[buntbean]

Hi I'm 'buntbean'

March 2005 I developed severe, sudden pain in my eyes. I had recently had an eye exam and my eyes were fine (no dryness). With the onset of the severe pain I also had severe dryness. The corneal specialist told me there was no way the pain I was describing had anything to do with dry eye (welding sparks, bacon grease). He told me it was all in my head. I became suicidal, my primary put me in the hospital where I was seen by a neurologist. He felt it had something to do with the nerves but he didn't know what. I was put on cymbalta, tramadol, gabapentin, lorazepam. The pain became less intense thanks to the meds. My pain is more of a constant, background pain with times (sometimes days) of more severe pain now. I was seen 2 years ago at the Boston Foundation for Sight and was given the diagnosis of corneal neuralgia/trigeminal neuralgia. ANA is up and down, biopsy for sjorgrens was negative, thyroid fine.