I posted a while back that I had been experiencing pain of the head, jaw and eye socket that was at times severe and seemed to me clearly to originate from the eyeball. The pain didn't follow any normal pattern of headache/migraine (came and went suddenly, could last seconds or hours). So, I went to the dentist just to rule out a dental problem. Dentist said no problems. Went to my GP and explained the problem, although did not mention that I felt the problem was coming from my eyes. GP was quite thourough and admitted he really had no idea.
So, I went to optometrist to have my eye pressure checked in case that was the cause: eye pressure high end of normal, like usual I think. I didn't have the head pain at the time. Optometrist was decent, looked inside my eyes (not dilated though) couldn't find anything, did a retinal photo which seemed normal, and I am going back for a visual field test and another eye pressure check earlier in the day (as optometrist said eye pressures can be higher in the morning). Optometrist suggested I should see an ophthalomologist about this problem but just wanted the result of the visual field test to give to them first.
My question is: given how useless ophthalmologists are with dry eye, are they going to be any better with this problem? Is it worth my emotional and financial effort to see one about this? Are there additional tests I should ask for, and is the ophthalomologist likely to agree to do this? I really feel the eye doc is going to just see the dry eye and say pain and photophobia = from dry eye, NEXT PATIENT.
As an aside, this optometrist mentioned to me a similar thing that I've been told before, can't recall the exact words but the surface of the eye is a bunch of scar tissue, making it obvious that I've had the problem a long time. Scarring is mostly on the bottom third of the eye. Does this pattern of scarring indicate anything in particular, and how can this worsening scar tissue and chronic punctate keratitis possibly be benign in the long term?
Thanks for listening
So, I went to optometrist to have my eye pressure checked in case that was the cause: eye pressure high end of normal, like usual I think. I didn't have the head pain at the time. Optometrist was decent, looked inside my eyes (not dilated though) couldn't find anything, did a retinal photo which seemed normal, and I am going back for a visual field test and another eye pressure check earlier in the day (as optometrist said eye pressures can be higher in the morning). Optometrist suggested I should see an ophthalomologist about this problem but just wanted the result of the visual field test to give to them first.
My question is: given how useless ophthalmologists are with dry eye, are they going to be any better with this problem? Is it worth my emotional and financial effort to see one about this? Are there additional tests I should ask for, and is the ophthalomologist likely to agree to do this? I really feel the eye doc is going to just see the dry eye and say pain and photophobia = from dry eye, NEXT PATIENT.
As an aside, this optometrist mentioned to me a similar thing that I've been told before, can't recall the exact words but the surface of the eye is a bunch of scar tissue, making it obvious that I've had the problem a long time. Scarring is mostly on the bottom third of the eye. Does this pattern of scarring indicate anything in particular, and how can this worsening scar tissue and chronic punctate keratitis possibly be benign in the long term?
Thanks for listening
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