swollen eyes

[bazzard]

My eyes are red. My eyeballs are very sore feeling swollen. I have had a recent eye test as I wear contact lenses.

[Sqad]

Are they itching? are they watering? Have you any history of hay fever?
When did you have your eye test? What was the result?
Have you any joint problems or discharge from your penis?

[bazzard]

None of these problems. Eye test two weeks ago - no problems

[237SJ]

When you had the eye test, did you change your brand of contacts or your solutions? Could you have allergic conjunctivitis? I wear contacts and I have found Brolene drops useful in the past (you can`t wear your contacts when you use it though).

[sara3]

I'd suggest you take a break from the contacts til it clears up.

I don't envy you :o/

[bazzard]

The weekend is coming up and I usually go without contacts. I haven't changed the type of lens or the solution and my eyes don't feel dry or extra watery. Might go to the chemist and ask his advice - he might suggest something

[york310]

I suggest you go back to have your eyes checked. Did you have these symptoms when you had your recent eye examination and was your problem investigated? If they are new symptoms then you have a new problem that has not been examined.
Leave your lenses out and book a contact lens check up. It could be something or nothing. It could be dry eyes or it could be infiltrating keratitis. It could be allergic issues or even a different type of infection.
Too many things can cause binocular red eyes which are best investigated by your optometrist rather than left and presumed to be nothing.

[york310]

Should have read as infiltrative keratitis. Silly predictive text.

Sore is a broad term. Try to describe it in a few different words.
Dry, gritty, tender, itchy, burning, etc
Any discharge , watery or sticky?
Is the redness around the cornea or more under the lids?
Is your vision normal with your specs on?

[bazzard]

tender eyeballs, with skin around eyes unaffected in any way. Red all over visible white part of eye, but not grotesquely so. Eyes were fine when examined recently. Symptoms in last two days only. Very slight ache when I roll my eyes around. Slightly stiff creaky neck, but I might be a bit dehydrated. Vision is fine with and without specs and contact lenses. No stickiness in the eyes. Will have an early night, although it was at its worst when I woke up this morning.

[Sqad]

I agree with york 310.....the condition that comes to mind after answering my question above is open angle glaucoma but I doubt that this would have been missed by the Optometrist in your test 2 weeks ago,

[york310]

Open angle (or chronic) glaucoma is generally an symptomatic condition unless quite advanced in which a noticeable peripheral vision loss could become apparent. Closed angle (or acute) is where there is a great increase in intra ocular pressures due to drainage pro lens causing significant pain, redness and reduced vision. Unlikely to happen in both eyes at once.

The symptoms do resemble more dry eye issues more commonly associated with long wearing times of lenses but my recommendation of optometrist or contact lens specialist assessment still stands.

[Sqad]

///york310
Open angle (or chronic) glaucoma is generally an symptomatic condition unless //

I think you mean "asymptomatic".....forgive me if i have misinterpreted your comment.

I agree.

[york310]

Lol, predictive text issues and my ignorance in not reading what I have typed. Open angle glaucoma is asymptomatic......

[Sqad]

yorky....no big deal, I did indeed know what you meant, but it was just sqad trying to be a clever s0d in an area that he knows bu99er all about.