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Eye itching
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Eye itching
by Syagrius, Apr 20, 2007 12:00AM
Hi,
It has been three weeks since I started to feel a burning sensation and a itching in the corner and upper part of my left eye. I don't have any redness, no sensitivity to light and no lost of sight. However, it does really hurt sometimes. I have seen an ophtalmologist one week after it started and he has seen nothing. I have passed a tomodensitometry exam with a scanner. They say the scan is normal. The eyelid is swollen a bit though. They gave me an anti inflamatory drug to help for that (pms-diclofenac-k 50 MG).
I asked them many times if it was not a virus since two days before it started, my girlfriend kissed me near the left eye and she has frequent herpes simplex 1 outbreaks since she is pregnant. I don't remember if she did have one. Medics say they don't think it is that because there would be huge symthoms or not at all. And since they didn't see any foreign bodies or infections visible, they think it is not a virus. But one doctor said one week after it started that a virus would last a long time. So for now I don't have answers and I still feel the itching and the feeling of have something stuck in the left corner of my left eye. Friends say it could be psychological but when I feel sometimes the feeling of a needle in the corner of my eye, it seems very real for me.
An ophtalmologist will call me back in two weeks for scheduling an appointment in an external clinic.
Does anyone though have an idea about that. I had to take the week off my work because it was rendering me unable to function normally (I am a production manager)? I need kind of desperately answers. I took all the measures I could imagine to have them and I am still in the dark.
I thank you in advance!
Syagrius
Québec, Québec, Canada
It has been three weeks since I started to feel a burning sensation and a itching in the corner and upper part of my left eye. I don't have any redness, no sensitivity to light and no lost of sight. However, it does really hurt sometimes. I have seen an ophtalmologist one week after it started and he has seen nothing. I have passed a tomodensitometry exam with a scanner. They say the scan is normal. The eyelid is swollen a bit though. They gave me an anti inflamatory drug to help for that (pms-diclofenac-k 50 MG).
I asked them many times if it was not a virus since two days before it started, my girlfriend kissed me near the left eye and she has frequent herpes simplex 1 outbreaks since she is pregnant. I don't remember if she did have one. Medics say they don't think it is that because there would be huge symthoms or not at all. And since they didn't see any foreign bodies or infections visible, they think it is not a virus. But one doctor said one week after it started that a virus would last a long time. So for now I don't have answers and I still feel the itching and the feeling of have something stuck in the left corner of my left eye. Friends say it could be psychological but when I feel sometimes the feeling of a needle in the corner of my eye, it seems very real for me.
An ophtalmologist will call me back in two weeks for scheduling an appointment in an external clinic.
Does anyone though have an idea about that. I had to take the week off my work because it was rendering me unable to function normally (I am a production manager)? I need kind of desperately answers. I took all the measures I could imagine to have them and I am still in the dark.
I thank you in advance!
Syagrius
Québec, Québec, Canada
Doctor's Answer
by Forum-OD-MP, Apr 20, 2007 12:00AM
does not sound like virus to me, either.
anything in the 'corner' of the eye could be 'angular blepharitis':
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_795.htm
scroll to the bottom of that link...
anything in the 'corner' of the eye could be 'angular blepharitis':
http://www.revoptom.com/index.asp?page=2_795.htm
scroll to the bottom of that link...
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Here's a description I found that match exactly what I must live whit 24 hours on 24 :
http://www.allaboutvision.com/conditions/blepharitis.htm
Should I wait to see an eye doctor on monday morning or should I go see him right away on weekend?
Syagrius
I don't really if someone can help me. I look so much right from the outside..
Syagrius
Thanks for the good diagnosis!
Syagrius