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OK. I hope you can help me, it's a long thread, because I've been suffering from a daily pain that prevent me from being social or completing my school.
First, just to clarify, 1: I did PRK back in 2016. 2: I am taking flaxseed oil tablets daily. 3: I clean my eyelids with lid scrub daily and Q-tib.
Feb 2017:
"I live in the northern side of the US, it's really cold out here" Now, the story started around 6 months ago, whenever I go to my girlfriend's apartment, I would feel this sting burning feeling in my right eye only, it does hurt so much! I thought its just a dry eye, so why not use some of the OTC eye drops in that right eye.... I kept using that with no problem, just a random stings every two weeks or so.
July 2017:
So, the real problem started in July. I went to this hot humid country in the middle east for two months!. Because of the weather, and I admit that its my mistake, I start using a lot of preservative OTC eye drops back there, starting with systane balance, cationorm (well-known brand in asia), some ointments like muro 128. The issue here, is that I kept using them like 7 times each a day or even more (my bad).. the more I feel my right eye is dry I use them more and more.. I would say like 15-20 times a day.... (Notice here that I don't use them in my left eye, thats why its perfect now!). Later on, after two weeks of using those eye drops in my right eye only, I would feel this weird pain (burning kinda) in inner corner of my right eye.. so I went to see around 3 opthamologists back there, and all of them said you're eye is fine, just a dry eye!. so they prescribed me more and more of eye drops! so why not, they are the expert, I kept using them for another two weeks till late July. The pain won't go away, and its very obvious its in the inner corner of the right eye.
Auguest 2017:
I am back to the US. I went to see three doctors, two optometrists, and one ophthalmologist. The first optometrists said nothing, and referred me to an ophthalmologist, the other optometrists prescribed me anti-inflammtory eye drop steriod, but I did not use it, because I know it will make my right eye worse!....... Finally, before my appointment with the ophthalmologist, I was like why I do not change my routine, let me throw all these eye drops that I am using for one week, and see what is going to happen. So why not, I stopped using any eye drop for one week, and I notice a huge improvement in my right eye! but still have this mild weird pain in the corner.
Sep 2017:
Anyways, I went to the ophthalmologist, and once he did put the yellow numbing eye drop, the pain was back. Anyways, I explained that I feel better when I stopped those preservative eye drops. so the ophthalmologist said why not using preservative-free eye drops! I was very skeptical and said to him "I would just wait", maybe its just a reaction to this chemicals in the preservative eye drops and my right eye would go back to normal (Also he said he's not sure, but it might be a calcium deposit, we need to do a CT-scan :S) . So I scheduled another appointment with him in late October "this month". Meanwhile, I've been using benadryl antihistamine oral tablets because I tried to use zaditor eye drops but it just make my inner corner worse and my conjunctiva more red. I think the oral anti-histamine is really helping me. "Notice, the other day my right eye was really good, so why not smoking a cigarette right?. once the smoke did hit my eye, I felt this stings and the pain was back".
Oct 2017:
One last thing to mention, after I was depreseed of finding a solution, I did order a castor oil, hexane free, cold pressed. and did an experiment to my both eyes. I applied a drop to my left eye " the perfect one" and had no problem or burning or any kind of pain. but when I applied that to my right eye, the inner corner of my right eye started to feel the burn!, so I rinse it right away with water, so I don't know if I developed an allergic reaction to certain chemicals or something!
Please, any ideas... I really feel bad, and depressed because of this pain, BTW: I am 23yrs old, male.
First, just to clarify, 1: I did PRK back in 2016. 2: I am taking flaxseed oil tablets daily. 3: I clean my eyelids with lid scrub daily and Q-tib.
Feb 2017:
"I live in the northern side of the US, it's really cold out here" Now, the story started around 6 months ago, whenever I go to my girlfriend's apartment, I would feel this sting burning feeling in my right eye only, it does hurt so much! I thought its just a dry eye, so why not use some of the OTC eye drops in that right eye.... I kept using that with no problem, just a random stings every two weeks or so.
July 2017:
So, the real problem started in July. I went to this hot humid country in the middle east for two months!. Because of the weather, and I admit that its my mistake, I start using a lot of preservative OTC eye drops back there, starting with systane balance, cationorm (well-known brand in asia), some ointments like muro 128. The issue here, is that I kept using them like 7 times each a day or even more (my bad).. the more I feel my right eye is dry I use them more and more.. I would say like 15-20 times a day.... (Notice here that I don't use them in my left eye, thats why its perfect now!). Later on, after two weeks of using those eye drops in my right eye only, I would feel this weird pain (burning kinda) in inner corner of my right eye.. so I went to see around 3 opthamologists back there, and all of them said you're eye is fine, just a dry eye!. so they prescribed me more and more of eye drops! so why not, they are the expert, I kept using them for another two weeks till late July. The pain won't go away, and its very obvious its in the inner corner of the right eye.
Auguest 2017:
I am back to the US. I went to see three doctors, two optometrists, and one ophthalmologist. The first optometrists said nothing, and referred me to an ophthalmologist, the other optometrists prescribed me anti-inflammtory eye drop steriod, but I did not use it, because I know it will make my right eye worse!....... Finally, before my appointment with the ophthalmologist, I was like why I do not change my routine, let me throw all these eye drops that I am using for one week, and see what is going to happen. So why not, I stopped using any eye drop for one week, and I notice a huge improvement in my right eye! but still have this mild weird pain in the corner.
Sep 2017:
Anyways, I went to the ophthalmologist, and once he did put the yellow numbing eye drop, the pain was back. Anyways, I explained that I feel better when I stopped those preservative eye drops. so the ophthalmologist said why not using preservative-free eye drops! I was very skeptical and said to him "I would just wait", maybe its just a reaction to this chemicals in the preservative eye drops and my right eye would go back to normal (Also he said he's not sure, but it might be a calcium deposit, we need to do a CT-scan :S) . So I scheduled another appointment with him in late October "this month". Meanwhile, I've been using benadryl antihistamine oral tablets because I tried to use zaditor eye drops but it just make my inner corner worse and my conjunctiva more red. I think the oral anti-histamine is really helping me. "Notice, the other day my right eye was really good, so why not smoking a cigarette right?. once the smoke did hit my eye, I felt this stings and the pain was back".
Oct 2017:
One last thing to mention, after I was depreseed of finding a solution, I did order a castor oil, hexane free, cold pressed. and did an experiment to my both eyes. I applied a drop to my left eye " the perfect one" and had no problem or burning or any kind of pain. but when I applied that to my right eye, the inner corner of my right eye started to feel the burn!, so I rinse it right away with water, so I don't know if I developed an allergic reaction to certain chemicals or something!
Please, any ideas... I really feel bad, and depressed because of this pain, BTW: I am 23yrs old, male.
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