The doctor first said I have a scratched cornea and then said I have an infection behind my eye?

Question:

I am writing this for my husband. He is currently laying in a dark room, trying to get away from the pain. Five days ago the doc said he just had a scratched cornea after he was complaining that his eye hurt (said it felt like his contact was folded in half in his eye). Then the pain went into his head. A new doc two days later said he had an infection and that was causing extreme pain to the middle of his head. A doc today said he may have Shingles in his head. His eye is red and he says it feels like needles are poking his eye ball with extreme pain in his head and right behind the eye. He is crouched over from the pain in his head. He can see, but his eye is very teary and maybe even swollen. The doc gave him anit-inflamitory meds and meds to kill a virus. Nothing is helping. It has gotten prgressively worse and worse over the course of four days. He had a lot of stress in his life two weeks ago. Don't know what else to do. He cannot sleep and lies awake all night.

Answers:
I've had my cornea scratched twice. It feels like someone is taking sandpaper across your eyeball. It gave me agonizing headaches. I went to the emergency room and there they numbed my eye and used a black light and found the scratch. I know what he's goin' through and it sucks. Don't wait any longer....Get up and go now. As for the shingles.I agree with the first response. Never heard of shingles in the head. Ask his doctor if he has ever heard of "foot in the @$$" Good Luck.

what kind of doc has he seen? if you haven't already, take him to an opthamologigst. check to see if there is a specialized eye clinic in your area. the scratched cornea could cause the infection but this sounds severe.i've never heard of shingles in the head. that has to be one for the books. if you can't find the right doc, go to the hospital. there are opthamologists on call. i really hope he gets better. good luck

It is possible to get shingles in the eye - the condition is called herpes zoster opthalmicus. More precisely, what happens is that you get shingles in the dermatome that contains the eye and so the eye can get the infection as well. I suppose a reasonable and competent doctor could misdiagnose it as a corneal abrasion (scratched cornea) when it was in its early stages.

At any rate, if herpes zoster opthalmicus is being considered, your husband needs to be seen by an opthalmologist right away - hopefully, one of those three doctors he's seen so far is one.

Good luck!

The doctor first said I have a scratched cornea and then said I have an infection behind my eye?

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