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BTDT!
Bugs in the eye suck, and eyeball pain is a special hellish experience.
I had a skeeter make a kamikaze run into one of my eyes 2 years ago while I was at Scout camp with my son. It took me all of about 45 minutes to decide it was worth the 4 hour round trip to an ER to get it out.
The 18 y/o first-aid trained "nurse" at the camp offered to try to pull bug parts out from my eye with tweezers when flushing didn't resolve the issues. I politely declined. There was no way I was letting anyone without MD or DO after their name mess with my eyeball with anything hard and pointy. I would have preferred an ophthalmologist or optometrist, but the rural ER doc was my only option.
I have had a couple of similar experiences since with other foreign objects
FYI, they make ophthalmic Toradol, and it works wonders for the discomfort that lingers after the foreign object is removed. A lot of non-eye docs don't seem to know of it's existence, however. Tell them to look it up if they aren't familiar with it if you ever find yourself in similar circumstances again. One brand name is Acular.
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