Hi guys
I went to my GP this week to get my eyes looked at for something other than dizziness. For the past 2 years I have strangely been waking up every 4-5 weeks with an extremely painful right eye. The pain is quite unbearable, like a needle poking and scratching my eyeball. I wake up with my eye blood red and streaming heavily. The pain, redness and streaming eases off after about 8 hours each time and the next day I am completely back to normal until the next episode, about 4-5 weeks later. I did visit my doctor back in 2012 when it first started but he put it down to conjunctivitis which it obviously was not. So I have just put up with it hoping that it eventually would disappear.
This past Monday I yet again awoke with the same pain and decided enough is enough. So I went to see a doctor I had never seen before. She told me I would be seen by an opthalmologist soon to get further tests concerning any nystagmus I may have causing or contributing to my dizziness and that they will also look at my eye because of the pain I am experiencing. In the meantime she sent me to my local optician to get a few basic tests done.
So yesterday I visited my local optician (something I should have done myself years ago really ) and she told me that the reason my eye is hurting is because I have a recurrent corneal abrasion. A tear in my cornea that for some reason will not heal. It seems that I have no pain for 4-5 weeks at a time because the scar tissue is healing but then when I go to sleep my eyes get dry and pulls open the tear. I tell you guys the pain is something else. We have all had a feeling of grit in the eye but this feels like 20 needles. She asked if I remember any time I may have injured my eye and I actually do remember an event.
About 2 years ago I was outside in my back yard, it was dark outside and I decided I would complete some basic vestibular exercises such as walking back and forth,shaking my head left to right whilst looking at my fingertip (as you do). The reason I went outside was because I thought the dark environment might further strain my vestibular system and make it work even harder (ridiculous really). Anyway there I was walking back and forth,shaking my head side to side and WHAM, what I can only describe as an extremely overweight moth flew straight into my eye. I assume it was a moth like creature but for all I know it could have been a bat with echolocation dysfunction performing it's nightly head exercises. What I do know was that it was a very heavy and hard impact. You guys can imagine what a shock to the wonky vestibular system that was. I was more concerned about not falling over than what just hit my eye. So I rubbed my eye and went back into the house and forgot about it until this week.
On the plus side my eyes are in very good health and I do not require glasses (not bad for 35). I did discuss prism glasses and how they might be able to help with vertical heterophoria and nystagmus but was told I do not display any need for prisms whatsoever. She saw no signs of any eye muscle issues but said that the eye specialist will do more delicate testing for nystagmus. She did say that if any nystagmus is still present and is causing my dizziness, unfortunately there is no cure (Great).
I will keep you posted
Take care guys
Swimmyhead
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