While I don’t recommend having a “Google” for medical self diagnosis (there’s a lot of duff forum posts), I couldn’t find that many posts on how people have recovered from an abrasion. Here’s one post to address that imbalance…
On Tuesday 12th July my son accidently kicked me in the right eye during a nappy change. For the first 30 minutes I couldn’t feel any pain, but my vision had a disturbing tint of white. It was like looking through a steamed up windows.
The pain kicked in after about 1 hour, but I didn’t want to visit the hospital as I assumed it’s one of those things that will be okay after an hour or two.
Three hours later my Mrs drove us all to accident and emergency at the hospital. During the ride to the hospital and walking to A&E, the pain we so immense that I couldn’t open either eye,
The doctor squirted a few drops of some pain killer into my eye and I could open both eyes without any pain. It was amazing stuff. Following that he examined my eye for any internal damage (thankfully not finding anything) then put a few drops of some orange substance (fluorescein) in it. The fluorescein makes any corneal abrasions turn green.
The doctor rather worryingly said my abrasion was the size of Africa (meaning it was quite large). It was a round abrasion 3mm in diameter. With permission, I managed to take a picture of his notes…
Chloramphenicol which had to be applied 4 times a day for 5 days. I was asked to return on Thursday (2 days later) for a check up.
Just before leaving the hospital, my wife took this picture. The green is caused by the fluorescein. The dark green is my iris and the light green is the area with the abrasion.
The doctor had lead me to believe the pain would be unbearable that night, but I was more worried about losing my vision. Don't get me wrong, it was painful - I was doped up on Paracetamol and Ibuprofen most of the time. I found Ibuprofen gave the most relief. Made a mistake on the first evening by not applying the medicine.
During the next 48 hours my vision was very blurred and tear ducts where working overtime. I spent most of the time with my eye shut, as it felt better.
The drive to hospital on Thursday was painful, thankfully my wife drove the car. The sunlight was hurting my eye. Bloody typical – British summers aren’t usually that sunny unless your recovering from a cornea abrasion!
The doctor applied some more fluorescein, and said that the abrasion had mostly recovered. Only three small pin pick holes remained. My vision was still blurred.
The following Tuesday (1 week after the accident), I still had blurred vision. Being a IT professional in front of a monitor for 8 hours a day was unbearable. I arranged a visit to my local General Practitioner.
He performed another fluorescein test, and said my cornea didn’t have any abrasions. Quite worrying considering my (long and short sighted) vision was still blurred.
It’s 2 weeks since the accident. I think my vision is getting better in my eye. But it’s difficult to say. I’m booked into see the ophthalmologist this Thursday (16 days after the accident).
I’ll update this blog when I’ve got more news.
- Update 27/07/2011 - I could resist searching the Internet for my blurred vision. Came across this page, which describes Cornea Endema (swelling of the Cornea). The cornea is made of 5 layers, if fluid gets between these layers, it can cause blurred vision. Muro 128 ointment can be used to draw out this fluid (here's a bit more info). Wonder if the opthamologist says the same thing tomorrow...
- Update 30/07/2011 - Visited the ophthalmologist a couple of days ago. While there's no serious issues with my eye, he said that the top layers of the cornea typically repair themselves after 2-3 days, but the lower layers can take several weeks. Not totally sure why, but he recommended a use Viscotears (typically used to treat dry syndrome) for 6 weeks, even though I've no history of dry eye or pain.
I must admit that my vision is getting better in my eye. Based on my experience of a large cornea abrasion...
- Days 1-2: Experienced the most pain. Had to keep my eye shut due to the pain. Found Ibuprofen helped better than paracetamol.
- Days 3: Top layer of cornea about 97% repaired. No pain unless exposed to bright sunlight.
- Week 1: No pain, just blurred vision.
- Weeks 2-3: Blurred vision improving.
This has happened to me twice - Childs hand and kitten scratch - the first was relatively ok. The second I wound up spending a week in perfect darkness as any light made me scream with pain. Both times I went to the local eye hospital and was treated exactly as you describe. Ibuprofen and paracetamol helped.
ReplyDeleteThanks your detailed experience helped me a lot.
ReplyDeleteI has a corneal abrasion in my right eye(3mm diameter in line of vision) about 12 days ago & my vision is improving slowly.(still little blurry)
I had perfect vision before the abrasion but my ophthalmologist is trying to convince me that I must had numbers before the accident and mustn't have noticed & that 12 days is more than enough and my vision will remain the same i.e. not improve any further. He is not ready to listen to me & is bent on giving me specs, but I'm going wait for another few weeks before deciding.
Anyways, thanks a lot for sharing your experience. :)
Glad my post helped. 12 days isn't long for a full recovery, but the pain should have disappeared.
ReplyDeleteFor several months after the accident I had blurred vision. I borrowed my grans old pair for pin hole glasses (http://www.myopia.org/cataracts.htm) which improved my vision, but they looked daft and I'd rather have blurred vision.
It took about 6-8 months for a full recovery. From what I've read on the Internet, I'm lucky, as severe cornea abrasions are often prone to recurrent cornea abrasions. Depending on the number of recurrent cornea abrasions, determines how long it'll take for full recovery.
Good luck with the recovery!
So glad to find your blog. I started day 3 of my recovery today at 1pm, and while the intense, almost enough to drive me mad, pain is mostly gone, I still have the sensation of something small in my eye when I blink, my eye is still quite red, blurred vision, and light (including looking at my computer screen) is quite uncomfortable. I have two young children and the thought of this recurring or not fully recovering has me taking xanax for anxiety. Please tell me the surreal sensation (from a skewed perspective) goes away relatively quickly.
ReplyDeleteThis has been a very scary experience for me!
Hi Sonia - 3 days isn't that long to recover from an abrasion. As it's now been nearly 2 months, I'd expect you'll nearly be back to normal (depending on how badly it was damaged). It's amazing how the body can heal itself.
ReplyDeleteIn September I visited the opticians for eye test, as I was still paranoid about my eye being blurred (>12 months after the accident). I had perfect vision in both eyes, but I did struggle a tiny bit with a red/green light test in one eye. http://www.specsavers.co.uk/ask-the-optician/red-and-green-test/. It's difficult to say if this was an issue before the accident or not.
The main this is to not panic about an abrasion until several months after the accident (easier said than done!)
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ReplyDeleteReading your account of the abrasion is like deja vu to me! A few months ago my newborn daughter accidentally (or on purpose!?) nicked a 3mm chunk out of my eye with her razor thin fingernails. The pain was unbearable as you said, so I got it checked out, and was prescribed antibiotic drops and antibiotic gel. After about 3 days I was mostly healed. I actually suffered no vision loss or any blurriness the first time. Several weeks went by and everything was good, until one morning when I woke up to a sharp pain in the same eye. It was very sharp as i opened my eye, and it felt as if there was a tiny piece of something stuck to my eyelid. The pain went away after about an hour. A few nights later, the same thing happened again. Again, pain subsided after an hour or two. However, 3 days ago it happened again, but this time something was different. The pain was worse than even the first time I had the abrasion. I made an appointment to see my optometrist, but the earliest they had a doc in was 2 days later. After toughing it out the first night while applying the leftover antibiotic drops I had from the last incident, I woke up again to a sharp popping pain in my eye...worsening my condition. I only slept about an hour that night because the pain was so bad, so I had my mom come over to watch my baby while I tried to take a nap. Unfortunately, I woke up about 4 times in 3 hours while napping, each time to a new sharp pain as I snapped my eye open. I decided to call around and find if there were any optometrists available ASAP as I wanted to rip my eye out the pain was so bad. Luckilly someone cancelled a 5pm appointment and were able to slip me in. As you said, the pain drops worked WONDERS as it got rid of all the pain in about 20 seconds. This visit determined that a smaller 2mm chunk was taken out of the cornea, but somehow it was much more painful. I was diagnosed with recurrent corneal abrasion. They gave me what he called a "bandage contact" that I was able to wear overnight so that my eyelids aren't scraping against the abrasion. I slept about 11 hours because of my lack of sleep the previous night, and I didn't have any pain with the contact in. I had a follow up appointment today to see if it was healed, and they said it wasnt fully healed yet, and gave me another bandage contact to wear until my next appointment in 2 days. My vision has been blurry since this second injury and that's why I was searching around for others experiences on the matter since I didn't have any blurriness the first time. My fingers are crossed for a full heal this time! I can't deal with the recurrent abrasions any longer! I may end up buying night and day contacts i can sleep in just so I don't have this happen again.
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill for sharing your experience! I was fortunate to not suffer from recurrent abrasions, after a bit of research they're surprisingly common. Hope you make a full recovery soon.
ReplyDeleteI went to the hospital to see a specialist because my optician considered my eye pressure a little high. I went in with sight, I came out in severe pain - the nurse had put drops in my eyes and then did a test with an item pen shaped attached to a machine, she appeared to have trouble getting a reading at the top of my left eye - I was then taken to see the doctor, she started to look at my eyes through a piece of machinery and then asked me if my eye felt irritated - yep it felt a bit gritty - she then informed me that I had an abrasion on my cornea, ointment was put in my eye, a covering was put over my eye and I was told it would be painful and if it wasn't better by Saturday to call the out of hours doctor - for two days I could virtually see nothing I was unable to work and now a week later my eye feels gritty and I get some blurring from time to time especially when using the computer (part of my job!!! ) no follow up treatment was suggested - I do have an appointment in June - she did not want to see me too soon to allow my eye to settle down. Now in a delema do I try to get another appointment with her which is a long way to drive, do I go to my optician, do I go to the doctor or am I just panicking needlessly
ReplyDeleteWhat exactly happened to your eye that made you go in to get it looked at. Did you injure it somehow?
DeleteThis is very useful. My question is about energy and recovery. I accidentally dropped some car keys into my eye--or maybe I just haven't been green eough and was being punished! There was a large corneal abrasion. I saw a walk in clinic doctor that night, another the next morning. Four days later a lot of tearing and still painful, so I went to the hospital, which referred me to an eye specialist. The top layer of the cornea and been scratched but not peeled away, so that was causing the pain. The doctor peeled off the layer and, within a few days, my sight had returned to normal. HOWEVER, not my ability to handle light, and my energy levels. Sunglasses and dim rooms help now, two weeks later. Bright light makes my bad eye tear. That I expected. What I did not expect was how much energy it seems to take to heal. If I use my eye too much one day, the next day I'm totally exhausted and just sleep. Is that normal? I'm 68, so I don't heal like I used to.
ReplyDeleteHi Victor. Once the cornea is damaged it can suffer from recurrent corneal erosion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent_corneal_erosion). If possible, I'd recommend a visit to the ophthalmologist, as recurrent tearing is not a pleasant experience.
ReplyDeletei experience the same as yours, now i'm in stage blurred vision, eventhough my cornea had healed, luckily google directs me to this page,
ReplyDeletei felt relieved knowing that it will improved overtime, as i'm an IT engineer too that need to keep looking at monitor..
Thanks.
Here I am 10 months later, and I have bad news :( After going for so long with minimal eye issues, it seems to have happened again in the same exact spot. I've been sleeping with nighttime contacts a majority of every week because I still fear of another corneal abrasion being ripped open, and ill sleep without them for a few nights a week. Yesterday morning i woke up, took my contacts out, and felt a rip. My eye went bloodshot and I was having the same eye pain I'm too familiar with. Booked an appointment today with eye doc, and I fear my only last resort is surgery considering the bandage contacts, antibiotics, etc didn't work for me. I'll keep you updated!
ReplyDeleteHi Bill,
DeleteI had a corneal abrasion on 20 dec 2015. Since then I am on bandage contact lens after debridements. Vision is less blurred now but still not fully clear. I am on antibiotics, betnesol, Refresh Tear and Hypersol 5 (to avoid Recurrent ersion) eye drops.
Please let me know how are you now? Is it fully healed now?
Unfortunately it's still not 100%, and I'm not sure when it will be :-/. Luckily I haven't had the ripping issue in the past year, but if I am sleeping with pressure on that eye, and wake up I can have eye pain that lasts for only about 5-10 mom's after waking. It's hard to describe the pain because it's not unbearable like the rip, but it feels like there's a small debris in the eye. Fortunately the eye doc said my condition is extremely rare, so you shouldn't expect it to happen to you. Best of luck with the healing! The eye is supposed to heal very rapidly so it shouldn't take you too long to get back to normal.
Deleteglad this worked out for you...this is definitely painful
ReplyDeleteThanks Bill. For me its almost healed(not fully yet) and bandage lens was removed yesterday to avoid infection. Wishing you all the best for complete recovery.
ReplyDeleteHi Gary.. A great blog indeed.. I suffered corneal abrasion from an accident two weeks back and now, im left with the blurring in the right eye.. My doctor told me to give it a month or two.. How can i make sure that it ll heal completely or is there anything i can do to make thw blurness go away quickly
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ReplyDeleteThanks for your reply Bill..
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome. I luckily haven't had any issues for about the past year. Let me know if you need any advice.
DeleteIts been over a month since the accident and now i seriously dont see any impeovement with the opacity.. I still have blurred vision both with short and long sight and the worst part is i honestly don't know if it has imporved or is the same.. I am planning to visit my doctor next week.. Is there any other option that i ahould try like steroid drops or may be ever laser treatment to get rid of the scar tissues and get done with this opacity or should i give it some more time? Any suggestions will be helpful
ReplyDeleteTime is really the only thing that will fix it. Laser treatment isn't designed to fix corneal abrasions. Took my eye several years to heal fully.
ReplyDeletehi i suffered with a corneal erosion out of the blue end of febuary this year it has been a nightmare 4 emergency appointments a debriment etc and putting gel in every two hours frightened to go to sleep! i started using munro 128 shipped over from america it worked and i was 6 weeks without an erosion but today its ripped as i woke thismorning reminding me that i will have a lifetime of trying to manage this horrid condition :(
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear that. I was in the same exact boat as you. While it did take a very long time (2 years), I am finally at the point where I'm not afraid to open my eyes in the morning. It will fully heal, but just have to suffer through it unfortunately :-/
DeleteReally .please reply ,do you take vitamin a to make it heal faster ?
DeleteThanks for this blog, I too just suffered a corneal abrasion. I also work in IT, i am back to work now after 5 days of rest. Vision is still pretty blurry. I hope my vision can start improving after week one. will keep on updating my progress.
ReplyDeleteI suffered a corneal abrasion on Sat 5th of August and I also work in IT! I did it while gardening and saw a nurse at an NHS walk in centre, then saw my GP on Monday morning and he got me an emergency appt at the local hospital eye clinic as he thought there might have been something embedded in the eye (it was incredibly painful). The Ophthalmologist said the problem I had was that the corneal scratch had jagged edges which made it extra painful - so she actually TRIMMED the edges of the scratch with a q-tip type device, absolutely amazing. Still hurts but feels like it is getting better - except that my vision in that eye remains extremely blurred. She told me to go back if it was still a problem after 48 hours.
ReplyDeleteI stratched my eyes qith fingernail in early july ,now its a month and it still not heal , i ca see clear within 2 or 3 metera only ,farther than that things are blurred . I used up all my eye drops ,i ve been taking fish oil for 2 weeks now . When will it heal ? Can somebody help ? I also practise my eye under the sun everyday .going to hospital is too expensive .please help thanks
ReplyDeleteI'd seek a medical professional (even though it costs money) rather than get advice from randoms on the Internet. However, from my experience it takes time to heal. I recall it taking months for my recovery. Drops work well and I'd try get some more if I was you.
DeleteI didn't take any vitamins. Unless it's making no improvement whatsoever, I'd take my time with it.
I did go to hospital ,doctors said it was fine. but i have corneal abrasion every 10 days or so ,WHETHER I use eye drops or not ,fish oil or not . it reoccurs every 10 days I think . Do you come in contact with the sun often ? I train my eye under the sun everyday to make it heal faster
DeleteHi all, I hope this blog is still active. I suffered a chemical burn to my cornea which
ReplyDeletedissolved the epithelium layer. I was in extreme pain and went to the opthomogist immediately. They put me on antibiotic drops and steroid drops to reduce the irritation. Those first few days my vision was practically blind! I also had LASIK in the past which I'm wondering is an issue. Fortunately it was only one eye that was injured, but I am still super worried. Over the first two weeks my layer completely healed and the pain subsided ( it was excruciating the first week)
However, it is now one month later and my vision improvement has plateaued. I had 20/20 after my lasik in 2012. Now I cannot read the second line of letters on the test, and have some double vision in that eye! I've seen this opth about 7 times since the injury and he told me my vision should be better by now, but also seemed unconcerned and said perhaps my previous prescription wasn't as good as I remembered. This made me angry and I got my records form thr lasik dr to send to them. He said I don't need to come back for a month but I think I need a second opinion. I have headaches from my trying to focus all the time ( I'm an artist and dancer). I'm concerned maybe my lasik flap is affected, but he said he doesn't see that. (They do perform lasik at this eye facility)
To make matters more annoying, the Eye Center whee I had my LASIK only deals with complications for 2 years afterward. They also don't really deal with ophthalmology or flap problems, they send you to another doctor! Has anyone experience blurriness, haziness, halos and ghosting ( double vision) after healing, a month later? I'm scared and I want a doctor to help me. No one seems concerned!! Thanks for any support. I'm in the nyc and CT area.
Sorry to hear about the injury. Your problem does sound similar to ours in regards to symptoms and pain as I had all of the above, but your problem also sounds a little different. I'm no expert, but if I were to guess, it's unrelated to the Lasik you had. Lasik generally manipulates inside the eye versus the corneal area. I've watched the surgery, and they actually slice the cornea open over the pupil and then use the laser inside. It sounds like your cornea hasn't fully healed from the chemical burn yet. It took me actual years for my eye to fully heal after the injury, so since it's only been a month, I'd give it a little more time to continue healing. Do you know what the chemical was by chance?
DeleteIt was benzoic acid , in a cosmetic . The lasik was done 6 years ago. My concern is that the flap may have been affected. This opth said he doesn't think so but it's possible, and wants me to come back in a month! I can't wait that long to see if something more is wrong. I think I'm going to try and see a cornea specialist but I need to find one in network , I can't afford to go without ins.
ReplyDeletePs forgot to mention: he said my cornea is fully healed. He thinks I only need steroids for the irritation and swelling ( which is now minimal) He said my vision should be better by now, which really concerns me. I had 20/20, and now I cannot read the second line on the chart. I also have severe ghosting. Especially with light. I see two of all numbers on my digital clocks, as well as traffic lights and any lit letters. Sometimes I cannot tell which is the real image, and that's frightening.
ReplyDeleteHi all,
ReplyDeleteGlad to have found this blog. Had chemical burn 12 days ago on both eyes from the anaesthetic salve used in an eyeliner tattoo procedure (still kicking myself for being vain). The abrasion on the left eye was deeper but the right one covered half the pupil. One week later the doc said the abrasions were mostly healed but the problem was my eyesight on the left had almost back to normal but the right worse than it was 3 days after the incident. My vision was and still is blurry, with ghosting.5 The doc said the signs seemed to be leading towards scarring right in front of the pupil. She got me to continue with antibiotic drops, lubricant drops, vitamin A and C, and ointment to "glue" my eyes shut at night to keep them lubricated. Now I'm worried because not only the right eye seems stagnant but the left seems to be going worse. Did any of you experience regression so long after the incident? I thought my vision with the blurred right eye was as worst as it would get, but now it's worse. Did your doctor ever mentioned scarring of the cornea to you?
Some insight would be greatly appreciated, thanks.
Sorry to hear about the injury. Every time i see a new story on this forum it brings me back to the terrible event haha. As for blurriness, it took me a few months for my vision to be back to what id consider "normal". That's not including when the injury would stick to my eyelid when i went to sleep and ripped open when I woke up even though i was using the the ointment and bandage contacts. In that case it took about 2 years for me to be not worried about opening my eyes in the morning. Yours was chemical though and mine was physical so healing times may vary. If you can avoid that torture id give it a few months before worrying too much. If it continues to get worse by the day it may be a separate issue that needs to be checked out. Keep us updated! I like to know when everyone is all better.
DeleteThanks for your reply, Bill.
DeleteThe regression seemed to be caused by my changing from prescription moisturizing eyedrop to an over the counter drop. I did make sure that the content was similar, but the over the counter one had a bit of preservatives in it. After switching back I felt better. Weird as I had never had problems with any kind of eyedrop or preservatives before.
Anyway, it's been 3 weeks now and overall my vision is better but the right one remains blurry.
Last weekend I went to another doctor for a second opinion and to my shock he said I had keratitis brought by viral infection (despite applying antibiotic drop every 15 minutes for the last 2 weeks!!). Said he saw little white spots but no corneal scarring. I don't know what to make of this. Anyway, am now on yet another antibiotic plus antivirus drop. I'll go back to my original doctor at the end of this week and see if she agrees with the new diagnosis.
Will keep you posted!
Wow. Just like an episode of "Monsters Inside Me." looking forward to hearing your results!
DeleteHi Bill! Sorry it's taken me so long to update, first I didn't want to jinx it and then I lost the link to the blog and only just now found it on google.
DeleteThe short of it is when I went back to my first doctor she disagreed that I've ever had a viral infection, and even though I could see so much better on the whole when tested my vision was actually worse than before. I strongly suspect it was from tiredness as I had been waiting for my turn at the hospital for 7 hours! Basically she said I still had the scars and she wanted to keep me on eyedrops and eye vitamins (with bilberry extract mostly) but nothing else. Still wanted me to come see her once a week, though! I decided that I was going to take the prescription but won't go back unless really necessary.
Now, 3 months after the incident my eyes are back to normal, I guess. Has been since early/mid May, iirc. My right eye has always been worse than the left so it remains like that. My vision is okay, as it was before, with glasses. The only thing is the eyes get tired easily and when they tire things get a bit blurry/foggy.
So, I'm keeping my fingers crossed nothing bad will happend again :)
Hi, I cannot believe this blog is still active! This has given me hope. Last Monday, my daughter stabbed me in the eye with her barbie doll's hand while we were playing. I went to urgent care and they told me I had a corneal abrasion the size of Alabama. They recommended I see an ophthalmologist and gave me a doctor. That first night I did not sleep at all and was in such severe pain I gave myself a migraine. I couldn't eat the next morning and threw up several times. I decided to call my optometrist since the ophthalmologist they recommended didn't open until 1pm! My optometrist was able to see me at 10:30a and said it was a deep abrasion covering over 40% of my cornea. He prescribed me some antibiotic/steroid drops (Neomycin and Poly B and Dexamethasone) and told me to use a bacitracin/zinc, poly b ointment at night.
ReplyDeleteThe first day on the drops was terrible, but the next day almost all pain was gone. I was able to keep my eye open with sunglasses. The following day I went back to work. I am also an IT professional and stare at a screen all day. This proved extremely difficult because while my eye didn't hurt, the screen was very blurry. The Friday at work was the same. I was unable to drive myself for two days.
The weekend helped as I didn't have to stare at a screen all day, however, the vision was still very blurry. It has now been over a week and my vision has not improved since the third day (at least not that I can notice). I am very worried the vision problem is going to be permanent. I do not want to have surgery, I just want to get better. I go back to the doctor today and am hoping to get some answers.
Regardless, reading this post has given me hope since many of you have experienced similar things. I am not looking forward to a 6 month recovery as the author of this blog stated it took, but if that allows my eye to recover and my vision to recover, I will be extremely thankful. Thank you to all of you for sharing your stories and allowing me to feel like I am not alone in experiencing this. I spent the last week looking up information online and seeing it should only take 2-3 days to heal unless there is a major problem... probably the worst thing one can do, but I did find this blog and it has given me much hope. Thank you.
my wife has abrasion in her left eye due to minor accident, she was hit by sudden opening of the air bag, her left eye is still sensitive to light and with blur sight, she passed through the same pain as most of you, she had lasek 3 years back, not sure how that gona affect the recovery, the doctor put contact lens on her eye, we have appointment on 2nd may , lets see how it goes.
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Deleteso she is using Fluorometholone 0.1% (steriod drops) since May. she is 95 % cured but still have the scar, doctor said the scar is likely to remain permanently, next appointment is in september,
DeleteThe best source of information on corneal abrasion healing process I've found on internet. Thank you for sharing your experience. All the best!! By the way, love your writing is pretty clear and precise.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I found this. I was diagnosed with a corneal abrasion three months ago. I thought everything was fine. I woke up this morning and it was like the first day all over again. The main thing I'm glad about is, it seem like a long healing process, isn't out of the norm.
ReplyDeleteYeah it's a pretty terrible experience. Keep pushing through it and one day you will actually reach the point where you aren't afraid to open your eyes when you wake up!
DeleteMore than likely you are experiencing recurrent corneal erosions. My injury was also three months ago and about a month after the injury I was experiencing similar things upon waking. The ophthalmologist diagnosed me with RCE and said to use Muro 128 ointment at bedtime for 6 months and artificial tears during the day. I use preservative free drops 4 to 5 times a day and the ointment at night. I highly recommend seeing an opthalmologist.
DeleteIf you are tearing it open again, they will either treat you with lubrication or debride the loose epithelium (top layer of cornea) and give you a contact lense to wear while healing. I hear this is painful, but works really well to fix the issue. Luckily for me, the Muro ointment is working very well at night. I haven't had any more issues with the pain, but now develop styes because of the ointment. Either way, I would rather have that than the pain of the injury all over again!
I hope this is helpful. You are not alone with this issue..it's very common after an abrasion. If you don't want to go back to the doctor, you can get the muro ointment OTC or simply use any night time ointment to see if it helps. One day it will be better, or so I am told. Hang in there!
Thank you to this site for not making me feel alone. After Dr. told me I probably just didn't notice blurr in my eye before injury. It has been 6 months and I still have days where my eye is very BLURRY!
ReplyDeleteand by the way, has this happened to anyone else? I am worried it will never heal where I can see like I did before the injury. Any good news would be Encouraging!
ReplyDeleteIt took mine several years to fully heal. It will eventually go back to normal where you won't be sleeping in fear of waking up and ripping it open again.
ReplyDeleteHi Bill,
DeleteMay I ask how you are able to tell that you have fully healed? And also do you face any other problem since then? I am really scared after reading that it can recur even years after the injury, and many people who no longer have symptoms can suddenly complain of pain again after many months. I recently had cornea abrasion 2.5 weeks ago. still seeing double vision despite doctor saying i am fully healed with just a small 'irregular patch' on the cornea. there is some pain when i wake up hence i think i will develop the recurrence in time to come, don't look forward to it.
Happy to say that I haven't had any issues in the past couple years. I can't believe how long its been since I posted my problem on this forum! Its hard to read all the new stories having been there before. However, I believe I know exactly the issue are referring to. For several years after the injury mostly healed, I would have slight pain in the eye when I woke up. It wasn't excruciating, but it was like a little sharp jab when you wake up in the morning that goes away in about 20 mins. Does this sound familiar? It was quite annoying and scared the hell out of me whenever it happened. Fortunately it didn't get much worse than that. If you have gone several months to a year without a major corneal rip after sleeping, you should be in the clear.
DeleteHi Bill, yes! I know that feeling of the little sharp jab thing. It is really very scary, do you still have it? Also 4 days ago my injury recurred at the same area and it was much more painful and lasted much longer than the original injury.
DeleteNo, No I don't have recurring corneal abrasion. I sill have blurred vision 6 months after a cornea abrasion. Finally I have an Appt. with a cornea specialist, I will try to post results so others won't be worried to death that we may have to live with this vision forever, like I have been for 6 months. Thank you for this site and the hope it has given me.
ReplyDeleteHow did it go with your apt?
DeleteSpecialist found cornea scar. Recommended contacts but I don't like them. He said cornea surgery could repair the blurriness BUT only do it as a very last resort.
DeleteHi everyone,
ReplyDeleteI'm the newest and injured member to the club!
Like everyone here, I just suffered from a corneal abrasion as per doctor's diagnose.
This happened this past Monday, Nov 5 from what doctor classified as chemical burn (soup from Asian spicy hot pot that hit my eye during dinner). Basically, no pain, just blurred vision. Cleaned my eyes immediately and felt better later that night.
By the next day, the blurry vision was better and the red eye was still so I went to emergency room. The doctors cleansed my eye with saline water for 15mins and concluded no foreign object left in my eye. Just an abrasion and gave me antibiotics and sent up an appoint for next week for follow up.
Now Nov 10, and my blurry vision is still there and dry eyes. No more red eye and continued with the antibiotics.
So when is this blurry vision going to past?? My eye seems better in the morning but still a bit blurry. By night time, the blurriness is more severe. I'm getting a little worried. From what I remember, before taking antibiotics, while waiting in the hospital, my blurriness wasn't too bad, as I could see quite far and had 3 eye exams from different doctors throughout the day. The doctors didn't seem too concerned about my vision and the ophthalmologist said my vision wasn't affected....
From what I read, I don't think I have any tissue scarring...no opaque spots in my eye. This dry and blurry eye is affecting my work...as I am also an IT professional.
It's only been five days, be patient. These things take time to heal. If you damaged your cornea at all, it is scabbing and probably trying to heal. Antibiotic drops also can cause dry eyes. When done with your treatment on that, it wouldn't hurt to try preservative free artificial tears to keep your eyes lubricated.
ReplyDeletehi all, my husband suffered a corneal abrasion which took around five days to “heal” . Although the doctor said it’s all healed up his vision is still blurry and he’s getting headaches, and is dizzy after staring at his computer screen. It seems like it’s draining his energy and I was wondering if this is a symptom anyone else has experienced?
ReplyDeleteI’ve had abrasions for 24 years, and for the last goodness knows how many years I can actually remember having them, yes they mke you very tired. They make you feel sleepy and it’s a big struggle to keep both eyes open together. I get very dizzy if I look up from my phone because if yo u think about it logically, really only one eye is actually focusing properly. I hope your husband recovers soon, it sure is miserable! Best wishes. X
DeleteHi everyone!
ReplyDeleteI’m the latest victim of a Corneal Abrasion, well... i’ll use that term loosely! I’ve suffered with abrasions for the last 24 years of my life, (I’m 24). I woke last Friday with the most hideous pain, worst pain I’ve ever had and I’ve had two babies, I knew what it was immediately. I rang my eye specialist at my local hospital and he agreed that I needed to be seen but he couldn’t fit me in until 5pm, I was honestly in indescribable pain and I was fully aware that this was the worst one I’ve ever had, by far. So off we go to the hospital and the EM eye doctor confirmed that it was an abrasion and that it was over 80% of my cornea and it’s gone right through my pupil area also. My vision is majorly blurry and I’m so so scared that the previous scar is going to rip again.
However, I’m commenting today to tell you all about XAILIN night ointment which if your in the UK is easily accessible through most pharmaceutical companies. It’s a lubricant for the eye that sits there all night, it does make your eye greasy but it’s well worth it for the long run. I’m on day 4 of this, nearly 5 with my checkup tomorrow and if I’m honest I won’t be surprised if it’s still pretty much the same. The pain is fading but my eyesight is pretty crappy still.
Wish you all well and I really hope everyone on here recovers well! X
How's your eyesight?
ReplyDeleteMy abrasion occurred Nov 5 and though my eyesight has improved, it feels like the improvement has plateaued. I am able to see things short distance, like reading from a computer monitor but reading anything 5~7 feet away, it starts to become blurry even though I can still make out the numbers / text on it. My ophthalmologist has cleared me but I forgot to ask him if I had any scars on my cornea. I only asked him if or when my blurriness will improve but he just said it varies from person to person.
Since you've had abrasions for 24 years, how long does your blurriness take for it to be considered "normal"?
Wondering if anyone is still out there, reading or responding to this thread. It gave me comfort from some of your stories, as I search for my own answers. Looking specifically for those who have experience with somewhat severe corneal abrasion and/or eye trauma that caused vision differences and more specifically near sightedness (difficulty seeing far away). I was in a car accident 5 weeks ago that was quite severe and despite having a tiny bit of near sightedness, I was 20/20 and didn’t wear or need glasses. The airbag hit me directly very hard and caused significant bruising and almost a totally loss of eyesight for a few days. I then came back at 20/200 and a few weeks later, my left eye (less severely injured) is 20/20 again but my right one (hit really hard and still a tiny bruised) is 20/40. I’ve now seen two
ReplyDeleteDoctors and am frustrated with my diagnosis because I don’t have much of one. I was told that my vision was like this probably before hand (spoiler alert-it wasn’t) and that I’ll now need glasses. My eyes still hurt and I’ve seen a difference in shifting from
Near and far too. They feel so strained even though the doctors say I have “healed.” My outer layer of corneas (epithelial layer) has healed and to my knowledge the damage didn’t go deeper but I can’t say for sure. I had severe edema (swelling), astigmatism and iritis which is supposedly mostly all gone. I want to know if there’s hope my vision will go back to normal. Anyone else have corneal abrasions that caused vision changes with a long time to heal?
From my own experience and several others I have read on this forum, vision is usually the last thing to fully return after an eye injury. The cornea (with the exception of recurrent corneal abrasions) heals within days, but vision seems to take months or even years. The fact that yours went from 20/200 to 20/40 in a few weeks sounds promising. I wouldn't worry too much for now as long as you aren't having eye pain, and perhaps just get temporary corrective contacts for that eye until it heals fully. I'm not a doctor so I'm not telling you that you must do this, but that's what I would do personally.
DeleteI also suffering a corneal abrasion, 4th day today, and i only visit the opthalmologist yesterday 3 days after s plactic hard rope accidentally hit my eye.. The doctor said i have a scratch inside my eye ball in the middle that is why im experiencing blurry vision and looks like i have something inside my eye that gaves me blured vision.. i feel pain it seems that some hair injecting inside my eye.. The opthalmologist ask me to have a Tobramycin antibiotic Eye drop for 1 week and with vitamins orally intake... Im so scared that it might last prolonged, that is why i keep on Looking for hope here in google about the same case of mine..
ReplyDeleteI think the best advice I can give you and anyone else on this forum is to be patient...trust the process... the cornea has several layers to it and while the top may heal quickly, the bottom may not...additionally you will have swelling for some time...vision is the last thing to come back...I am 10 months post my accident and it took about six months for my vision to return to normal...for some people on here it took longer... my other advice is that even after the doctor says it is healed, use a bland ointment at nighttime for a couple months so you do not end up with recurrent corneal erosions... I wish someone had told me that!
DeleteMe too having corneal abrasion.my niece accidentally hit with a stick in my right eye while playing.went to ophthalmologist and was healed but slightly blurred. Again after some days accidentally my finger touched the same eye and the doctor said to apply antibiotic drops for one day..but still blurriness was there.After a month I woke up with teary eyes. .but that went away..again after some days I couldn't open my right eyes and it was teary too..went to emergency. .referred to another ophthalmologist ..he patched my eyes with antibiotic and tear drops.now it's a week..yesterday patch was removed and placed bandage contact lens .it's heeling. .but blurriness still there..more than before.after reading understood that it will take little more months to heel..In Sha Allah..let's have patience..It's God who heel ..
ReplyDeleteHi Gary,
ReplyDeleteIm glad you had started this initiative of sharing experiences of people with Corneal Abrasion. This blog is quite informative and it does bring back hope to people going through the same.
I had accidentally scratched my cornea with my finger nail a week back and it had resulted in immense pain,tearing and causing blurred vision. I have already consulted my ophthalmologist thrice and she says my cornea is still healing and it would still take sometime for me to see clearly. Being very disappointed with the feedback of the doctors in Hungary as it is very difficult to communicate with them as most of them cannot communicate effectively in English is very disheartening and I was losing hope and having a notion that I could ever be able to see clearly again.
This blog with so many experiences has made me believe that getting back to normal vision after a corneal abrasion is possible.
All of the comments are really helpful!
Thank you
I got a small piece of metal in my cornea. My vision with the metal was still fine, other than I could see a small blurred spot where it was. Went to the Urgent Car center where a doctor attempted to remove the metal by rubbing at it with a q-tip! This caused an abrasion and I then could not see out of the eye, it was like looking through a foggy window.
ReplyDeleteShe referred me to the Opth, and he removed it and drilled out a small ring of rust. I asked him what the previous doc. had done to my eye and if that was permanent, He said she "scratched the surface" and that it should get better after a few days.
At the 3 day mark the pain was gone. Went to a separated Opth at the 3 day mark with blurry vision and he said the abrasion was healed but the eye was inflamed and gave me steroid drops. He assured me there would be no permanent damage.
I'm now at the 11 day mark and my vision is clear close up, but blurry at 10ft and beyond.
I spoke with the first Opth and he said maybe I've needed glasses all along and only realized now... I assured him that was absolutely not the case. He said, "Ok give it another week and let me know if it's not better."
Does anybody have a similar experience or advice?
Thanks!
Honestly, it could be weeks or months. Mine took 2 years to fully heal, but it sounds like mine was a bit worse than yours. It's a damn shame what that lady did to you. It's like she had no clue what she was doing. Best of luck!
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ReplyDeleteMe; dog paw to the eye 6 days ago, severe corneal abrasion over the center of my pupil. Days 1-2 really uncomfortable, could not keep eye open Vision very blurry. Day 3- marked improvement in pain and can keep eye open. Days 4-current vision blurry, slight discomfort as if I'm looking through very mild scar tissue. I'm pretty much wearing an eyepatch all the time because it is more comfortable for me to just use my one good eye. Going to see the eye doctor today, will post updates.
ReplyDeleteDid any of you happen to notice that your vision is a little worse in the morning and gets a little better as the day progresses? Went to the optometrist yesterday and was told my eye is likely a little bit swollen and this is causing the blurry vision. Everything appears to be properly healed and I was given steroid eye drops and told it should be better in a week.
ReplyDeleteFyi? The last 3 comments are all my story. Update 3. Day 7 after having used the steroid eye drops last night and all day today my vision is back to about 80% this evening. If you're suffering from blurred vision after your cornea heels your eyeball is likely swollen and needs the steroid eye drops so see your optometrist. I think I'll probably be back at 100% by the end of tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteUpdated 4 user name unknown. 2 weeks since dog paw to the eye and several corneal abrasion.
DeleteNo real Improvement. In the mornings my vision out of that eye is pretty bad towards the evening it gets a little better sometimes. I thought the steroid eye drops were helping but unfortunately that was not the case.
The brain gets a bit confused having one good eye and one bad eye so when I need to read something I just close my bad eye. From it's only really a nuisance when I need to focus in on something or watch TV...... whatever, I don't let things get me down! If it ever gets better I'll report back.
Update 5 , username unknown. My eye is 100% again no permanent damage. Took about a month to fully recover. If your vision is blurry after it heals get some moisturizing eye drops, put a few drops in and your eyesight will improve dramatically. Just make sure the eye drops are specifically meant to moisturize. This will get you by until your eye actually heals.
DeleteThought my story may be useful to anyone who comes across this blog, as I found it very useful and quite comforting when I was going through recovery.
ReplyDeleteOn 16 December 2019 I took a champagne cork point blank to my left eye - one that went off completely without warning! It just missed a direct hit but still I was immediately unable to see and just had white flashed everytime I blinked. I was abroad at the time but got treated the same evening and then came home the next day. I then saw the eye casualty team at the hospital in this country and was told it was a deep corneal abrasion and I was given both an ointment and cyclopentolate hydrochloride to keep the pupil dilated.
Two days later I felt it was getting worse and had another check up at the hospital, this time they told me it hadn’t healed properly and that the abrasion needed scraping away to allow it to heal properly. Hopefully this won’t happen to anyone else, as it was comfortably the worst pain I’ve ever felt once the anaesthetic wore off. I was sent home and essentially passed out, but was having to take the cyclopentolate 4 times a day which I’m told is a large dose.
All the advice online suggests that abrasions heal after a day or two and that cyclopentolate lasts 24 hours - this is not the case at all. I had another check up on Christmas Eve and the abrasion had largely healed but I couldn’t focus my left eye - it was like my eye muscles had stopped working. My pupil also remained huge - the size of my entire eye - up until about New Year’s Eve when it started to return to a normal size.
The blurriness was essentially whenever I looked at screens or lights - I could read but the edges of everything was blurred, and I could only see clearly at a distance of about 10 feet.
By the 2nd of Jan, I still couldn’t see anything in focus through my left eye so I went back to the hospital. They told me that my time before tear up (ie the time at which the eye starts to dry without blinking) was 3 seconds, with the average for a ‘normal’ eye being 14 seconds. However, I was told it would gradually return to normal.
However, as of today my eyesight is almost back to normal. I am taking a lubricating drop 6 times a day to keep my eye from reopening the abrasion (which I am told is common).
If I stare at a screen too long or I don’t use those drops regularly enough, the blurriness starts to come back. Otherwise, the blurriness is largely gone except for a few seconds after I wake up.
I think I got off pretty lightly but for anyone reading this - the advice online is for straightforward abrasions. The eye heals quickly but damages easily and it can take a long time - it has been almost 4 weeks since my accident. The best advice is to take it a day at a time, don’t rush it and if it isn’t healing properly, don’t hold back from going to see a specialist.
Hope that helps someone,
Thank you again for this site! I wish this complete site could be installed and available to patients in eye medics offices for patients to read. It seems medics the world over have the same answer for people who don't seem to get eyesight back soon! The Opth's also told me I probably had blurry vision before cornea scratch but just never noticed it!(WRONG) After 2 years and 2 pair of glasses, some days I have NO blurry vision in my right eye! I want to give hope to anyone that feels as panicked as I did 6 months after the injury.
ReplyDeleteI had a small bit grit go into my eye on Tuesday evening. Doctor came out early Wednesday morning and performed a full rinse and examination of my eye. He told me I had a small light corneal abrasion.
ReplyDeleteI was told this was only a minor one and was given antibiotic ointment. My top eyelid was swollen and my eye was very sensitive to light and blurry and tearing up.
Now it is Friday and the inflammation appears to have almost gone, no more sensitivity to light but is still blurry.
Contacted GP today and was told to give it another week before seeing a specialist, he said because mine was so small and not deep it was unlikely to cause lasting damage but I am still concerned about my vision :(
Don't worry you will be fine. Vision comes back pretty quickly :)
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ReplyDeleteSince my post I have developed double vision / ghosting in the affected eye
And it is still blurred
Anybody else had this with corneal abrasion?
does it go away and is it treatable?
Yes. I actually wore an eye patch for a few days because of that. Light was very blinding even though it wasn't that bright. I also had very blurry and double vision. It went away after a couple weeks (with the exception of my recurring abrasion).
DeleteThanks for your reply Bill0405. II hop you are well.
DeleteJust a quick update. I went to see a specialist a few days ago and the abrasion covers 40 percent of my cornea and across the pupil.
It is considered superficial on the surface of the eye. Still getting ghosting/double vison and my long distance vison is impaired.
I have been given a lubricant for it and was told it could take a month to heal for the abrasion itself.
Still very concerned about the double vison though, I really hope it fades.
How is your vision doing? Any improvements?
DeleteHi Bill0405. Update from Saturday 15 August 2020.
DeleteWent back to the eye specialist consultant (Optometrist) last week and was told the abrasion was almost healed. The abrasion covered 45 percent of my cornea but was only on the surface. Was told my vision would be completely back to normal in less than 2 weeks.
The ghosting/double vision has not improved. The blurry vision has has almost gone but I do tend to get a haze over my eye if I look at the computer screen for my than 10 minutes, this usually fades after several minutes.
At my last appointment there was no scaring and no ulceration. I am still using artificial tears 4 times per day and I am using VitA-Pos eye ointment for night time to prevent reoccurring erosion.
I addressed my concerns about the ghosting to the Optometrist and I was assured it would be gone but unfortunately it has not. So now they want me to undergo more tests. Cornea Topography and a Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography because of the ghosting.
I have spoken to 2 specialists about this, both the Optometrist and a Ophthalmologist and they both say completely different things about healing time and vision.
One says ghosting back to normal in a few weeks and the other says up to 8 weeks due to epithelium healing and remodeling.
So, to sum up blurriness has almost gone, close up vision almost back (with the exception of reading.) Ghosting still the same and long distance vision still impaired.
I am also suffering with dry eyes at night now since the abrasion three weeks ago. Both eyes tear up everytime I go to sleep and that never happened before.
Out of everything so far, it's the ghosting/double vision that worries me the most.
Hello everyone, there si very few information about cornea healing in the internet. 11 days ago, someone puts his cigarette into my eye by accident. Result= corneal abrasion, went to emergencies, the doctor told me that it’s superficial and puts me on antibiotics and lubrification. After 2 days, the pain was improving but my vision in my right eye was still blurry so I saw another ophtalmologist who puts me on
ReplyDeletesteroid eye drops for 8 another days to treat the inflammation. My treatment ends today, my vision has improved comparing to the first days, but it’s still quite blurry with double vision. I’m really worried about my vision, I fear not getting it back as it was before my accident. I’m 22 and I need my clear vision to study correctly. Waiting for your advices
The docs did all they could do to help. The vision will come back, but it just takes a little time. Also, I'd love to know how you get a cigarette "accidentally" into the eye! May I ask where you're from?
DeleteIt happened in a club ... I’m from Tunisia. I hope you’re right about the recovery, considering what I read here it took some time for everyone to get back their vision, but I can’t prevent myself from stressing about it.
DeleteMost of the people here that had the injury had it cut in some way, not burned so I'm not sure if healing or injury is a different process. Come back in 2 weeks and let us know if anything has improved. I suspect it will get better by then
DeleteHi.I completely understand where you are coming from with this. The vision side of things is the most scary part of the healing process. I am still currently going through this myself after three weeks.
ReplyDeleteThe pain and swelling goes pretty quickly but the vision is a slow one. What I have learned is everyone is different and some people heal faster than others.
There is a common theme in that it does seem to take quite a while for the vision to be completely restored and it often takes longer than many of the specialists suggest.
Double vision is awful and believe me I should know. I have always been very careful with my eyes until I had my first and only abrasion a few weeks ago.
Not many people seem to post on this blog these days but you are not alone and it's important to remember that.
Hey mate, thank you for your message, it helps a lot...
DeleteHope we heal from this, keep me posted.
hey everybody. it's a real relief to find this blog, it's nice to know you aren't alone and it honestly makes me feel like a hypochondriac.
ReplyDeletenine days ago a spark from a lighter flew into my right eye, immediately rinsed it out real good with water. my sclera was red but my iris and pupil seemed to be unfazed, my vision did not seem to be affected either but it did sting a bit and it felt like there was something suck in my eye. fast forward to now my eye is no longer red, it looks normal and i can see normally but the thing is it still feels like there is something there at times. it's an irritated, lingering feel that comes and goes even though my eye appears to look and see normally, it's sometimes accompanied with a headache.
i have been using eye drops, antibiotics to prevent bacterial infection, an eye patch, and sunglasses whenever i need to use both eyes. this is probably the lamest eye injury out of all of these other blog entries but what makes me post anyway is the fact that a few of the entries have claimed that the pain and irritation should be the first to go. it makes me feel like i should have healed already, especially since most online sources claim that superficial injuries should take about three days to heal and it's obviously been a bit longer than that.
again i apologize about the lame entry but i have thought about this every day since i have had my injury and it almost seems like my paranoia is torturing me more than the actual injury, every time i manage to get my mind to rest i get worked up about it again.
my curiosity is getting the best of me, i am very interested in hearing outside perspectives. i hope everyone is doing better and healing up well from there injuries, much love and stay safe everyone.
Have you considered that you may have an embedded piece of metal or flint in your eye? I didn't see you mention if you went into an eye doc to get it checked out. If you haven't I highly recommend you do so you don't further injure your eye. I'll keep tabs!
ReplyDeleteit was actually a push lighter with a piezo ignition rather than a flint one but that's something i should definitely consider, i have an appointment for an eye exam this evening so i'll make sure to keep you updated!
ReplyDeleteBest of luck!
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Delete(same comment, just correcting some errors.) hello again, thank you for your support. fortunately there were no foreign bodies. no permanent damage or signs of infection either, it turned out to be a conjunctival abrasion in the corner of my eye instead of a corneal one.
Deletei was prescribed erythromycin ophthalmic ointment, it was explained to me that the dull pain and uncomfortable feeling was my eye drying out. i would often wake up to returning pain because my eyelid would stick to my healing eye while i slept, the ointment should do a better job than the drops when it comes to keeping my eye moist.
my paranoia has calmed a bit and i have a follow up appointment on the 9th to see how the healing is going. best of luck to everybody!
Glad to hear your problem isn't a serious one. That is exactly what happened to me, except on my cornea! Recurrent corneal abrasion. Scroll on up to much much earlier in the blog and you can see my process over the years. Its a long one. Enjoy!
DeleteGlad to hear your problem isn't a serious one. That is exactly what happened to me, except on my cornea! Recurrent corneal abrasion. Scroll on up to much much earlier in the blog and you can see my process over the years. Its a long one. Enjoy!
ReplyDeleteHey Bill, how long did your RCE take to heal? I have been episode free for over 2 years, but I still put lubricating ointment in every night because I'm afraid of it happening again. My Ophthalmologist said I can do that as long as I want, but it probably wasn't necessary. Every time I want to try and risk it, I chicken out because I remember the pain.
DeleteOh wow you really are being careful aren't you! I don't blame you because it was pretty terrible. I would say I stopped needing the ointment after about 2-3 months. Occasionally for the several months after I stopped using it, there were instances where if it was a dry night my eye might feel a tiny little pain, but it would never fully rip open anymore. It's been many years since it's happened to me and my eye is 100%. I would suggest at (your own risk of course :-p) trying to sleep without the ointment. 2 years episode free should be plenty more than enough time to not have to worry about it. Then you won't have to wake up every day cleaning that goop out of your eyelashes! Hoping to hear good things from you soon! (Btw like you, it took me 3 or 4 years to forget about the fear of pain waking up.) Now sleep is good.
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ReplyDeletewow, just read last post????? This place was a lifesaver to me a few years ago cause I was so worried when I injured my cornea. It's been 3years since cornea scratch by a tree branch and still have days with a blurry eye! but it is Improving!
ReplyDeleteI just wrote my story and it didn't post. Shoot. I'll write few words then. June 2nd, I got a stick from the garden in the eye. Went to the urgent care and she sent me to the Hospital. Doctor said it was a corneal ulcer and told me to see an ophtalmologist asap. I went in the next morning and he gave me antibiotics and put a contact lense to protect the cornea. Removed the contact lense 5 days later. Time passes...I feel something in my eye. Feels like the cornea is detaching. So I go back to the ophtalmo. He said that part of the contact lense was stuck in my eye and it was scarring around it. He never saw that in 35 years. Wow..I'm lucky. Removing it was the worst pain in my entire life. Giving birth is much more easy. Then I got some follow-ups appointments. Now he says I have little white dots on my cornea and he doesn't know why it doesn't go away. Gave me steroids for 2 weeks. He said it might be a degenerative disease (dystrophy) but strangely I had nothing before and my other eye is perfect. Dystrophy is bilateral. So he sends me to see a cornea specialist. He says I should see clearly now. I am 6 weeks post first trauma and 4 weeks post contact lense removal trauma...I don't know what to think about it all. It stresses me out like crazy. Thanks for this blog. It relieves my anxiety by a lot.
ReplyDeleteSomething may be wrong with the forum because I typed up a whole response, clicked preview, and it deleted my type and now I have to retype too. Ugh...
DeleteI have a love/hate relationship with this forum because I am curious to read others experiences, but I also remember how painful it was for me and am sympathetic to the newbies. I do recall that sharp pain when the bandage contact would heal to my eye and I had to rip it off. Are you sure the phrase "Corneal ulcer" was what the diagnosis was? Usually they say its a corneal abrasion. One thing you may also want to consider is a possible parasite of some sort. I watch a show called "Monsters Inside Me", and sometimes people will be gardening, cut themselves or injure their eye, and sometimes get infected by either a virus, bacteria, or parasite. Antibiotics will only take care of one of those. The white dots growing sounds very strange to me. How is your vision now post trauma? Is it cloudy/hazy? Still have any light sensativity/headaches? For some here including myself, this injury can take 1 or more years to heal.
Something may be wrong with the forum because I typed up a whole response, clicked preview, and it deleted my type and now I have to retype too. Ugh...
ReplyDeleteI have a love/hate relationship with this forum because I am curious to read others experiences, but I also remember how painful it was for me and am sympathetic to the newbies. I do recall that sharp pain when the bandage contact would heal to my eye and I had to rip it off. Are you sure the phrase "Corneal ulcer" was what the diagnosis was? Usually they say its a corneal abrasion. One thing you may also want to consider is a possible parasite of some sort. I watch a show called "Monsters Inside Me", and sometimes people will be gardening, cut themselves or injure their eye, and sometimes get infected by either a virus, bacteria, or parasite. Antibiotics will only take care of one of those. The white dots growing sounds very strange to me. How is your vision now post trauma? Is it cloudy/hazy? Still have any light sensativity/headaches? For some here including myself, this injury can take 1 or more years to heal.
Yes so the ER doctor said Ulcer but the ophthalmologist said erosion.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the white dots. They are not growing they are just there and haven't changed in the last 3 weeks. The doctor said yesterday that my vision was better and I feel like it is better. It is far from perfect thought. And what he says about the disease I have 0 other symptoms. He did not bring the white spots until 3 weeks ago...anyway I can't wait to see the corneal specialist.
For 1 year you has blurry vision?
ReplyDeleteI don't have any sensitivity to light or headaches at this point...only the blurriness that drives me crazy.
I didn't have blurry vision for 1 year, but I had recurrent corneal abrasions that kept happening on and off for over a year. Scroll up and read my initial story. I go into great detail lol.
DeleteOh wow..yes I remember your story now. I read this blog a hundred times already. I found out yesterday that my eye drops WITH preservatives might be the cause of the white dots. Nice that my doctor never mentioned to use eye drops WITHOUT preservatives. The research is clear about that. I'll see in a few days if that makes a difference..fingers crossed
ReplyDeleteBest of luck. My fingers are crossed for ya!
Deletethanks :)
Delete2022! Suffered a deep corneal abrasion on 03/29-- red, watery eyes, eyelid swelling, blurriness, light sensitivity, and extreme pain when blinking. Went immediately to urgent care and prescribed with Polytrim antibiotic. After one night of awful pain, I have felt better and each and every day. However, blurryness/ghosting effect has remained. As a previous poster stated, the affected eye's vision is blurry when staring at anything farther away than 10 feet. Near vision is back to normal. Will monitor closely and provide updates as things change.
ReplyDeleteMy 2 year old gave me a severe cornea abrasion in my direct view. Got through epithelium, bowmans and into some of stroma layer. I'm two weeks and two days out from injury. Had contact bandage for first several days. Did antibiotics and now on steroid. Vision improved some but still blurry/halo effect. Had 20/15 in the eye he hit which is my dominant eye. Dr. says epithelium is healed it's up to stroma and how it heals. Kind of bunched up. I'm hoping it doesn't scar too bad but time will tell.
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