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Recurring eye infection in my right eye

by mewtwo, May 12, 2008 12:27PM
What could be the reason for only my right eye becoming really red(bloodshot red) and painful.  Is it an eye infection? And this year, I started to wear soft contacts that are equivalent to hard ones and I have had this recurring
eye infection in my right eye 4 times this year and then it will be in my left eye at other times.
I hate being in public when this happens but I must show up for work.

Is it my contacts?  Could it be a scratch on my contact that is causing this or do I in fact have an eye infection of
some sort?
Member Comments (1)

by John C Hagan III, MD, FACS, May 12, 2008 12:58PM
Red eye, painful eye, sensitive to light in a patient wearing contacts 90% + its the contacts. Leave the contacts out and see an Eye MD ophthalmologist. Find one at www.aao.org

JCH IIIMD
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