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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
(58,172 posts)SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)pandr32
(13,749 posts)Sending positive vibes.
Ocelot II
(128,922 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
(76,350 posts)Ty!
LoisB
(12,297 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
(76,350 posts)hlthe2b
(112,710 posts)SheltieLover
(76,350 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
(112,710 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
(76,350 posts)no_hypocrisy
(54,175 posts)Best of all outcomes to you both.
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)Diamond_Dog
(39,707 posts)Its scary to wake up in outrageous pain! Hope he can be seen ASAP!
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)jmbar2
(7,568 posts)Mystery pain is very scary. Sending healing vibes...
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)2naSalit
(99,832 posts)So, maybe a different doctor?
Could be something other than the eye itself..?
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)bronxiteforever
(11,068 posts)Healing and peace
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)sheshe2
(95,699 posts)SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)JMCKUSICK
(5,005 posts)God knows you deserve better.
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)Poor guy.
Karadeniz
(24,721 posts)SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)MontanaMama
(24,609 posts)Sending all the good vibes your way. Please keep us posted?
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)I posted update in separate thread.
usonian
(23,400 posts)Please have them checked!
Some are dodgy and they are easily contaminated.
Otherwise, nothing but sympathetic feelings going out.
SheltieLover
(76,350 posts)But this has bn ongoing before that.
usonian
(23,400 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
(5,793 posts)So sorry about this pain hope u heal quickly