Ugh, stupid eyeball.
Mar. 30th, 2010 12:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I don't know whether to scream or cry at this point. The way things are going, I'd better not cry.
I went to the eye doctor last week for my annual checkup. Everything was fine.
Yesterday afternoon my left eye, the one I have very little vision in, started hurting. I checked it out in the mirror, and the eyelid looked kind of red and puffy, so I put some basic rewetting drops in. Didn't help. Started putting hot compresses on it this morning, which didn't help much either. Now my eyelid's red, swollen, and painful. I can't tell if it's affecting my vision any, because I can pretty much only see out of the corner of that eye.
I'm pretty sure I know what this is. I had something similar back in the 90's, only it was much worse because it was in my good eye. So this scares me a little bit less than that did, but I'm still not having a great time.
I was laying on the couch this morning with a heat pack over my face for almost an hour before I decided enough was enough, and called the eye doctor. I hate to do it, because I was just there, but this is not going to go away on its own, and the pain is starting to really make me cranky.
Thankfully it was almost lunch when I called the doc's office, and the phone rang so many times in the front office that I think they finally had to pick it up in the back. This would explain why the person I talked to seemed to have it together anyway.
Really though, this is why I love my eye doctor's office. "What's your name and date of birth? And what's going on?" Pause. "Can you come in this afternoon?"
Yes, I can.
So, you know where I'll be at 3:15. And it's not that I don't want to go, it's just that I don't want to have to go.
I went to the eye doctor last week for my annual checkup. Everything was fine.
Yesterday afternoon my left eye, the one I have very little vision in, started hurting. I checked it out in the mirror, and the eyelid looked kind of red and puffy, so I put some basic rewetting drops in. Didn't help. Started putting hot compresses on it this morning, which didn't help much either. Now my eyelid's red, swollen, and painful. I can't tell if it's affecting my vision any, because I can pretty much only see out of the corner of that eye.
I'm pretty sure I know what this is. I had something similar back in the 90's, only it was much worse because it was in my good eye. So this scares me a little bit less than that did, but I'm still not having a great time.
I was laying on the couch this morning with a heat pack over my face for almost an hour before I decided enough was enough, and called the eye doctor. I hate to do it, because I was just there, but this is not going to go away on its own, and the pain is starting to really make me cranky.
Thankfully it was almost lunch when I called the doc's office, and the phone rang so many times in the front office that I think they finally had to pick it up in the back. This would explain why the person I talked to seemed to have it together anyway.
Really though, this is why I love my eye doctor's office. "What's your name and date of birth? And what's going on?" Pause. "Can you come in this afternoon?"
Yes, I can.
So, you know where I'll be at 3:15. And it's not that I don't want to go, it's just that I don't want to have to go.
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Date: 2010-03-30 11:35 pm (UTC)xx
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Date: 2010-04-01 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-01 08:48 pm (UTC)Yeah, my eye thing was the way milder blepharitis (but oddly, same cause as yours), which I never heard of until yesterday. but given I've got rosacea flare ups these days, seems like it's a thing I might have to expect more of in the future. Boo.
I was so sure it was a muscular thing though - it felt like I'd been punched.
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Date: 2010-03-31 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-01 07:23 pm (UTC)Aww, cute little Potterpuff Tom. :)