Last night a friend noticed my eye was bloodshot. When I looked in the mirror, it looked as if the inside of my eye was bleeding. This morning it looks as if it has spread to 80% of my eye and I feel like I should be wearing vampire teeth. The funny thing is that although I have a slight ache in the eye area, there are no other symptoms.
It looks ghastly. I definitely don’t want to be seen in public. But I have to work and a patch would probably make me look worse (Although looking like Darryl Hannah whistling that tune in Kill Bill does have a certain temptation). Does anyone know what this is? What I should watch out for? How long until it goes away? Is there is any way to make this look better? Maybe visine? Cucumbers?
That was my first thought. Since I have no insurance I don’t like to go to the doctor’s office unecessarily so I call “Ask a Nurse” first. They told me it was something that a doctor couldn’t do anything about. Possibly a burst blood vessel. Which is why I am posting here. If it might be something a bit more serious I would like to know. If not, then maybe a tip on how to help it go away would be helpful. I know there are some doctors here and it would ease my mind to know I was doing the right thing. Of course if it could be an aneurism, I would go to the doctors right away.
I’ve had this happen a couple of times, once during a really bad fight with the flu. (I lost.) After copious amounts of vomit, I look in the mirror and one of my eyes has gone red. :eek: “I’m dying! It’s Ebola! ARRRRrrrgggggghhh!”
Doc said it was a Subconjunctival hemorrhage - basically, a burst tiny little blood vessel from the violent barfing episode. It went away in about 5 days as the blood was reabsorbed by my body.
But my eye didn’t hurt, just felt a little sore (but so did everything else). If you have pain, please see a doctor.
Yep, probably a broken blood vessel in the eye. Like DeVena said, you can get them fairly easily during coughing fits or really nasty vomitting episodes. Basically if the blood pressure in your head gets too high, the blood escapes in the easiest way it can find, hence the hemorrhage in the eye. It’s nasty looking, but as long as your resting blood pressure is normal, you should be fine. As always, get a doctor to look at it.
-Lil