Scratched Cornea
I didn't get any sleep the night before last. I awoke early in the night during a dream about having a throbbing scab on my eye. When I awoke from my couple of hours of sleep, I quickly realized that the painful eye was not just in my dream. My eye was actually throbbing in my waking life. I shouldn't really call it "throbbing" because the frequency of the throbs was much slower than you think of when you hear about throbbing pain. It was really a ten second extremely painful period followed by about 30 seconds of very little pain. Although a slow throb, it continued at this frequency and severity which made sleep impossible. I got up immediately when I awoke from this dream so I could check my eye. It was all red, irritated, but I saw no obvious problems. For a little while, I assumed that perhaps I was developing Conjunctivitis. I washed my eye with eye wash and then used some Natural Tears. Both of these products stung terribly. After lying in bed, awak