I am scared.

[MyDryEyes]

On Wednesday I had the best eye day I have had in months with relatively little pain. Yesterday, however, was awful. By 5pm I felt like I had sticks poking out my eyes.

I am really concerned about my level of pain and how it always seems to get worse. I almost wonder if I have pain syndrome in addition to dry eyes.

It isn't the pain that I would describe as the gritty, scratchy or itchy feeling of dry eyes. But just flat out aching, sore pain. Is it normal for dry eyes to cause this much pain?

I was in so much pain last night that I was in bed by 8p.m. All I can do these days is go to work and then go home and rest. The weekends are the same - days and days spent lying on the couch just trying to cope with the pain.

I am 32 and life seems like a long haul. I have had so many people tell me it will get better, but today I am doubting that a bit. It just seems to get worse - it is a horrible, debilitating pain. The light at the end of the tunnel is dim today. . . .

MDE

[calli66]

Sounds similar to what Dotanne (a member here) used to describe--and she eventually was diagnosed with nerve pain, if I remember right. And she got better. Try searching her older threads and see what you think.

It's so confusing to have a great day followed by a day of pain, for no apparent reason. I get pain behind my driest eye, and I know corneal pain is really severe, but that doesn't sound like what you are experiencing.

I don't know---a pain clinic, maybe.

C

[MyDryEyes]

Hi Calli,

I am familiar with Dotanne's story. My pain really does feel like corneal pain and isn't that deep facial pain that some seem to have.

I did visit a pain management specialist yesterday and he prescribed neurontin (SP??) which I have heard has worked well for a few other folks. I took some last night, but it didn't seem to help. I slept like a rock,so I think it may have made me a bit drowsy, which means I won't be able to take it during the day as prescribed.

[bernmee]

I have had that type of pain.

The first type I would describe as "a washer women's hands that are red raw from hand scrbbing clothes in a hot tub of water for a whole day" They just felt raw and so sore.

The second type was "someone has boxed me in the eye and my eyeball is so bruised and sore" I also couldn't touch the eye without this bruised feeling.
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It would swtich between pain one, two and the other assortment of pains within an hour, and my life revolved around part time work, couch, crying and valium.

I demanded plugs when I heard about them through this site, and they helped hold in those precious tears.

I left my Lasik Dr. when I felt he was not telling me the truth about things. I had Lasik in one eye, and it turns out I had a pre-existing condition in both eyes of MGD. This I think is why I had pain two. I am now on Doxy, and Rebecca's rice bag is a saviour. I feel I am now producing more tears then I was at the start.

I also had severe erosions immediately after Lasik and my new Dr. told me I had I was still probably having mini erosions, this I think may explain pain one.

Hae you had the Schirmers test and TBUT test, what are you results?

Thankfully I am now onto the more managable feelings...feeling of foreign object etc

I'm not sure if this is of any help to you but thought I would throw it out there. My experience of post Lasik pain was agony, and the major breakthroug came in finding this site and swtiching to a Dr. who could help.

I hope this has helped you a little.

Bernadette