Ocular Herpes Question

[maltipoo]

Hi i am very grateful for this website and i think this is a great way to get more information from others who have experienced same problems! Thank you to everyone that responds and takes time to read my long question :) About over a month ago i  exposed myself to ocular herpes by rubbing my eye after touching an infection, about a week after the exposure i began taking 1200 mg a day of acyclovir and have continued to take it ever since just in case i could have gotten it. For about a month i have had pain behind my eyes and a little bit of burning sensation and foggyness in one eye from time to time, as well as having a few sharp shooting pains every once in a while that feels like it could be some kind of nerves in my eye. I just contracted type 1 herpes about 2 months ago from my husband and had blood tests to show,  since i just got the type 1 virus and my body has not had a lot of time to create antibodies im wondering if this could be ocular herpes because of the direct exposure and the discomfort behind and around my eyes is just the virus settling in the nerves? I have been pretty worried about it every day and have seen corneal specialists and opthamologists and they have said that my eye is clear but it may not be showing up because it is inactive right now. I have not had bloodshot eyes or itchyness or discharge but i have had the other symptoms, if there is any information someone could please give me i would really appreciate it because i dont want to have to worry my whole life that i possibly do have ocular herpes and it may just show up someday and possibly causes blindness. Please any answers would really help me. Thanks so much

[John C Hagan III, MD, FACS]

Ocular herpes simplex type 1 rarely causes blindness and is usally easy to treat with oral antivirals.

If things change return to the corneal Eye MDs

Relax some

JCH MD