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[Ane1Care]

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!

[Laura14]

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.    

[Laura14]

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.  

[Ane1Care]

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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@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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Warm compress, gentle pressure

[Laura14]

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.  

[alicedee]

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.  

[Ane1Care]

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! 😂

[itsmagic]

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. 

[makena]

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.