I don't understand what this is? Eye herpes?

[LivingwithOCD07]

I can't figure out what is going on with my eye. I don't have insurance, but I may go ahead and see if there is anywhere I can go that will bill me. I just want to get some opinions. My eyelid has been itching and swelling for about 2 or 3 days now, it is only the lower eye lid, the skin underneath my eyeball. It looks like there could be bumps under there, almost a yellowish color, but hard to tell because it's mostly slightly red. I don't know if any clear fluid was coming from it or from my eye and when I pushed it to itch it that's when I saw a tiny amount of fluid. It's itchy, and burns when water is put on it, I haven't touched it, so I don't know how tender it is, but I'm assuming pretty tender since it itches so much and is a little bulging. When I look at it in the mirror, I see that my eyelashes are a bit stuck to my eyelid as if I was crying. But it's not particularly wet, just along the lashline. Oh and only on my right eye. I also have a blister feeling in my lip, I don't know if that has anything to do with it, it's only one and it's flat, like the skin is broken, like I bit it. I have never had any history or outbreaks of HSV-1 or HSV-2, but my husband has HSV-1 and I believe my son may have HSV-1 (The kind that affects the mouth). I'm also wondering if I could spread whatever this is from my eye (which I'm convinced is herpes) to my genitals, and I keep having to shower and I'm just wearing myself out here. Could you give me advice on this but also tell me what herpes of the eye general symptoms and what it looks like.

[kaoticblue87]

Well, best thing to do is get that looked at by the eye doctor while it is there. Shouldn't be more than 35 bucks without insurance...least that is how much it cost me. I was in a similar situation as you were a few months back. My eyes were burning whenever they would get wet and there was slight crusting on the eye lashes. Come to find out, there wasn't a sign of herpes in my eyes but "dry spots" from the contacts I was wearing. The crusting too was from a bacteria infection on the eyelids that is common.

Also, if you had ocular herpes, the doctor told me that during the worst of it, you would not be able to open your eye due to the immense pain and the crusting would cover the eye to the point where you would have to pry it open with your fingers to get your eye to open.  

[LivingwithOCD07]

Right, but I don't have insurance, and have been calling around to see if there are places that will do payment plans, and there's not. So.. but whatever it is is now a scab looking thing under my eye, so I assume the infection is healing, whatever it may be. That really sucks if it is HSV-1 though, but that's what it resembles, and also I feel an itching, slight burning sensation in the location as well.

[gracefromHHP]

the odds of this being due to herpes are very low. best thing to do is to go and be seen.

grace