Chronic Eye Pain

Dear Docs and Readers,

I am a healthy, active 21 year-old college student with no allergies or history of eye troubles.  I visited my doctor and ran all blood tests with a clean bill of health.   I visited a neurologist and an ophthalmologist without any prevail over my chronic eye pain (minus the slight far-sided vision, but nothing extreme).

My story begins about six years ago when I randomly got throbbing pains in the backs of my eyes. In the beginning of having this pain, one or both of my eyes would turn dark red, pink, at random times of the day and without anything (known) to provoke the pain.  I would be in different places doing different things and my eyes would begin to hurt.  The pain would sometimes be in one eye, or both, not primarily any either/or, including the redness.  The redness has subsided a bit but the pain is sometimes terrible, sometimes easy to live with or I ignore it.  I have had many tests done and yet nothing has described this horrible pain.  I don't have any sensitivity to lights or dust or anything of the sort.  My doctor explained that I have an "atypical chronic condition" that I'll most likely have to live with forever.

Of course, you can imagine that answer as being very disappointing, having been told I'll be in pain forever.  Can anyone, perhaps, shed some ideas or relative stories?

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

I would suggest you see an ophthalmologist specializing in  cornea and external diseases.

Dr. O.

[star_glider]

i have the same problem as you do. but one of my eye is weaker then the other eye. i am losing vision on one of my eyes everything is blurry and i have pain shooting behind my eye that is weak and i am also having bad pains in the back of my head on the same side of my weak eye. so i know what you are going threw. there nothing that the doctor say they can do about the pain we are going threw. so i can relate  to your pain and your eyes but i dont get the red eye just get pain in one eye and have head pain on one side of the head. i have it everyday. pain can be really bad at times..