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

[Eli]

Burning, sticky

[shells]

"full" feeling, aching

[kelly1275]

dry eye: itching!

RCE: like squirting the juice from a lemon into the hundreds of papercuts on my eyeball



ETA: I don't actually have papercuts on my eyeball. I have apparently always had dry eyes, but developed RCE in April of 2006 after an injury to my eye. Kitty litter was involved, so I really did have 30-40 minor abrasions on my cornea.

[RobinH]

sharp stabbing

[Happymeal]

Burningmenthol

[willwork4tears]

Scratchy/sandpapery

[tennisiu]

sore/burning glare is a big problem

[Sammy B.]

I'm going to go with soreness/tightness.

And I would LOVE to hear what people's causes of dry eye are in this thread as well, if they are known. I don't think people always list LASIK or a similar surgery as the cause in their profiles. Probably for good reason. I don't want to admit it either.

Ho hum.

[lui]

Burning,

[msny]

For those of you who have significant corneal pain or other form of discomfort:

Can you please tell me in 1 word or very short phrase what your dominant pain sensation is?

If you have multiple symptoms, try to articulate the pain sensation that seems to be the most debilitating, that most interferes with your usual activities.

Examples (but please add different ones if none of these fits you!)

burning
foreign body sensation
scratchy
gritty
sore
pressure
photophobia
menthol sensation

Eyes get soreness.

[mylittlem]

For me it is the photophobia first. Secondary would be the burning.

[socratese]

me

Mentholburn sensation

[calcan]

photophobia, burning

[littlemermaid]

Child with MGD: photophobia, tearing, no energy. In children there can be no other sensation, therefore often undiagnosed resulting in severe vascularisation, corneal melt; still no pain as adults describe.

[izzy3usa2002]

Glass! Mine hurt so bad sometimes feels like glass in my eye. Broken glass.