Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure
Alan Carr fears he’s losing his eyesight as he undergoes terrifying procedure
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Alan Carr has revealed details of a health scare which left him worried he might be losing his eyesight, suffering through a terrifying treatment that involved having a ‘spike’ driven into his eyeball. The comedian and TV personality, 48, has astigmatism – a condition that means that the eyeball isn’t round as it should be. Instead, it is shaped more like a rugby ball, causing blurred vision and sight loss.
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Alan’s scare came as he began experiencing a sense of pressure behind his eyes, leading to a fear that his eyesight may be worsening. And, as the Changing Ends star and creator visited Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, he underwent treatment to relieve some of that pressure.
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This involved what he described as having a ‘spike’ driven into his anesthetised eyeball. Speaking to comedian Grace Campbell, 31, on the latest episode of his podcast, Alan revealed all the gory details of the traumatic procedure. ‘I hate the glaucoma thing when they squirt the air in your eyes,’ he said on Life’s A Beach.
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He continued: ‘I had something wrong with my eyes in the cornea. I was so worried.’. Alan went on to say he practically had to be restrained as the doctor injected air into his eye to relieve some pressure. ‘He had to basically choke me because this air going into my eye was too much,’ Alan said.
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But worse was to come. ‘At Moorfields, they anaesthetised my eyeball, and then the spike came in onto the lens to see if it worked,’ he explained. ‘They said, “Just relax, Alan, and just concentrate on the spike going into your eye.” I’m like, excuse me? What? Oh good, the spike is coming closer. Relax!.
