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Gs sustsined eye injury some months ago.
Dr. found nothing wrong with eye.
Yesterday, eye was fine. He slept a couple of hours & woke up with outrageous pain.
He has a very high pain threshold, once went through molar root canal without anesthesia.
Please help?
Ty!
On edit: eye began to feel better aboit 3 hrs after he got out of bed. Call in to dr. No clue why this keeps happening. Ty all so much!
Scrivener7
(60,080 posts)SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)pandr32
(14,307 posts)Sending positive vibes.
Ocelot II
(131,252 posts)Does he wear contact lenses, or does he have dry eyes? I've had a corneal abrasion from contact lenses and it was extremely painful; also dry eyes can cause a lot of pain, or could be a flare-up from the old injury. Obviously he needs to see an ophthalmologist asap, hope he's OK soon!
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)Ty!
LoisB
(13,493 posts)tears some time back? Manufactured in India if I remember correctly.
Quakerfriend
(5,882 posts)- Hope you have emergency eye care services nearby. Please, let us know how it goes.
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)hlthe2b
(114,716 posts)SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)Maybe muscles irritated from REM?
Although, dr. said muscles tested perfect. Slight astigmatism, so I got him glasses with Transition lenses.
I will call eye dr. again today.
Ty
hlthe2b
(114,716 posts)(after appropriately numbing the eye with proparacaine)... It sounds like he has dry eye syndrome, so that does put him at special risk of surface corneal injury. Those who have ever worn HARD contact lenses have undoubtedly experienced that intense pain, and even though he doesn't, these surface injuries can occur for a lot of other reasons, including foreign bodies, styes, etc.
So, while it could certainly be something else, I would think that they would want to rule this out. Even ER docs would/should do the evaluation above for acute pain, no matter how much they want to refer to ophthalmologists.
Good luck!
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)no_hypocrisy
(55,390 posts)Best of all outcomes to you both.
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)Diamond_Dog
(41,071 posts)Its scary to wake up in outrageous pain! Hope he can be seen ASAP!
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)jmbar2
(8,178 posts)Mystery pain is very scary. Sending healing vibes...
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)2naSalit
(103,817 posts)So, maybe a different doctor?
Could be something other than the eye itself..?
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,212 posts)Healing and peace
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)sheshe2
(98,471 posts)SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)JMCKUSICK
(6,623 posts)God knows you deserve better.
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)Poor guy.
Karadeniz
(24,763 posts)SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)MontanaMama
(24,752 posts)Sending all the good vibes your way. Please keep us posted?
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)I posted update in separate thread.
usonian
(26,596 posts)Please have them checked!
Some are dodgy and they are easily contaminated.
Otherwise, nothing but sympathetic feelings going out.
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)But this has bn ongoing before that.
usonian
(26,596 posts)They both contain only mineral oil and petrolatum to different percentages.
Check contents, anyway.
No chemicals otherwise. I use them every night to keep eyes moist.
And of course, all drops need to be kept sterile, even if that's not actually doable by humans.
HTH, even in a small way.
peacebuzzard
(5,888 posts)So sorry about this pain hope u heal quickly
SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)58Sunliner
(6,418 posts)SheltieLover
(81,738 posts)
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