How bad is the injury, if you get poked in the eye slightly?

I am just curious, to hear the answer. I never experienced this injury before, but I've heard other people have.

It depends what you get poked with, how hard, and where. I took a thumb-nail in the eye many years ago early one summer in a swimming pool in Toronto. It did not puncture the eyeball, but it peeled back part of the white area. I received a stitch in the eyeball, (that was an experience in itself) and had to wear a patch, and stay out of the water for the whole summer. Altogether, it was a painful, frightening, and uncomfortable experience.

It's not that bad, my friend poked me in the eye when he pointed at an oncoming ambulance that was speeding along. Then i slapped him.

My uncle stabbed himself in the eye with a screwdriver at work once and all they did was clean it really good and gave him drops to keep it clean and it healed up.

Well I guess it would depend on what the eye was poked with.

This depends on the object the eye is poked with. If the poke is with a sharp object, it could cause a corneal abrasion which could be mildly to extremely painful. I had a bad one caused by a finger nail. I was in extreme pain for a day and it didn't heal properly so I had 2 mild recurrences. The treatment was prophylactic antibiotics. Just hope it never happens to you!

it's only bad if it's a sharp stick!