Eye Infection? For over a month, please help!

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Hello,

Over month ago I was given antibiotic drops for bacterial pinkeye which my kids also had. 1 week of eye drops and theirs goes away. Mine seemed to go away too but then when I stopped using an eye wash every night my eyes would be red and goopy in the morning. So if I do not do an eye wash EVERY NIGHT they get bad and are still pretty bad even with the nightly eye wash. I do not believe it is hygiene related as even when I wear no makeup or anything and wash my face goodand do the eye wash it still happens EVERY MORNING regardless of what I do. Some days are better than others. Here are my symptoms:

- Red eyes that won't go away even with Visine. (The eye that is more red seems to alternate)

- Gritty eyes

- Eyes get super dry to the point my upper eyelids are drooping and I cannot open them

-Vision has worsened / became more blurry and not gone back to normal

- Itchy at night sometimes

- Goopy in morning (not sealed shut like with pink eye, more like thick gel feeling tears with a little colored goop in eye corners)

PLEASE HELP!

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    Hi. Sorry, this might be a bit late now, and if you're lucky things have got better already.  If not, I'd say you should see an optometrist to get it checked out. You might need another course of antibiotic drops, or if it's a severe or persistent infection, possibly oral antibiotics. It might also be something else instead or in addition to the original infection.

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