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Pain in top eyelid when I gently touch upper right hand corner of the eyelid
I have dry eyes in both of my eyes. However, I feel pain coming from top eyelid of my right eye when I gently touch it, and feel pain when I blink. The pain is in one spot of the top eyelid. The pain spot it the to right hand corner of the right eye (corner away from the nose).
Keep in mind that the pain is in one single spot of top eyelid. Meaning, if I gently touch any other part of top eyelid of the right eye, I DO NOT feel any pain. The pain is coming only form one spot which is top right hand corner of the eye.
I also feel the spot to be little tense and a little swollen, but if someone were to do a visual inspection of top eyelid of the right eye, then that person may not see it's swollen. It's so tiny.
I have gone to 5 different eye doctors about this and they just dismiss it without examining my eyelid.
They will do retinal scan, take a picture of my cornea and just say your eye is healthy. But I am in unbearable pain coming from top eyelid of my right eye.
I don't know what type of tests I can even request from the doctor or what type of doctor to even see
I know there are ultrasound scans of the eye that can be done, but I don't know if any ultrasound scan will catch why I feel pain coming from the eyelid.
So what tests or scans are there to get my eyelid checked to find out as to why I feel pain coming from that one spot of the top eyelid?
Keep in mind that the pain is in one single spot of top eyelid. Meaning, if I gently touch any other part of top eyelid of the right eye, I DO NOT feel any pain. The pain is coming only form one spot which is top right hand corner of the eye.
I also feel the spot to be little tense and a little swollen, but if someone were to do a visual inspection of top eyelid of the right eye, then that person may not see it's swollen. It's so tiny.
I have gone to 5 different eye doctors about this and they just dismiss it without examining my eyelid.
They will do retinal scan, take a picture of my cornea and just say your eye is healthy. But I am in unbearable pain coming from top eyelid of my right eye.
I don't know what type of tests I can even request from the doctor or what type of doctor to even see
I know there are ultrasound scans of the eye that can be done, but I don't know if any ultrasound scan will catch why I feel pain coming from the eyelid.
So what tests or scans are there to get my eyelid checked to find out as to why I feel pain coming from that one spot of the top eyelid?
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Your description is almost a classic for a small stye/meibomian gland infection, or an infected chalazion. It is unbelieveable that with these complaints that 5 eye doctors did not examine your eyelid (it also needs to be 'flipped' to see the backside of the eyelid. I would see an ophthalmologist, tell him/her that you have had multiple tests on the eye, that the pain is coming from the eyelid, you want to rule out a stye, chalazion, meibomian abscess. Tell them no special tests, palpage the lid, use the microscope to examine the lid and 'flip or evert the lid to see the backside.
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