Infrequent stabbing pain — very brief — in eye. Anyone else?

I get dry eye extremely bad when sleeping at night. When I wake up and open my eyes it’s extremely painful, like having sand in your eyes. I just keep a bottle of eye drops on the nightstand at all times and it immediately alleviates the problem.

I don’t get dry eyes, so I don’t think that’s what is causing this. The key words here are I think. Maybe they’re dry and I just don’t realize it?

I haven’t seen my eye doc because, well you know, covid. The stabbing pain just happened again, it’s the third time since I started this thread:

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I’m calling my eye doc on Monday.

Thank you for this. You may live in an uncaring world, but I, at least, appreciate your talents.

Agree with the others: get seen by a good ophthalmologist.

There are any number of – for example – corneal issues that could present like this. You need to be checked.

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