Eye (Muscle?) Pain

No rubbing of eyes all day.  I was looking at my computer screen and then glanced away. This action made me flinch as I thought something was in my eye.  Having had a shard of metal there years ago I knew enough not to rub it but instead to go after a mirror.  I did so but didn't see anything there at all.  I lifted my eye lid and looked at the inner corner where the pain was.  It looked normal except there is an air gap between the lid,eye ball, and just above the muscle(?) in the corner.  Looking at the other eye there is no gap and makes the bad eye seem like 1/2 the muscle has disappeared.  The pain is intermittent with no known pattern of eye movement.  This was a sudden happening with no apparent cause.

  I have a regular follow up appointment with my PCP in the morning (followed by the cardiologist two hours later) and will have her take a look.  She is not very good at all and I'll be dumping her soon simply because she doesn't want to know anything about two "conditions" I have, Heart and Ear problems, she want the specialist to have excusive care of these).  In the mean time, even though there's not much information available in this post, does anyone have some suggestions to what this could be?

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

You probably have recurrent erosion syndrome.

Dr. O.