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by explosivelies on December 9th, 2006

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Every morning when I wake up my eyes are bloodshot red. I wash my face and blink a couple of times and it gets better but you could still see some red veins. I've tried some eye drops, but they don't seem to work. I've had this for 2 months now. HELP!

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  • by mandrake99 on December 20th, 2006

    mandrake99

    Its probably dry eyes.

    At night tear production reduces. Some people even sleep with their eyes half open!

    There are lots of things you can do.

    Check out this web page.

    This explains what it could be
    http://www.insider-guide-to-reading-glasses.com/dry-eyes.html

    This explains what you can do about it
    http://www.insider-guide-to-reading-glasses.com/simple-dry-eye-management.html

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  • by bigkado69 on December 9th, 2006

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    im kinda having the same problem and i need to know 2..lol i need some kind of eyedrops or something ..i feel like im goin blind and im strainin my eyes allot

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  • by drewber09 on August 20th, 2008

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    I have had the same issue for the past 2 months. It seems to only be accuring at my house. When I sleep at a friends or another house I have no issue. But if I am at my house my eyes are completely blood Shot int he morning and nothing takes it away.

    Was reading about Allergy to Dust Mites as a possible diagnosis.

    Antihistamine do nothing though so not so sure. Doctor said the same thing as above. You have dry eyes nothing can be done.

    But if it only happens at my house and not my parents or a hotel then it must be allergies. I would check this and see if anything changes in different situations.

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  • by Razzer on April 6th, 2008

    Razzer

    Its probabley a mixture of dry eyes and stress.

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  • by Azraff on December 9th, 2006

    Azraff

    How much sleep do you get? I know someone with the same problem and they simply don't sleep enough. Also, being around smoking is not good.

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  • by manoj on October 2nd, 2008

    manoj

    I've been facing the red-eyes issue for over 5months now..no matter how much i try to take care of them..the problem only worsens...i was also told by an opthalmologist to introduce artificial tears ,thrice a day..didnt work!..i have treied to tackle this issue in every posible way..but to no avail..it makes my eyes look droopy and although i get a good 7-8 hour sleep,my face looks a bit sleepy...

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  • by Anonymous on February 13th, 2008

    Anonymous

    I've been having the same issue for about a year. I told my eye doctor about it but he said it's dry eye's and to use artificial tears. It works for about 5 minutes and then goes back to the burning and redness. When I wake up, they are so red it's ridiculous...Even using drops then, they stay red. I did read online that a humidifier may help. I'm thinking that I'll get one for next to my bed and my desk at work. We'll see.

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  • by estuped on May 24th, 2009

    estuped

    just have someone read something to you about red eyes. by the time they're done reading it to you. you're eyes should be clean.
    no thanks necessary!!

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  • by thomasspafford on November 21st, 2009

    thomasspafford

    I have the same condition. Red eyes, frequent gumming on the eyes, eye pain.

    My opthamologist said I had rosacea and that in some persons, the rosacea extends to the inner eye membranes.

    Look up "ocular rosacea"

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  • by Wind in the Willow on June 14th, 2009

    Wind in the Willow

    Besides your eyes being dry, it could be too many internet hours (guilty). I read that you need to use artificial tears 4 times a day. Don't use the get the red out ones because your eyes will rebel with bigger veins. I saw this question because my one eye was so red for a week.

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  • by explosivelies on December 9th, 2006

    explosivelies

    thanks, but i did see a doctor. she told me things i already knew. she gaave me these eye drops, but they don't really work. i try not to go on the computer these days only for research and homework. and i've been taking naps often to rest my eyes. nothing that i do seems to work. i'm very desperate to find a cure.

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  • by jpaul on November 6th, 2008

    jpaul

    I have the same problem. It doesn't happen when I am away from home. I keep thinking its allergies to dust mites and feather pillows. Everyone thinks I am crazy.

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  • by JUSTNORMAL on December 9th, 2006

    JUSTNORMAL

    It could be a number of things, such as allergies, lack of sleep, or staring at a monitor for hours then going to bed. If by chance there is any discharge, or your lids are stuck together please see an eye doctor. In both your cases you may want to see an eye doctor anyway, just to be safe.

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  • by mike.macneal on October 21st, 2010

    mike.macneal

    ok this is my story, for the past 2 years i have had red eye problems, it would start with me waking up and my eyes being a little red but would go away throughout the day, then slowly the redness got worse. this is when the crusting started, every morning i would need to wash the crust off of my eyes. i could barely open them. after a few months of using clear eyes with no effect i went to the opthamologist and he determined i had tine cuts all over my eye and there was an infection, he prescribed tobradex and antibiotic eye drop and it cleared it almost instantly.. the first time.. after using the drops for the recommended amount of time the redness went away. but after so long the problem would come back, the redness would start then the crusting. i go back get more antibiotic eye drops and even oral antibiotics, it goes away a little slower but comes back again. finally it went away for about 6-8 months, and 4 days ago woke up with a little redness but it slowly went away, today im in so much pain i want to jump off a bridge, the redness the pain the crust, and the worst part of the styes, there are about 5 plus in each eye, they are on my eyelids on the inside and it feels like there are large objects in my eye at all time, im going to the doctor again for more antibiotics but its not solving the problem, i cant handle this anymore im tryng to go to college but it so hard to concentrate when it hurts all the time and people stare at you funny all the time, no im not high just have an awful eye infection!!!

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  • by mike.macneal on October 21st, 2010

    mike.macneal

    ok this is my story, for the past 2 years i have had red eye problems, it would start with me waking up and my eyes being a little red but would go away throughout the day, then slowly the redness got worse. this is when the crusting started, every morning i would need to wash the crust off of my eyes. i could barely open them. after a few months of using clear eyes with no effect i went to the opthamologist and he determined i had tine cuts all over my eye and there was an infection, he prescribed tobradex and antibiotic eye drop and it cleared it almost instantly.. the first time.. after using the drops for the recommended amount of time the redness went away. but after so long the problem would come back, the redness would start then the crusting. i go back get more antibiotic eye drops and even oral antibiotics, it goes away a little slower but comes back again. finally it went away for about 6-8 months, and 4 days ago woke up with a little redness but it slowly went away, today im in so much pain i want to jump off a bridge, the redness the pain the crust, and the worst part of the styes, there are about 5 plus in each eye, they are on my eyelids on the inside and it feels like there are large objects in my eye at all time, im going to the doctor again for more antibiotics but its not solving the problem, i cant handle this anymore im tryng to go to college but it so hard to concentrate when it hurts all the time and people stare at you funny all the time, no im not high just have an awful eye infection!!!

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  • by BloodShotEyes on September 3rd, 2010

    BloodShotEyes

    Welcome to the Club I have the same problem for 9 months, I have been seeing Eye Dr.'s and still haven't had any luck. I just saw a Dr for Allergy's and had a skin test done. So I come to find out I am allergic to Dust, Maple Tree, and Ash Tree so they think these allergies is what has caused my eyes to be so blood shot. I don't smoke pot and I am accused by everyone who see's my eyes that I have to be stoned or something. This is a terrible thing to have. I have had this problem for 2yrs on and off now but have had it for the last 9 months. I have used every eye drop prescribed and all over the counter allegry medicines still have had no luck. So I know what your going through. This really sucks. Go to an Allergist and get tested for Allergies. It could be caused by dust mites. That's what they say is causing my eyes to be so blood shot read. Never in my life had I had this problem. I am 29 yrs old. And I have to wear sun glasses all the time because I am tired of people looking at me funny because of my blood shot eyes and people constantly asking me why my eyes are so red. I've been seeing Eye Dr's for almost 2 yrs and they have yet to solve my problem. I am hoping when I go back to the Dr. in 2 weeks they can finally solve this problem with my eyes now knowing what Is causing my allergies.

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  • by samira20902 on January 7th, 2010

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  • by citizen.dos on November 16th, 2010

    citizen.dos

    Everyone is focusing on the eyes. There is another possibility, kidneys.

    Do this, get a blacklight and shine it on your eyes while looking in the mirror. Look at the sclera (the white part of your eyeball). Are there places around the cornea on the sclera that glow much brighter? Compare your eyes to someone elses. You'll find they do not have these brighter glowing areas. These bright areas are actually calcium phosphate deposits. If your kidneys are not working perfectly, chemicals in your body go out of balance and do bad things to your body. In this case, your calcium serum and phosphate levels are going high and eventually precipitating (building up) in small capillaries, in this case, your eyes. Your lucky :( This is a terrific early indicator of a much more serious problem.

    Now, why are your eyes so bad after sleeping. Well, it isn't the sleeping it is the lying down on your back or side. Try lying down for an hour in the day, you'll probably see your eyes go red then. While you are experimenting, stay up later, drinking nothing at all, and give your body time to eliminate as many fluids as possible... ie go pee and make sure you don't have to pee anymore before lying down. Now, goto sleep on your stomach. Your eyes will not be as red in the morning. Why? Probably because you have Reflux nephropathy. That means one or both valves in your ureters isn't closing off and urine is back-flowing from your bladder back up those tubes (ureters) to your kidneys and your blood becomes much more acidic as a result. That is your blood has a low pH level, while your urine has a high pH level. Acidosis is going to create all sorts of irritation and inflammation in your body. Wait a few more years of this and you will begin experiencing tremendous fatigue. This backflow of urine is damaging the filtering components of your kidneys.

    Oh, and don't count on your general practitioner, internal medicine, opthamologist, or even a urologist to help you at this stage. They'll just treat you like your nuts You really should get to a nephrologist and have very thorough, 24hr, or more tests done. Short of surgery that might fix the valves, there isn't much that can be done... except understanding the problem and adjusting your diet, sleeping style, etc.

    Citizen Dos

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  • by IrishStorm on January 22nd, 2012

    IrishStorm

    Some people get sunburn on their eyes, maybe you spend too much time in front of a computer without a uv filter. Ask your doc if you can try steroid drop for a few weeks. Use sunglasses all the time that have %100 UV protection, you can find UV glasses that arent sunglasses for indoors or to work on your computer. If this doesn't work then try an antiviral or an antibiotic drop for a loger period of time. Do not use any artifical tears that have preservatives in them. Try Genteal. Never use any kind of drop for red eyes because they only make it better for a day and you end up needing it more and more. Fungal infections also exsit, but I dont know much about those, google it.

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  • by EnglishMacGuiness on May 2nd, 2012

    EnglishMacGuiness

    If there are no results from a western medical approach you might find an answer with Traditional Chinese Medicine. This worked for me after two months of unsuccessful visits to my family physician.

    Through TCM I was diagnosed with local tension behind the eyes and neck that was constricting the vessels in the eyes when I would lie down for extended periods. Thus red blood shot eyes when I would awake. The doctor I saw for treatment had successfully treated this many times with acupuncture and a simple change of pillow to release the burden of the neck muscles with proper support during sleep. I use the Bucky Duo Buckwheat bed pillow and it's great.

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  • by Jmat75 on March 22nd, 2012

    Jmat75

    I was diagnosed with ocular rosacea. Rosacea is a condition that causes facial flushing and broken blood vessels in the face. It can affect the eyes causing redness, itchiness, gritty feeling, crusty eyes in the morning, etc. My eye doc gave me steroid eye drops that helped but when it returned I went to a dermatologist to treat the root cause - rosacea. He put me on an antibiotic for three months. It worked for my eyes but made my skin breakout horrendously. I stopped taking it midway without talking to the dermatologist and now my eyes are bad again. Guess I should have just dealt with the breakouts because my eyes are more bothersome than zits. If you are suffering from bloodshot crusty eyes, ask your eye doctor if it could be ocular rosacea. Don't just assume its allergies.

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  • by Matt_T2149 on February 25th, 2012

    Matt_T2149

    My eye had this something-stuck-in-it sensation for several weeks, it is tremendously annoying to feel like there is something stuck in your eye that you can't get it out for 24 hours of the day lol!! I actually did feel suicidal with it lol as it is that annoying. When there is nothing that can be done with it it just drives ya over the edge. I sincerely empathise with any College Students with this. There was a couple of days where turning on a light or looking up at a light or even daylight coming through a door drove me absolutely mental!! It was so so bloodshot and red and pink and raw it looked so ugly!

    I do suffer from Hayfever in the Summer so I would be used to getting eye-irritation just like this, - only difference with Hayfever though is that Eye-drops would cure it immediately, however Eye-drops don't work at all this time around!

    I feel like I was going blind in 1 eye lol. my left eye was opening fine and working fine, but my right eye was mostly closed and I couldn't keep it open and couldn't stop squinting. An eye-mask covering my eye does give it temporary relief as another Poster has said, and it does give me the impression that wearing an eye-mask while carrying out my day would make life a bit better while this was going on, but then people would be asking me what is wrong with my eye lol and I don't want that either! But boy is it hard to function and deal with yer day with only one good eye working!! I know what it's like to go blind now. :/

    When a person has something stuck in their eye they rub it and the sensation normally goes away, me rubbing my eye in the state it's in only makes it a lot worse, which makes me think it is "Dry-eye" I have, - because with normally rubbing your eye to clear dirt or dust out would clear your eye because the eye watering would clean it, but, with me rubbing my eye, it does absolutely nothing for it which leads me to believe it must be dry eye, because me rubbing it doesn't clear or clean the eye so there musn't be any/much water in it. : )

    Anyway, the something-stuck-in-my-eye sensation went away after several weeks of suffering from it, but, today when I woke up guess what I had ....... - red/pink raw bloodshot yucky eye, it's back again!!!

    But I think I may know what is causing/aggravating it, it may just be a co-incidence but it may actually be the reason so I just wanted to add my post here as it may help somebody else.

    I am seeing the Doctor at the moment as I am pretty-exhausted and likely my eye-irritation is associated with that, but it is back again today, and the only different thing I have been doing today was that I slept for a lot of the day!!! Like I said I am exhausted, but it seems over-sleeping has brought this on today, usually I would sleep at certain times in a routine, but felt really tired today and slept longer than my routine and Bingo! - I woke up with red bloodshot eye! I know Posters have said they get adequate sleep and have good diets, but just see if you are doing anything different than your usual pattern of behaviour which brings on or aggravates or decreases your eye behaviour further ......

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  • by Matt_T2149 on February 25th, 2012

    Matt_T2149

    My eye had this something-stuck-in-it sensation for several weeks, it is tremendously annoying to feel like there is something stuck in your eye that you can't get it out for 24 hours of the day lol!! I actually did feel suicidal with it lol as it is that annoying. When there is nothing that can be done with it it just drives ya over the edge. I sincerely empathise with any College Students with this. There was a couple of days where turning on a light or looking up at a light or even daylight coming through a door drove me absolutely mental!! It was so so bloodshot and red and pink and raw it looked so ugly!

    I do suffer from Hayfever in the Summer so I would be used to getting eye-irritation just like this, - only difference with Hayfever though is that Eye-drops would cure it immediately, however Eye-drops don't work at all this time around!

    I feel like I was going blind in 1 eye lol. my left eye was opening fine and working fine, but my right eye was mostly closed and I couldn't keep it open and couldn't stop squinting. An eye-mask covering my eye does give it temporary relief as another Poster has said, and it does give me the impression that wearing an eye-mask while carrying out my day would make life a bit better while this was going on, but then people would be asking me what is wrong with my eye lol and I don't want that either! But boy is it hard to function and deal with yer day with only one good eye working!! I know what it's like to go blind now. :/

    When a person has something stuck in their eye they rub it and the sensation normally goes away, me rubbing my eye in the state it's in only makes it a lot worse, which makes me think it is "Dry-eye" I have, - because with normally rubbing your eye to clear dirt or dust out would clear your eye because the eye watering would clean it, but, with me rubbing my eye, it does absolutely nothing for it which leads me to believe it must be dry eye, because me rubbing it doesn't clear or clean the eye so there musn't be any/much water in it. : )

    Anyway, the something-stuck-in-my-eye sensation went away after several weeks of suffering from it, but, today when I woke up guess what I had ....... - red/pink raw bloodshot yucky eye, it's back again!!!

    But I think I may know what is causing/aggravating it, it may just be a co-incidence but it may actually be the reason so I just wanted to add my post here as it may help somebody else.

    I am seeing the Doctor at the moment as I am pretty-exhausted and likely my eye-irritation is associated with that, but it is back again today, and the only different thing I have been doing today was that I slept for a lot of the day!!! Like I said I am exhausted, but it seems over-sleeping has brought this on today, usually I would sleep at certain times in a routine, but felt really tired today and slept longer than my routine and Bingo! - I woke up with red bloodshot eye! I know Posters have said they get adequate sleep and have good diets, but just see if you are doing anything different than your usual pattern of behaviour which brings on or aggravates or decreases your eye behaviour further ......

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  • by sprawl on January 5th, 2010

    sprawl

    If your eye problems vary by location then your eyes may be responding to differences in ventilation and air flow within the room. If I sleep in a room with a fan blowing, even if it is simply blowing across my feet, I will wake up with extremely dry and red eyes. I've missed work before because I couldn't keep my eyes open even after taking a hot shower for 30 minutes.

    I have seen an allergist and only have extremely mild (2 out of 4) allergies to dust/animal dander but I've found that benadryl (diephenhydramine) is still pretty effective in preventing my eyes from getting bad.

    Additionally, a sleep mask covering my eyes or even a headband just over the top of my eyes seems to offer significant relief.

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