My Eye Experience
For those of you who do not know, I have allergies. Sometimes severe, sometimes minor, but ever present. But despite my years of experience with them I learned something new the other day. You can get cysts on your eye if your allergies get bad enough.
Last Saturday morning I woke up with what felt like an eyelash in my eye. After trying the pull-your-upper-lid-over-your-lower-lid trick it didn't go away, so I looked in a mirror to see what I could see. I had a small bump on my cornea. Weird, I thought That's new. I didn't give it too much thought throughout the day, but the scratchy something-in-my-eye feeling worsened. Saturday night I looked at it again. The bump was still there, but now there were three little blisters on it. I calmly walked to the computer and searched my symptoms. After a little reading I hoped that what I had was a simple scratch. The other options were having something lodged in my eye or Syphilis. How would I explain Syphilis to my mother?
"Mom, it was a public restroom on a college campus. There's all sorts of diseases on the toilet seats there."
Sunday morning I woke up to the pleasant sight of an additional blister, for a total of four. Great So I went to Walmart and got some Clear Eyes eye drops. By the end of the day the blisters were gone but the bump remained.
Monday I went in to the student health center and got checked out. There diagnosis? Go see a doctor. Go now. Comforting So I went to the eye doctor, thoughts of syphilis and cancer running through my head. (I know I didn't mention cancer as a possibility and as far as I know it wasn't. But that's the type of person I am.) The eye doctor is a sweet woman who looked at my eye for about half a minute and spent the rest of the minute looking at the insides of my lower eyelids. She said "You have allergies. Bad ones." Which brings me all the way to what I said at the beginning of this post. Apparently you can get cysts on your eye from bad allergies. I got free eye drops and the cyst went away later that day.
End of experience.
Last Saturday morning I woke up with what felt like an eyelash in my eye. After trying the pull-your-upper-lid-over-your-lower-lid trick it didn't go away, so I looked in a mirror to see what I could see. I had a small bump on my cornea. Weird, I thought That's new. I didn't give it too much thought throughout the day, but the scratchy something-in-my-eye feeling worsened. Saturday night I looked at it again. The bump was still there, but now there were three little blisters on it. I calmly walked to the computer and searched my symptoms. After a little reading I hoped that what I had was a simple scratch. The other options were having something lodged in my eye or Syphilis. How would I explain Syphilis to my mother?
"Mom, it was a public restroom on a college campus. There's all sorts of diseases on the toilet seats there."
Sunday morning I woke up to the pleasant sight of an additional blister, for a total of four. Great So I went to Walmart and got some Clear Eyes eye drops. By the end of the day the blisters were gone but the bump remained.
Monday I went in to the student health center and got checked out. There diagnosis? Go see a doctor. Go now. Comforting So I went to the eye doctor, thoughts of syphilis and cancer running through my head. (I know I didn't mention cancer as a possibility and as far as I know it wasn't. But that's the type of person I am.) The eye doctor is a sweet woman who looked at my eye for about half a minute and spent the rest of the minute looking at the insides of my lower eyelids. She said "You have allergies. Bad ones." Which brings me all the way to what I said at the beginning of this post. Apparently you can get cysts on your eye from bad allergies. I got free eye drops and the cyst went away later that day.
End of experience.
A post! An actual post!!! It's amazing...
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