Scleritis

[lethargic_man]

(wub, perhaps stop reading now...)

I woke up in the middle of the night with my right eye hurting. So I did what you do when your eye hurts and squeezed it shut. The result: instant agony, so bad I was considering ringing NHS Direct in the middle of the night. But eventually it eased off and I went back to bed.

Then my alarm went off, I woke up, felt pain in my right eye and squeeze it shut, and exactly the same happens all over again.

The doctor says I've got scleritis with possible conjunctivitis; and that I should wash my eye four times a day in salt water, and it'll get better in two or three days (though she also gave me a prescription for antibiotics if it doesn't).

The funny thing is that as the doctor's poking around in my eye (and I'm huddling in a corner going "aaargh!" because someone's poking in my eye), she says "What are you worried about?" as if it's a strange thing to have pain in your eye and be worried. If I'd not gone to the doctor, how was I to know there wouldn't be permanent damage? *shrug* Go figure.

Then I get to work, and my cow-orker wants me to wear an eye-patch and talk like a pirate, just because. The "because" being as follows:

Image under Creative Commons licence; taken from FSM via Wikipedia.

"Hmm," observes my other cow-orker. "It's been rather cold the last few years, and what have you noticed happening off the coast of Somalia? Piracy!" :o)

Comments

[wub.livejournal.com]

I kept reading. :) Good luck in clearing up the infection! I've also had pirate encouragement as a result of my eye troubles... ;)

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

I am sorry to hear that you have a problem with your eye. Can you see at least? I hope it is getting better soon.

It sounds like Monty Python your NHS treatment and comments of your doctor.

[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Monty Python would have properly make it even worth. They might ad that the doctor actually damaged the person's eye and blinded him and the doctor comments: "What are you worried about? You still have another eye."

You seem be perfectly all right when I saw you yesterday.

[iddewes]

hope your eyes are better soon!!!

[curious-reader.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia makes you a woman. It explains under scleritis that mostly young woman get it and they connect it with menstruation.