Wellness

[2blonde]

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.

[Gracies Mom]

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!!!

[Ane1Care]

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.

[Ane1Care]

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. 😂

[Scooby Doo]

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.

[fortune]

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@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!

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@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.

[Ane1Care]

**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.