Pain in my eye balls

[sarmad786]

Hi there will be much appreciated if someone can kindly tell me as since last 3-weeks i am having pain in my both eye balls it doesnt go slightly pain is always there my job is quiet stress aswell is this because of stress and yesterday i had pain like someone shot me on the side of my forehead pain came for abt 2 seconds and gone i felt like i have been shot..........?????????????? please help thanks

[merryBe]

as I said above, some of what I mentioned is very rare Sarmad, however, I knew I was forgetting something so I just went and checked....funny how reading the whole black box warning years ago can tickle the little grey cells...

anyway, the black box on Riba also says there is a chance of severe retina detachments in rare cases.

ergo...you really do need to get checked by your doc...even if your vision appears normal severe eye pain is not something to sneeze at.

Not trying to scare you here, just saying, err on the side of caution and get checked out.
mb

[fretboard]

I had trouble with pain on my eyeballs as well.  That said, optical complications are rare with HepC tx.  You should talk to your doctor about it as maybe something could be prescribed for the pain.  Also, you want to make sure you're drinking at least a half gallon of water and koolaid and soda or coffee don't count.  good luck

[merryBe]

there are lots of reasons why you could be having eye pain.
one common problem is that both sinuses and lymph nodes can become irritated and enlarged as a result of the INF levels. As your body adjusts this would subside.

riba also has in common with aphetamines the effect of making the brain more hyperactive and unsettled.  What you are describing sounds like a vascular headache, (usually coffee brings this on as it changes the degree of vacular dialation to head, a 10% change is what caffiene causes, and that can cause sharp pain at the temples,
since the riba makes you speedy, try cutting back on your coffee, tea, or soda pop, anything with caffiene in it, and see if that helps.
However, cutting back too fast if you are used to caffiene can also cause bad headaches.

but with the eye pain too I'd say see your doctor.  Why?

Often folks have sinus infections and don't even know it, and if something exaccerbated it it could spell trouble.  Rarely, enough puss can form behind the eye to do damage to it and/or to the brain, so if this does not settle down soon I'd go to a ornithologist real soon so they can rule out anything life threatening. That's an eye ear nose and throat guy. Again, this is RARE, but not unheard of.

Do any of your other glands feel swollen, like under your jaw bone, behind the ear?? under the arms, behind the knee??

[meakea]

I had sore eyeballs when I first started treatment...maybe for about the first month or so.  It hurt to move them side to side or up and down and it hurt to touch them.  I went to my eye doc and he did another complete exam on me (I also had one just before I started treatment) and he didn't find anything wrong other than dry eyes.  I used refresh tears many times a day throughout the rest of my treatment and it helped.

If your pain continues, please see your eye doc just to make sure.

[carol411]

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/Eye-pressure/show/1015162

Here's a link to a post that discusses eye problems while treating Hep C.  But if you include more information, maybe you could get more help.  Do you have Hep C?  Are you in treatment for Hep C?  More information would be a big help.

Carol