Pain in Blind Eye
Hi All,
I apologise if this question has already been asked at all. I am a 24 year old female who has been blind in my right eye since age 7, total loss of vision in eye aged 10. I was born with an under developed optical nerve that overstretched and is no longer functioning after a skull fracture and TBI at 10. (I honestly don’t know the technical medical term anymore.)
Now, due to this, I am used to eye strain, pain and general irritation due to left eye working overtime etc. but recently my blind eye has been…annoying.
It feels like it is aching, twitching or pulsing in the socket… my eyelid and like eye socket cavity / behind my eye feel very painful, kind of like that part of my face in particular has a dull headache of its own. It waters when I go out in the sun, and I feel I need to squint it to block light even though it takes no light in.
i wear my glasses and prescription sunglasses diligently and use a basic sterile lubricating eye-drop once a day. I’ve never noticed this many issues with it, but I’m always having to be in and out of the doctors, and I honestly don’t feel like going again, so should I honestly go to the doctor for this or is this just a normal amount of eye strain that occurs as I age and things become more noticeable?
I also have small vessel vasculitis, so I am unsure if that is causing this or not either.
Thank you in advance for any advice or suggestions.