New gel could make eye injections Pain-Free

Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.

Inclusion Criteria: * Able to understand and voluntarily provide written informed consent prior to initiation of any study-specific procedures * Male or female, age ≥ 18 years * Scheduled to undergo unilateral, uncomplicated intravitreal injection of an FDA-approved, non-biosimilar anti-VEGF agent in the study eye * Diagnosis requiring anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) treatment, including macular edema (cystoid or diabetic), retinal vein occlusion, diabetic retinopathy, or neovascular age-related macular degeneration * At least three prior intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in the study eye * Fewer than 13 intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in the study eye within the last 365 days * Willing and able to comply with study procedures and follow-up assessments Exclusion Criteria: * Scheduled to undergo simultaneous bilateral intravitreal injection * Pre-existing eye pain in the study eye * Fewer than three prior intravitreal anti-VEGF injections in the study eye within 365 days prior to enrollment * Mental disability or cognitive impairment that prevents reliable pain assessment * Prisoner * Pregnant or breastfeeding * Woman of childbearing potential not using an acceptable method of contraception * Inability to comply with study procedures or follow-up assessments * Known sensitivity or allergy to any study medications or related drug classes * History of resistance to local anesthetics * History of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome * Participation in another investigational drug or device study within 30 days prior to screening (unless previously randomized to a control group receiving Eylea, Eylea HD, Lucentis, or Vabysmo) * Use of pain medication, opioids, analgesics, or NSAIDs (any route) within 24 hours prior to Visit 1 * Clinically significant systemic disease or condition that, in the Investigator's judgment, may compromise safety or study integrity * Cataract extraction, intraocular surgery, or extraocular surgery within 60 days prior to enrollment that may affect ocular pain * History of autoimmune disease, graft-versus-host disease, fibromyalgia, uveitis, neurotrophic corneal disease, keratitis or corneal ulceration, uncontrolled glaucoma, or herpetic ocular disease * History of endophthalmitis or ocular trauma within 3 months prior to enrollment * Pre-existing subconjunctival hemorrhage or bulbar conjunctival hyperemia * Chronic ocular pain rated moderate to severe within 1 week prior to Visit 1 * Active bacterial or viral infection in either eye