Question:
anyone ever get coldsore/herpes really close to your eye? i have one under my tearduct, and got meds for it. My eyes have been watering constantly because of a minor cold i have, but i notice a pink spot on my eye today, it just looks bloodshot, but i can't find out what the start of occular herpes looks like, i've only seen really bad cases in pictures...damn this sure sucks

Answer:
Hi,

I know a girl who constantly have herpes outbreak right under her left eye ( and on her chin). She's been having it for years, but seems like she never got it in her eye.

The pictures (on the internet or else) shows the very worst case.
I don't think that you should be scared of it so much.. It could be some kind of your body reaction, because you have a minor cold...

But.. if you still suspect the pink spot, maybe you should go see a doctor to find out if there is something you can do proactively.

Please take care..

Faith

Answer:
Yeah, I'm not sure...

One time I had a little tiny 'something' on my lower eyelid.

I thought it was maybe a HSV blister...

It went away, and I've never had one since, so I'm not sure...

In anycase, I didn't take any medical action about it.

Answer:
vision is nothing to mess around with. I should know after almost losing mine to herpetic keratitis. It started during a very stressful period about 2 years ago. Being a pre-med student, thinking I was smarter than God, I neglected to go the doctor, believing that I had pink-eye (bacterial), when my eye became swollen, painful and produced a discharge several days after I experienced a "foreign body" sensation in my left eye. When it didn't respond to antibiotics, and became increasingly painful and disruptive to my life. When I went to the ER and told the resident that about the symptoms I had been having, and that they had been getting prgressively worse over the course of more than a week, he became alarmed, immediately got on the phone and arranged for me to meet with a ophthalmologist 20 miles up the road right away (it was 3 AM!!). I had never heard of herpetic keratitis, but I spent the next 2 months fighting it with an intense course of oral anti-viral therapy and topical drops to try to save my vision. I learned that if the dendritic (branching like limbs of a tree) pattern of the infection is allowed to go unchecked for a long enough period of time, and layers of the cornea are sufficiently penetrated, vision loss is sure to result from the scarring that takes place. I was luckier than a lot of folks who wait to have this condition treated. The cornea is avascular, and has no ability to repair itself once damaged. Nothing short of a corneal transplant will restore vision, which can become permanently blurry or lost altogether from this infection. There are hallmarks of this infection to help one distinguish it from a less serious conjunctivitis which would normally run a short course and clear up without long-term damage with or without treatment. If you know you are a carrier of HSV-I or HSV-II, seek medical attention immediately if you have symptoms of pink-eye AND any of the following 1) extreme sensitivity of the affected eye to the sun or artificial light 2) aching/burning pain in the affected eye that is intense and ongoing, as an outbreak anywhere else on your body would be 3) blurry vision, that rapidly gets worse as it becomes almost impossible to focus even when the eye is clear of discharge. It almost always stays confined to one eye, and isn't spread to the other with external contact, although a secondary infection may occur from rubbing/touching the eye, which is a natural response to the pain and discomfort, but a double-edged sword! This was one of the scariest things I ever went through, and I have shared my story in hopes of educating fellow HSV sufferers. I hope the information I have provided saves someone their eyesight, which I have come to value a great deal more after my experience with this evil virus.