Eye Ulcer

**consoles** · 4th May 2013

Anyone else here had an eye ulcer before? Feck me it hurts, like having a bag of grit in your eye.

just hoping it dosnt get infected as apparently they can get nasty leading to loss of sight :S

**Mickey** · 5th May 2013

Moved to the clinic section

**Mario87** · 5th May 2013

I have mate, had 3 of them on my iris at the same time when I was younger. Went to the eye clinic and was given eye drops to use, my optician says that even today (some 10 years or so since I had them) there are still 3 little scars on my iris that will be there for life. Had they been on my pupil I could have lost around 95% of my vision from that eye.

I know it hurts like a bitch mate, but go to the docs and get them to refer you to the eye clinic. Think it takes a few weeks for them to go with the eye drops they give you, but it does certainly work, and luckily they did not effect my vision.

**beaconboy** · 5th May 2013

i had one a few years ago from wearing my monthly contact lenses for too long ! i went to the doctors and was sent straight to the eye hospital ...they told me that it was eating into my eye and i was about 2 days from losing the sight in my eye ! i had to put drops in my eye on the hour every hour for 24 hours without fail ,,,after that i had to use a creme for a few weeks ....My eyesight was blurred for about 3 months but eventually came back ....i now use daily lenses and have never had another problem ....

**Mario87** · 5th May 2013

Beaconboy, funnily enough mine was also caused by contacts as well. Only wear glasses now myself. I did switch to daily disposable after, but decided my eye sight wasn't worth the risk.

**consoles** · 5th May 2013

yer, mines due to contacts, 6am - 10-11pm for nine years so i suppose it was only a matter of time.
Today the grittyness has eased, still know its there with the odd tingle, but using drops every hour, optician this morning said its looking better to continue the drops for 5 days and no contacts for 3 weeks.

like said above if it had been on my pupil optician said id have lost some vision as they leave a perm scar. deffo thinking about daily's now or at least take them out when i get home from work instead of wearing them 12+ hours.

**big-paul** · 5th May 2013

I had something similar when I wore contacts. Probably not as careful in cleaning them etc as I should have been tbh. So glad I opted for lasik in the end. Hope it gets better mate.