i dont know what i have

[alexm22]

a week ago my left eye started to hurt out of nowhere later that day i notice that it was getting very red. i never had any type of eye problem before, my sister said it was just pink eye and that it was nothing but then my eye got extremely red and swollen around after 4 days when it look the even worst i when to my optometrist and the check my eyes and   told me that i looked like an infection but that it was weird for it to only be in one eye. i then explain that i was been extremely careful not to touch my eyes with the same hand and i wash my hands after and before touching my eyes  then my optometrist said that it she wasn't completely sure of what it was and that it could be acute conjunctivitis or chlamydia and that she was going to give me medication for chlamydia, she prescribe me eye drops and azithromycin. i never had azithromycin before but it made me itchy and it made me vomit. i call her office the next day and she told me to stop taking it and to in the next day. the next day when i when in the next day i told her that my eye was hurting less and it was less itching, then she told me that the change was to small and that she was going to change my eye drops to treated my eyes for acute conjunctivitis. i then ask if it was contagious and if i could go back to work because i have a lot of contact with people and food at my work, she said that it was okay that it didn't seen contagious. i become a little bit less careful after that and am guessing that at some point i touch my other eye with the same hand, because the next morning my healthy pain free eye was red, hurting and feeling dry and watery at the same time. at this point i dont know what should i do.

[JohnHaganMD]

My suggestions would be to contact your family MD and ask for a referral to an ophthalmologist. Most eye infections occur in one, not both eyes. Chlamydia is not a common agent and often is sexually transmitted. It usually requires culture.  When found it requires checking for other sexually transmitted diseases in both the patient and the patient's sexual consorts. See this article:  http://reference.medscape.com/article/1203385-treatment

I strongly suggest you get in to see an ophthalmologist as your optom does not appear to understand chlamydia infections.