My eyes have both felt this way in the past 3 weeks, at alternating times. Suddenly one eye will get bright red and start tearing like crazy. It is hyper-sensitive to light and itchy to the point of being painful. It feels like I scratched it or have something stuck in it, and I take my contact out until that feeling eventually goes away and the eye clears up. Then I pop the contact back in ... and then in 2 days or so it happens again, often in the other eye.
I noticed that rinsing it with saline sometimes relieves the pain. I am living in a developing country and though there are doctors here, honestly I don't trust them and will only go to one if nothing I do at home works. I thought at first it was an eye infection so I've been taking Cipro (antibiotic) as directed, rinsing my eyes with saline and foregoing my contacts when this is happening. However, there has been no gunky discharge that suggests infection so I just popped an antihistamine thinking maybe it's allergies.
Anyone?
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