Light sensitivity for 8 weeks now!!

[Diesel26]

8 weeks ago I had a severe accident and broke my nose and cheekbone.  I also cracked the bone on the outside edge of my eye but did NOT hurt the socket of my eye and did NOT have my oribital floor or walls break also did NOT injury the eye itsself.  I had 2 plates put on the outside of my head near eye and one for my cheekbone.  I also had to have nose rebuilt.  I had one opthalmologist see me 2 days after surgery and said everything was healthy.  Seen her again 3 weeks later and she said everything was healthy.  Went and seen a neuro- opthalmologist that my ENT doctor recommends and he said everything was very healthy and my intercranial pressures for both eyes was healthy.  My retina was healthy and my optic nerve was healthy.  My eye had no inflammation and no concerns at all.  Tear production and draining are correct and healthy.  My pupil does react with no concerns to light and darkeness the same as my good eye.  I have had light senstivity since the accident real bad in my eye that all the surgeries happened to.  I'm testing at 20/30 to 20/40 vision but vision is not clear in eye like my good eye.  It is not blurry or doulble vision or that I have dark spots in it.  It is just hard to see with any light around  especially halogen office lights.  I'm wondering what is causing this and worst case how long it will take to go away. I'm wondering if it is caused by all the swelling I had from my injury causing my eye to send to my brain signals that it has inflammation around it and in the sinus cause I had alot of swelling around eye, nose, and cheekbone area.  The major swelling has subsided but am told there is underlying swelling but I can feel alot disappearing cause it moves thru my face and then disappears. I've always had perfect vision and it is just nerve racking and bothersome that my eye is acting up.

[Diesel26]

Light sensitivity is only in one eye. The one where I had all injuries around. Other eye is fine and sees perfect.

[Diesel26]

Also forgot not taking any medications and I do get 8 hours of sleep every night and have not had any symptoms of anything else.

[Diesel26]

Was lite up for four days straight having whole body watched to make sure I was healthy other than injuries. All docs said I was healthy. Yesterday I had underline swelling move from behind nose to cheek to upper lip then back to behind nose. This lasted several hours. As it was doing this the swelling would get less.  Depending on where it moved to my light sensitivity would get worse (behind or around nose) then would get less sensitive (upper lip).  This is why I'm wondering if it is swelling causing this.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
What you have is probably photophobia or increased sensitivity to light. Retinal detachment (this also causes flashes of light), iritis, uveitis, optic neuritis, corneal ulcerations and other afflictions of cornea, and cataracts are a few eye related causes for increased sensitivity to light. However, all seem to have been ruled out in your case.
It can be due to nervous system disorders like herniation of tonsils or Chiari malformation, meningitis and encephalitis. The latter two you obviously do not have as you do not have any other symptoms, however, there is no harm in reconfirming with a neurologist. Chiari malformation can be diagnosed by a MRI of the brain.
Other than that it can be a symptom of migraine, retinal migraine, ophthalmic migraine, magnesium deficiency, infectious mononucleosis (if you have a recent history of flu like symptoms), chronic fatigue syndrome, hangover, side effects of certain drugs (if you are taking any—please get this assessed)etc.
Do discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined. Take care!