Remember my post on contracting eye infection on 'Eye Infection...on a 29th Feb~'? Well, my eye infection had in fact gone BAD, and I mean REALLY BAD. For some period, I thought I could have gone blind or something *Touch Wood!*.
It happened on the 2nd day when I was on Seoul, Korea. When I boarded the flight from SG, my eye was still quite erm...fine. During my 1st day there, my eye looked like this:
Seemed like it's on the road to recovery ya? I myself thought so too but unfortunately, the condition just turned from "recovery" status to DISASTER. The next morning when I woke up, I knew my eye wouldn't get any better when I felt my eye...
It turned to this...
Yes. It had gone back to the same condition I had when I had my eye infection on Day 1. In fact, this swelling went even worst than Day 1. I didn't really notice until I went to freshen up and kept feeling something's hindering me from closing my eye. To my horror, I saw that my white eyeball area was COMPLETELY SWOLLEN!
Sorry if it looked kinda gross but it did happen, on me. It was the first time I had such swelling/infection that affected my white eyeball and I was really scared. Imagine I was in foreign land and my eye condition turned into this state. I was literally on the verge of going crazy, from panic. Fortunately, my partner from Seoul brought me to an eye clinic she recommended and for the 1st time in my life, I visited a foreign doctor in a foreign land.
The doctor was NOT gentle at all. In order to check my eye, he twisted and turned my eye as if my eye wasn't swelling or in pain at all! I wanted to be brave and tolerate throughout but he was so rough with my eye, I couldn't stand it and kept fidgeting with pain all the way. This korean doctor told me this was the result of an allergy and hence, prescribed me with 2 eyedrops - 1 for allergy, and the other for inflammation. With that 2 eyedrops, they were like miracle drops which greatly reduce the swelling at the white eyeball area within a few hours! I was so ecstatic and thought I would recover in a matter of few days. Again, I was WRONG.
My eye swelled again the next morning after I was back to SG. I was truly scared then. If the eyedrops prescribed by the Korean doctor were no longer effective, did it means my eye had gone seriously bad? I told myself I need to get to an eye specialist no matter what & I got myself a referral letter from my GP to National Eye Centre, Singlasik Centre. Oddly enough, my eye didn't swell that much anymore on the day I headed to the eye specialist:
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| Still very red and slightly swollen, but not that swollen anymore. |
Took a few tests when I was there and my eye specialist said I had double vision. He was pretty puzzled but he reckoned it was due to my swollen eye. I tell you, I literally had trouble moving my eye to all directions and they looked kinda blurred when I tried to move...Finally, he told me my eye had gone from infection to inflammation state. Like my post title, eye infection gone BAD. He prescribed me a new anti-inflammation eyedrops since the one korean doctor prescribed had expired and told me to keep using the anti-allergy one.
This was how my eye looked the next day upon my visit to the eye specialist:
I would say it got really better....slightly but nonetheless better. With this, it also kickstarted a month-long of me without any eye makeup on.
This was how I looked after 3 weeks upon my 1st visit to the eye specialist:
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| Still a little red somehow but definitely better already! |
Went for my eye checkup earlier today and eye specialist said it was definitely better already. Swelling is now 100% gone but based on my encounters on my left eye to him, he checked my eye once again and told me my left eye is a little dry. Prescribed me with eyedrops to prevent dryness and I would only need to see him 3 months later. Phew...it was really damaging to my wallet to keep going back to him!
Throughout my visit to the eye specialist, I kept asking him if he knew the cause of my eye infection. Unfortunately, he told me since I didn't go to him from Day 1 I had the eye infection, it was impossible for him to tell me what could have caused this eye infection that turned terribly bad into inflammation. This is really GREAT. Now there's no way for me to know the cause and therefore I wouldn't be able to prevent against it! I certainly wouldn't want another infection just to know what could have caused it either!
Sigh, now I can only trial and error. I hope it's not my cosmetic cos I will really hate to go without any eye makeup for such a long period! Speaking of which, it is time for me to put my eye makeup back on which somehow can also help test if they are the cause (though I sincerely hate the infection). Silly I may be, but I won't want to go so plain all day long...it bores me T.T
Let's wish this to be 300% over so I can be back to my happy self. :D
