I was hoping someone could tell me what's going on under my eyelids. For over 6 years, each and every day I have had air under my eyelids in the form of minuscule bubbles. I can begin to close my eyelids and look to the upper left, and the bubbles come out with a loud click. After I do this there are immediately more air bubbles; the sensation never goes away. Sometimes I can just look upwards and the air bubbles come out of the area around my tear ducts with a much louder sound.
My optometrist said to me a couple years ago that it was a symptom of seasonal allergies. The under-side of my eyelids are covered with tiny bumps, and the space between them fills up with air. This makes logical sense, but the symptoms are not seasonal, they are daily. She prescribed me Allegra or something, which I took for a few months and discontinued after it produced no results.
The problem is aggravated when I am tired. It has also become a compulsion--when I feel the bubbles there, I "click" them out over and over again, until my eyes are dry or something distracts me. I can't stop this; I do it for hours a day, and I feel ridiculous.
Any feedback? I greatly appreciate it.