pain behind my eyes

I GET SHARP PAINS RIGHT NEXT TO MY EYES AND BEHIND THEM AND I WAS WONDERING IF YOU MY KNOW WHY?

[Michael J Kutryb, MD]

Could be several things.  For starters - get a general eye check-up with ophthalmologist to make sure you don't have any eye diseases.  Now after that - if you still have  unexplained pains around and behind eyes - you can begin looking into other non-ocular causes like sinus problems, trigeminal neuralgia, cluster headaches, migraine headaches.  This type of complaint can be very difficult to to unravel.  But you have to start somewhere - so again see ophthalmologist for starters and you may even need to see neurologist and get head and sinus CT scans possibly if no answers can be found.

MJK MD