[Rapunzel]

Everything was fine yesterday. I woke up at 3:30 a.m. and my left eye really hurt - enough to wake me up. I got up and took out my contact lenses (I have the kind you can leave in for 2 weeks at a time, and usually have no problems with them other than a little bit of dryness). I was able to go to sleep, but when I woke up this morning it still hurt, even worse. Light hurts. I'm just starting to be able to keep my other eye open, but it's causing painful tension in my neck and my head. I probably just scratched or rubbed my eye in my sleep, I guess, but I can't function this way. My tolerance for pain is normally very high, but this is like an 8 or 9 on the pain scale, and percocet didn't help at all. I have to to to work in a few hours, and have work to do on the computer here in the mean time. Any ideas? I doubt that if I went to a doctor they would even care, or have anything they could do.

Help!

Rap

[tranquility]

Rap -

It could be so many things. Do you suffer from migraines? I get pains like that but they don't consistently last like yours. You could have scratched it but I think you would know it.

You could try taking some motrin (if that's okay for you) and putting a warm compress on it to see if it helps.

If not, you should go to the doc. Hope you feel better!

Tranquility

[Rapunzel]

Thanks. I had a migraine maybe once in my life, and I don't think it was typical so not sure it was actually a migraine. But my mother and my sister get them a lot. I understand stress can contrubute, and I've been under considerable stress at work for the past month. It should be better next week. That's something I hadn't thought of as a factor in this.

I don't typically have allergies, but my husband keeps telling me that this is just like his allergy symptoms too, and my family has a lot of allergies. I also have had stuffiness and something like cold symptoms since last night. The percocet finally kicked in, and I felt my head clear out all of a sudden, but now I'm dizzy. The eye feels almost tolerable but it still hurts.

I think this could be stress-related, and might have something to do with migraine or allergy or something. I probably shouldn't take anything else until the percocet wears off.

I held an ice cube on my eye for a while too. Maybe I should try something warm.

[InACorner]

it could be a sti ....i dont know how to spell it...but i wake up with my eye swollen and alittle red and very painful....a sti is something caught (a small granule of something) and over the night your eye tries to protect itself from the outsider (almost like an oyster making a pearl) i suggest you take luke warm water tip your eye upward and try and get some warm water inside your eye....also put your face in the sink and cup your hand with water and submerge your eye in your cupped hand and keep blinking...its the only way it will get out.....you know its a sti if your eye is swollen.....if its not swollen its probably from a headache

[Rapunzel]

No swelling, and it felt like there was a big boulder lodged in there, but I haven't been able to find anything. It's a little better now and I'm going to try to see if I can get around enough to go to work. I should be there already.

[bebop]

I think you should see an opthomolgist (sp) asap hon

[okiedokie]

Yep, see an eye doctor. In the meantime, you could buy a patch OTC so your eyelid quits rubbing up and down on your eyeball. If it's scratched, it's what the doc will do for ya.
Take care,
Okie

[January]

((((((((( Rap ))))))))))

Please go be seen. You need to do it. Your eyes are too precious to take a chance.

Hugs,

Jan

[wanttoheal]

Please go to the dr. It could be an infection...

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[Rapunzel]

Thanks, all of you. Even though it hurt really bad yesterday (and I was worried that it would never stop, or get worse), I did make it to work and it didn't bother me too much there (except when the clients opened all the windows in the van, and blew air at me with paper fans - it was hot and they were trying to be nice and cool everyone off).

Today it's okay. I don't know for sure what was wrong with it, but it's down to just being slightly irritable. I think I'll avoid contact lenses today, but it will probably be good enough to wear them by tomorrow.

[(JD)]

Rap, do you have "floaters" in your eye? (The normally little black specks that float around inside the eye.) I would see an opthamologist, or at least put it on your list to do. Severe pain in the eye needs to be diagnosed, whether an opthamolgic migraine, or retina detachment...

just my POV

TC!

[Rapunzel]

I'm due to renew my prescription for contacts anyway. I'll bring it up then and see if they think it's significant. I don't think I have floaters - do you mean like sunspots, from looking at light (like the sun) that burns the retina? I've had stuff like that temporarily, but not currently. I think that I've always been pretty light sensitive though, and I usually need sunglasses to drive if the sun is up.

[Christine329]

does it hurt when you move your eye?

[January]

I totally agree with Sky. Your eyes are much to precious to chance damage to them.

Hugs,

Jan

<font color="#000088">I agree you should definately be seen by your Doctor, preferably your eye Doc! It could be a sinus infection,and they can get pretty bad! </font>

[Nate2011]

Sometimes when your eye dries out from wearing your contacts too long your contact will latch onto a small layer that covers your, well when the contact dries out it can tear that small layer off sometimes which will cause light sensitivity, redness, and some pain too. If this happens all you can really do is wait for it to heal, you can go to the optometrist, but all they are going to do is give you an eye drop that relieves some of the pain and takes away the redness, other then that all you can do is wait for it to heal really I would suggest trying to wear sunglasses as much as possible when this happens because at least even though it does not completely stop light from causing issues with your eye, at least it will help somewhat.