Poll (of sorts): Just one-word answers, please!

[Beatriz]

Photophobia!

[Virginia Ann]

photophobia

[DoubleA]

Gritty. Scratchy ... but not constant, mainly late at night, or early in morning.

[lynnwiggers]

it feels like it is scratched

[robster]

Scratchy and sore( I know that's more than one word!)

[heyjude0701]

photophobia

[jerusalemStone]

menthol sensation inside, photophobia outside

[pat-eye]

Foreign body sensation, very gritty

[daphane]

pressure feeling as though they are going to pop out

[kandykane1544]

burning...

[hankm9]

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[MissyLaLa]

"Raw"

Except when I get a corneal injury going, then my word is "torture".

[Max]

broken-glass

[Gaye]

Definitely burning!

[rswisley]

More like: dull knife scraping off your most sensitive skin. (debilitating and cannot be lived with on a regular basis)
Itching or foreign body in eye is the more trivial irritation that happens several hours after. I could live with this trivial irritant.