and when people ask me why I don't get lasik, I always wonder why anyone feels comfortable with nothing between their eyes and the world.
Fyi nicotine hurts worse than sulfuric acid.
Can confirm - 100mg PG, not fun, I even have very desensitized corneas from a decade of hard contact lenses so I can cut my eye and not feel it but I sure felt this one! Was just about to head over to the emergency dept but the pain didn't last long. I have a lot of problems with my eyes so I thought this was going to send me blind.
I wonder if it's more the PG or the nicotine reacting with the eye fluids. Either way, they are no Bueno when it comes to eyes. Lol
Wow man hope you're ok. I'll be wearing glasses from now on. So how did you manage to do that? How did it splash into your eye?
I was mixing a 120 ml batch of banana pudding. The last flavor I added was going to be the ripe Nana flavor. I have a plastic bottle of it and I was just squeezing the air out so I could raise it up to the syringe and that's when something made it squirt into my eye, either the pipette or who knows. All I know is, it hit my eye, and it really fucking hurt. Big time. My vision is 100% back to normal now though but the pain was unreal. My dog was freaking out, worried as hell lol.
My roommate was shaking my nic bottle for me after pulling it out of the fridge. Apparently there was a little bit of nic in the frost on the outside of the bottle so when it melted, he managed to get it in his eye. Its my fault for not cleaning off the bottle well enough, but he probably shouldn't have been laying down shaking the bottle over his face.... He looked like he had pink eye for a day.
Coming from a field of solvent usage, glasses don't do shit. Get a face shield if you really worried.
Once I got a drop of crazy glue fly right into my left eyeball, I ended up somewhat fine after months of putting eyedrops every few hours but that prompted me to go to an optometrist and finally get glasses. So now when I see people just being themselves, looking at stuff with their bare eyes, I'm thinking these people are crazy!
What happened OP?
12 hours later, I'm totally fine. But it was very very painful and I feel that exposing my corneas to such chemicals multiple times would alter my eyesight. Wearing goggles/faceshield from now on!