Eye Pain

A Stranger Diagnosed Me With Misaligned Eyes

I’ve had foggy vision, headaches, and jaw pain for years but it never occurred to me that it was because of my eyes. So I asked some experts.

When Routine Eye Surgery Leads to Debilitating Pain

In rare cases, complications from Lasik or cataract surgery can leave patients feeling as if they have shards of glass in their eyes. Researchers are looking to treat the condition, known as neuropathic corneal pain.

Eye pain: Is it an emergency?

Eye pain is a catch-all phrase to describe discomfort on, in, behind or around the eye. The pain can be unilateral or bilateral — in other words, you can experience right eye pain, left eye pain, or the discomfort that affects both eyes. There's no evidence that right eye pain occurs more frequently than left eye pain, or vice versa. In some cases, such as an eye injury, the cause of eye pain is obvious. But often it's difficult to know why your eye hurts.

What's the Stabbing Pain in my Eye?

Here are some common causes of eye pain – see if any of them apply to you,,,

A Stranger Diagnosed Me With Misaligned Eyes

I’ve had foggy vision, headaches, and jaw pain for years but it never occurred to me that it was because of my eyes. So I asked some experts.

Eye pain could be glaucoma, or maybe just momentary stress

The symptoms of an attack of "angle-closure" glaucoma may include pain, blurred vision, coloured haloes around lights, headache, nausea and vomiting. If you are having these symptoms, then this may be an indication of an attack of glaucoma and you should seek help from your ophthalmologist.

Eye Pain in Children

Primary care physicians are often the first to see a child with the complaint of eye pain. The eye examination in children is not easy, and the entities that can cause pain in children range from a foreign body in the cornea to the most serious amblyogenic (inducing decreased vision) and life-threatening conditions. Eye pain is a red flag for ocular and systemic conditions, either in a “quiet eye” or “red eye.”

How Blue Light Could Damage Cells In Your Eyes

Increasing evidence suggests that blue light has a dark side. At night, it can suppress the secretion of melatonin and wreak havoc on our circadian rhythms, and recent studies have shown that extended exposure to blue light can damage the retina, though exactly how it does this has not been clear.

How Sleeping With Contact Lenses Can Hurt Your Eyes, Graphic Pictures Show

There are several things that you should do before falling asleep. One is get off the toilet and flush. A second is turn off the stove. A third is to take your contact lenses out of your eyes.

Just an (Eye) Drop of Poison

Surprised? You shouldn't be. Eye-drop poisoning is more routine you might think.

Sudden Eye Pain: What Does It Mean and What are the Possible Causes?

What makes eye pain so frustrating is that it can be linked to different eye diseases and conditions. Eye pain can fall into one of these two categories: ocular pain (occurs on the surface of the eye) and orbital pain (occurs within the eye).

What are the common causes of eye pain?

Eye pain can have a variety of causes. It is typically divided into conditions that affect the cornea, conditions that affect of other parts of the eye, and conditions involving other areas of the body that cause pain to be felt in the eye area.

This Is When to See a Doctor About Eye Pain ASAP

Sometimes it’s not worth the wait.

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Eye pain is often described as burning, sharp, shooting, dull, gritty, a feeling of "something in my eye," aching, pressure, boring, throbbing, or stabbing. People sometimes confuse pain originating from the eye with other symptoms, such as a headache, sinus pain, toothache, or a migraine.

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Synopsis of the usual causes of eye pain...