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Hi all,
Am a 17 year old student living in London (UK) and I've had this issue for 2-3 years now.
Whenever I wake in the morning to go to school my eyes are fairly red - no matter how much sleep I get - and they get progressively worse as the day goes on.
My eyes will also regularly burn and feel sore as the day goes on as they just feel really bad. I also get large numbers of floaters in the eyes (though this isn't anything to be concerned by apparently).
Also I find that I have to squint all the time as my eyes feel very sensitive to light. This is annoying as much as anything.
As anyone who has this will testify it's not brilliant, obviously I get all the questions about being stoned or whatever so I just want to get something done to limit the symptoms.
I've been to the doctor who looked at the eyes, agreed they were red and referred me to the optician. They examined my eyes and did not find anything wrong with my vision or anything untoward. SUggested it may be an allergy of some sort.
To be honest I'm not overly worried about other symptoms, I just want to find the cause of the eye redness and put a stop to that more than anything, it's the most irritating thing ever.
Been reading up recently on the symptoms of dry eye and have found a lot of what I suffer with correlates to that, so I'm wondering if that would be the likely diagnosis? If so, what's the best way forward, and if not, what do you think it could be?
Any help would be appreciated.
Am a 17 year old student living in London (UK) and I've had this issue for 2-3 years now.
Whenever I wake in the morning to go to school my eyes are fairly red - no matter how much sleep I get - and they get progressively worse as the day goes on.
My eyes will also regularly burn and feel sore as the day goes on as they just feel really bad. I also get large numbers of floaters in the eyes (though this isn't anything to be concerned by apparently).
Also I find that I have to squint all the time as my eyes feel very sensitive to light. This is annoying as much as anything.
As anyone who has this will testify it's not brilliant, obviously I get all the questions about being stoned or whatever so I just want to get something done to limit the symptoms.
I've been to the doctor who looked at the eyes, agreed they were red and referred me to the optician. They examined my eyes and did not find anything wrong with my vision or anything untoward. SUggested it may be an allergy of some sort.
To be honest I'm not overly worried about other symptoms, I just want to find the cause of the eye redness and put a stop to that more than anything, it's the most irritating thing ever.
Been reading up recently on the symptoms of dry eye and have found a lot of what I suffer with correlates to that, so I'm wondering if that would be the likely diagnosis? If so, what's the best way forward, and if not, what do you think it could be?
Any help would be appreciated.
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