Severe Eye Pain

[Pure_gold]

Other day i started having severe eye pain. Very light sensitive,red eye,the pain was out of this world. The pain got worst when I would move my eye side to side. Went to the eye doctor and they put some numbing drops in my eye. That took the pain away for about 10minutes. He said he thought it was just dry eye. Gave me some drops to put in my eye and it seems to have taken the redness away but still light sensitive and off and on I get a stabbing pain and it feels like it is coming from behind my eye. I have noticed a loss of vision acuity, everything looks white or that I am looking through a white sheet or cloud/fog. He said come back in a week to 10 days and he will look at the eye again.

Does this sound like dry eye?

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

Topical numbing drops would not relieve the pain in a cluster headache.  This suggest an ocular surface disorder.

Dr. O.

[yarrow]

Just one eye, and pain behind the eye?  Does the pain come and go in something like 'attacks'?  Does the nostril on the same side run?  I ask because part of what you're describing sounds a bit like a peculiar kind of headache called 'cluster headache.'

You can look it up via wikipedia and google, etc.

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

Try tears, if it helps it could be severe dry eyes.

Dr. O.