I don’t know whether its psychosomatic or what, but waked at 4:30 with the left eye puffy and painful…called the surgeon, which has been a process: took me from 7 am till about 11 to get hold of just the desk at the surgery center; and they’re going to have a look at it tomorrow morning early. Meanwhile eyedrops and compresses. It delivers a stabbing pain now and again sort of like having a contact lens stuck where it doesn’t belong, up under the lid. The optometrist saw it Friday, and said the pressure was good and all that, and couldn’t figure why it would hurt ever so often…
So, well, about 4:30 this morning it hurt worse—waked me up; and wouldn’t quit. Since I’ve gotten up and moved about (and blinked a lot) it’s backed off a bit. But this eye has had a nagging pain now and again ever since the surgery. And since 4:30 this morning it cuts in about every half hour for a few minutes, then quits.
So I went down to the courthouse and told the very reasonable people I have to beg off, so I am off. Since I am off and it is still hurting quite distractingly, I tend not to think it was psychosomatic…but I’ll be happier if the doc tomorrow can find something specific and get rid of the pain. It feels for all the world like an object lodged up somewhere in that nasty little hollow in the upper lid. I wonder if there’s something from the surgery that wandered where it shouldn’t have.
I did stop the meds last Wednesday, as completed, and if anything is going to get infected it now has a chance to be, so I figure I do need to have this looked at asap. If it’s just a nerve that got dinged that will eventually heal, all good: I’ll survive. But I do hope they can figure this out. My eyes are, like, majorly important.
Pain in the eye is not a good thing and you should be seeing (heh) you doctor as soon as it’s possible. I had irritation for more than a month after my most recent, but never the kind of pain you are describing.
Hope all goes well.
I’m really hoping they don’t tell me I’ll have to live with this forever. But 8:45 AM…tomorrow…I can make. The doc has surgeries all day today, office tomorrow. So hopefully I’ll know something soon.
Meanwhile Jane got called back for another round of jury duty, but since it starts at 9 am tomorrow, and we have only one car, this is a problem, plus if they do another dilation round to work on this, I may need her.
EEK. Best wishes it’ll all turn out fine, and whatever’s gone off-kilter will get, uh, back on-kilter. Or get its kilt back on. Or some such….
Really, best wishes. Trouble with your vision is not a thing you want. Pain, definitely not. :hugs:
Is this the same eye that had the 2 ingrown eyelashes? Any chance this is the revenge of said eyelashes? Owie-owie-owie!
that was my thought, as well.
Eyes are really sensitive. A speck of dust in the wrong place can hurt like hell. Hope the doctor figures it out quick.
Can we have the old format back? Can’t tell who’s talking where! 🙁
Just noticed. WordPress updates, and we have to figure what on earth happened to our widgets. Elusive lil devils. I’ll see what we can do.
WWAS still has one glitch (cut/paste):
FOREIGNER WHO’S WHO
Link I http://trackmysoftware.com/cj/index.php Link II https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ArIp0rcqdCw4dDJJSTFJbXlWaUFzRmdKNGpHcFRmR3c&usp=sharing#gid=0
Perhaps missing the … anchors?
I meant [a …]…[/a] anchor tags, but they got swallowed.
I’ve done a quick patch, inventing techniques like using the trackpoint mouse with one hand and the touchpad with the other to get WP to scroll down and up far enough to let me drag our missing pieces out of the lengthy ‘we just totally screwed this and don’t know where it belongs’ spot in the dashboard.
Sheesh, WordPress! Gimme a break!
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
:chuckles: Yeah, WordPress and some other software do seem to have a mind of their own at times. Er, figuratively speaking, that is. I haven’t yet noticed any A.I.’s talking back to me. Whew. (I don’t talk with Siri much….)
One is much relieved the widget is whacked back in place.
One notes Jane’s blog has had the same problem for a while, the last I checked (yesterday).
Many thanks for fixing it here. I prefer seeing snippets of new replies also.
Wasn’t sure where I should have put the notice, I did post it in the Carbonite thread, it might have gotten buried, or just overlooked.
Thanks for fixing it!
Hope your eyes are doing better. I have occasional but recurring eye pain and inflammation. A drop of Prednisolone (pink top eyedrops) will generally knock it out. Warm compresses and Bacitracin are a daily ritual that also helps with maintenance.
Well, 😉 we have a diagnosis. Not directly related to the surgery, I have what is commonly known as a stye, which children get, an impaction of the oil glands at the base of the eyelash, meaning swelling, scratchiness and pain, but in the eyelid, not the eye. Treatment: 10 min of compress 4x daily, plus a bacitracin polymixin 3x daily ointment to take care of any bacterial accompaniment, and to relieve the scratchiness. This is the same eye an anaesthesiologist once dropped ether into while I had pinkeye (broken arm emergency, the guy wasn’t on duty, and was pulled off the Fort Sill golf course, what I understand) — but at any rate, blood vessels are thin and the surface has a scar or two, so despite it being my ‘better’ eye, it has its problems, and maybe the lengthy course of meds just somehow got it all unhappy.
I am quite happy to learn it is only surface, and a common problem, not a surgery complication.
Jane and I are now officially off jury duty: they let me off because I was/am in pain, and they let her off to drive me, so we can draw a deep breath and try to get [sigh] the taxes done and me cured so we can start fixing the floor.
Glad to hear it’s not the surgery. Styes can be obnoxious, but they are readily fixable. If it had been something gone wrong with the eye surgery, that would have been a big ‘Yike!’
Sounds like the eyelashes called in reinforcements 😀
I think you’re quite right. And the doc pronounced the post-surgery condition of the eye itself optimum. This hurts like blazes and I can’t concentrate worth a darn—it’s sitting right on the nerve to the sinuses—but it’s endurable.
Whew! I’m glad it’s something simply treated, and not related to the surgery.
You have my deepest sympathy. Been there, had them, and they are truly a pain. I had four or five one summer — the summer we went to Yellowstone. I was 12. They were allergic sties triggered by one of the tree species in that neck of the woods. I think I’ve had maybe two more in the half century since. Warm compresses are the ticket. I hope this is the only one you get.
Oh, very glad you’re OK, at least on the mend.
My sympathies. I had a couple of bouts of that and almost went out of my mind. Now when I shower I let the warm shower water pound on my closed eyes in hopes of forestalling another clogged oil gland.