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Irritated eye

Ane1Care — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:36:37 GMT

I've had sty's my whole life, literally...from infancy. So I know how they feel. Sunday I went to my rental storage building. Typically I get either pins and needles feeling, itching, and / or coughing. I have developed a sty a day or so after cleaning my building. On Monday my left eye started itching, like the onset of a sty. Wednesday I started sneezing, and occasionally coughing, as well as my eye getting more red, and watery. It's worse after waking up. I'm also sensitive to light.

It feels like a sty, but no lump yet. No discharge at all, just water. I feel like I'm getting a cold, sinus pressure, runny nose, tired. But with one itchy, irritated eye.

So, until I can get to the Optom, any idea what it is? Warm compresses and opening my eye in the shower to rinse it help. It also helps to pull my upper eyelid away from my eye....which helps with a sty, too. I've never had pink eye before. But from my understanding it's accompanied with mucus discharge.

TIA!

Re: Irritated eye

Laura14 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:52:46 GMT

To me, it sounds like allergies. You may have gotten an irritant in that one eye and the histamine is kicking.

I used a lot of eye drops, natural not the Visine kind, when I had a really bad dry eye a few months ago. It worked well until I got help.

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Laura14 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:57:13 GMT

OH WAIT!

I just re-read the part about rinsing your eye in the shower. Don't do that!! Water and your eye have different pHs. You'll irritate the heck out of it if you keep that up. Use saline solution like the contact people do which is balanced to the eye's pH or natural eye drops.

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Ane1Care — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:56:24 GMT

Also, as I'm trying to drift off, postnasal drip starts in. And I feel like I need to blow my nose, but just a tiny bit of clear comes out, which is from the watery eyes. I always have CDE (chronic dry eye, always have) so the water is irrating just being there. Arrgh. I think it's from mold in my rental storage building, but one eye? I don't recall absentmindedly touching my eye, though it is possible.

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software — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:58:05 GMT

@Ane1Care wrote:
I've had sty's my whole life, literally...from infancy. So I know how they feel. Sunday I went to my rental storage building. Typically I get either pins and needles feeling, itching, and / or coughing. I have developed a sty a day or so after cleaning my building. On Monday my left eye started itching, like the onset of a sty. Wednesday I started sneezing, and occasionally coughing, as well as my eye getting more red, and watery. It's worse after waking up. I'm also sensitive to light.

It feels like a sty, but no lump yet. No discharge at all, just water. I feel like I'm getting a cold, sinus pressure, runny nose, tired. But with one itchy, irritated eye.

So, until I can get to the Optom, any idea what it is? Warm compresses and opening my eye in the shower to rinse it help. It also helps to pull my upper eyelid away from my eye....which helps with a sty, too. I've never had pink eye before. But from my understanding it's accompanied with mucus discharge.

TIA!

Warm compress, gentle pressure

Re: Irritated eye

Laura14 — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 19:58:40 GMT

That's what I was thinking. I think you have an irritant that got into your one eye really good somehow. Just keep rinsing it with saline or drops to keep comfortable until the doctor can tell you for sure.

Re: Irritated eye

alicedee — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:04:15 GMT

It it's pink eye, your eye will probably be stuck shut and goopy when you wake up in the morning. I only had it once as an adult...and didn't realize what it was for a few days. Rubbed my eye so much...by the time I got to the doctor I had scratched my cornea. Definitely get it checked out by your doctor or dermatologist.

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Ane1Care — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:18:12 GMT

Thank you! I should explain, I didn't open my eye in the direct stream. After letting the warm stream "hit" my closed eye, I step back and slowly open my eye, blinking. It doesn't burn or anything, just makes my nose water. What I find odd, I wear glasses, have since I was 10, and when the sheet of water is on my eye, I can clearly see. As if I have a contact in. 🤔 I guess I should stop opening. Haha! It feels irritated, like a sty. I have social anxiety, and an irrational fear doctors. So I put off going. I know, it's stupid. But panic attacks in the lobby suck, making me feel worse. I need house call doctors to become a thing again. Hahaha! 😂

Re: Irritated eye

itsmagic — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:19:47 GMT

You might have gotten a small particle of something in your eye. I had that happen once about 20 years ago while camping and didn't even know I had gotten something in my eye and could see nothing in it. But my eye was watering like crazy. I went to the emergency room near the campgrounds and they found nothing. My eye still bothered me after I returned home and I ended up going to my doctor. They were the ones who found a small particle in my eye.

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makena — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:20:52 GMT

It's funny that I came across this because I have a reocurring thing going on with my lower eyelid on the inside. Last March it began hurting, not itchy or runny but puffy underneath the eye and looks black and blue (slightly dark color). I went to two different eye doctors who didn't really know what it was. There was nothing there expect redness and a white center. Both said a warm compress and gave me a prescription for an ointment. I thought that odd because they didn't know what it was. Anyway, I did everything they said for almost two months and it finally went away. Now it's back over a year later and in the same spot.

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2blonde — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:22:06 GMT

Maybe you actually are getting a cold. Allergies can act that way too......it's hard to tell the difference sometimes except that allergies tend to wax and wane, where a cold stays with you for a time.

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Gracies Mom — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:29:53 GMT

My advice is to go to an eye doctor!! My husband, just two days ago, rubbed his eye after coming back from walking our dog--suddenly his eye became blood red, itchy and swollen.Had to take him to Urgent Care--he had a corneal abrasion!! He must've had something teeny tiny in his eye and rubbing it injured his cornea. He's using antibiotic eye drops and antihistimine eye drops---his eye is much better today--no more swelling or redness. It was scary because he also had the white of his eye bubble up---I never saw that before--turns out it was the thin clear membrane that covers the sclera--the white part of the eye--when it does that, it means the eye is injured. Don't fool around with your eye--EVER!!!

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Ane1Care — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:41:10 GMT

I never rub my eyes. EVER. I fuss at family when they do, with an itch or waking up. If it's itchy I'll wash my hands and barley touch the tips of the lashes to wiggle them. I warn them about corneal abrasion's. I grew up using an eye cup to wash my eye if a lash or hair had gotten in it. Which is why I was opening it in the shower and letting the water blink out.

My gut says sty. But I've never had an upper in the inner corner. I've had two bad ones on the top that volcanoed through the top of my lid. While it looked bad, and left a scar, they were much easier to deal with since they weren't in the eye area.

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Ane1Care — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 20:54:10 GMT

The upper dip on my left eye is the scar from the two uppers that happened in the same spot a year apart. The lump on my right eye is from a sty that never developed, but left a lump. My optom wasn't concerned about it, and it doesn't bother me. I can't tell it's there at all. Below, I was in the shadow my my phone from the vanity lights, it just looks bloodshot. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yeah, my brows are fluffy, but I'm not trying to snag anyone, why torture myself. 😂

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Scooby Doo — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 21:23:07 GMT

My DD has thyroid issues, which is an autoimmune disease. She's been getting frequent stys and the Dr. says is part of the autoimmune problem. She basically is allergic to her own body. Just about anything sets off an allergic reaction. You might need a GP along with an eye Dr.

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fortune — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 22:04:29 GMT

@Ane1Care wrote:
I've had sty's my whole life, literally...from infancy. So I know how they feel. Sunday I went to my rental storage building. Typically I get either pins and needles feeling, itching, and / or coughing. I have developed a sty a day or so after cleaning my building. On Monday my left eye started itching, like the onset of a sty. Wednesday I started sneezing, and occasionally coughing, as well as my eye getting more red, and watery. It's worse after waking up. I'm also sensitive to light.

It feels like a sty, but no lump yet. No discharge at all, just water. I feel like I'm getting a cold, sinus pressure, runny nose, tired. But with one itchy, irritated eye.

So, until I can get to the Optom, any idea what it is? Warm compresses and opening my eye in the shower to rinse it help. It also helps to pull my upper eyelid away from my eye....which helps with a sty, too. I've never had pink eye before. But from my understanding it's accompanied with mucus discharge.

TIA!

@Ane1Care

I think you have problems because of chronic dry eye. Google it and see how to treat it before seeing your eye doctor. You should be on a medication for the dry eye condition.

Re: Irritated eye

Ane1Care — Fri, 21 Jul 2017 21:54:24 GMT

**Update**

Went to an optom just now. The one I had seen since I was 10 is so far away, and he has been getting very cocky in the past decade....wanting to flirt with one particular secretary, though both are very married, than to want to deal with the patients, or talking about me and my issues to her as if I weren't there--why she needs to know some of the things we were discussing is beyond me, she's only a secretary nothing more, I felt completely judged there, as if I were a bum because I didn't dress fancy, and when I bought a pair of $400 glasses from him, and the lenses gave me a fishbowl effect, he was snotty about it, and wanted be to exchange the glasses with him, which would've been 2-4 months of more waiting to send them off, instead of just issuing a refund so I could go elsewhere. I just think he's getting tired of being an optom, and saying / doing the same thing / job he as had since he was 24...now 49, and maybe a little bit of a mid-life crisis, too. Before then he was awesome, and the reason I stayed for so long his patient. I actually looked forward to my 18 month exam, which I never missed. Oh, well. 25 years is a long run with anything, especially doctors.

Anyhoo, I went to a new lady. Like night and day. I assumed, stupidly, that other optoms were like him. So I put it off. Turns out, I have an allergic reaction to something. Maybe dust or a mold spore got into my eye and my immune system went haywire, and and there may be a slight abrasion. She put dye on my eye to check for an ulcer, thankfully, it's just a small scratch. With my scars and history of stys it could've led to that, and the reaction just aggravated it.

I have drops, and antibiotics to take for the next two weeks. And I go back for a checkup next week to check on progress. Sigh, 😔. I hope, and pray it does. Then once everything is back in order, I'll go back for an actual exam, and new Rx glasses. What I found interesting, and claiming to hear, the optom, the pharmacist, and the glasses attendant talked about having the same thing happen to them, and taking the same meds. So I know it's a common thing. It was like putting your foot out of a hot bed; a wash of claiming comfort.