Oceanbreeze
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First, I want to give a shout out to Mrs Bucket for creating her thread on Sjogern's Syndrome. Had she not done so, I might've ignored my gritty (now watery) eyes.
I've been experiencing the gritty, dry eyes for several days now, and it was becoming more than annoying. Since Thanksgiving was coming up, and things in my household has been rather stressful, I decided to put off going to the Dr. I've been using OTC eye drops to treat the gritty feeling instead. Today, I went to the Dr and I've got allergic conjunctivitis; better known as pink eye caused by allergies. I'm well aquainted with the symptoms of bacterial pink eye (AKA bacterial conjunctivitis) because I'm around school age kids a good deal of the time, and, they catch things like this often. Once they get it, I get it. Anyway, I noticed the classic gritty feeling of pink eye and then the watering that went with it, BUT, I didn't have the telltale "pink eye" look. So, I just ignored it until I couldn't anymore.
Turns out, my eyes are very slightly pink, and the allergic conjunctivitis has to pass on it's on. I have to keep doing what I've been doing. Since it's not being caused by bacteria or a virus, he didn't give me anything.
What a pain, but, I'm glad it wasn't something much, much worse. I'm just thankful for that little paranoid voice in my head that said "Gritty dry eyes? Go get this checked!" I owe Mrs Bucket a heap of thanks to make me aware of some of the more serious causes of something that is minor most of the time.
MB!
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/allergies/basics/678.html
I've been experiencing the gritty, dry eyes for several days now, and it was becoming more than annoying. Since Thanksgiving was coming up, and things in my household has been rather stressful, I decided to put off going to the Dr. I've been using OTC eye drops to treat the gritty feeling instead. Today, I went to the Dr and I've got allergic conjunctivitis; better known as pink eye caused by allergies. I'm well aquainted with the symptoms of bacterial pink eye (AKA bacterial conjunctivitis) because I'm around school age kids a good deal of the time, and, they catch things like this often. Once they get it, I get it. Anyway, I noticed the classic gritty feeling of pink eye and then the watering that went with it, BUT, I didn't have the telltale "pink eye" look. So, I just ignored it until I couldn't anymore.
Turns out, my eyes are very slightly pink, and the allergic conjunctivitis has to pass on it's on. I have to keep doing what I've been doing. Since it's not being caused by bacteria or a virus, he didn't give me anything.
What a pain, but, I'm glad it wasn't something much, much worse. I'm just thankful for that little paranoid voice in my head that said "Gritty dry eyes? Go get this checked!" I owe Mrs Bucket a heap of thanks to make me aware of some of the more serious causes of something that is minor most of the time.
MB!
http://familydoctor.org/online/famdocen/home/common/allergies/basics/678.html