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    I need money - a lot, and fast. In addition to having to buy a new laptop before the end of the month, and owing my boyfriend $800 which he is starting to urgently need, and funding my short film, I'm now urgently needing basic living expenses. This was supposed to be the week I went back to dancing to make the money, but it's like my body just wants to fucking sabotage me!

    Tuesday morning, I partially severed my fingertip, and the clinic took my LAST $100 to fix it. It's finally starting to close up, so I was going to try to hit a club tonight... but I woke up this morning with my left eye bright red, swollen almost shut, and oozing fluid. I have no idea whether this is allergies or an infection. It alternately hurts and itches. I took a Benadryl, but if that doesn't work, I don't know what the hell I'm going to do since I'm out of money and out of credit (the last of my credit went to getting my files back when my laptop died).

    I don't get paid until NEXT Friday, so I have another week to go with absolutely no money. And I can't go to the club and MAKE money with a swollen, drippy eye. I have a prescription now for Allegra to help my allergies, but it's $75 for the GENERIC and I don't have enough to get it filled yet. So I'm going to have to sit here and suffer and hope I don't have to buy anything frivolous like food or medical care for the next week, I guess.

    Dammit, dammit, son of a bitch!

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    Can your parents give you a little?
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    Nope, they have three teenage sons and nothing to spare.

    I'm really worried about my eye. It really burns, and now the other one is starting to itch. I have two enormous cold sores at the moment too, and I really hope I didn't get cold-sore juice in my eye. I've heard of people going blind from herpes infections in the eye, and I can't take that drug for herpes (acyclovir) because it gives me stroke symptoms. I wonder if maybe I picked at the cold sore and then rubbed my eye in my sleep or something. I REALLY hope not.

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    conjuctavistis??
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    It sounds like conjunctivitis. You can try hot compresses on your eyes every 15-20 min, but unfortunately you are probably going to need antibiotic drops. Is there a county health department or free clinic that you could go to?

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    Benadryl is helping... it's still puffy and pink, but not as itchy or painful, and it's not as runny. Of course, now it's time to work and I'm stoned off my ass and can't stay awake.

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    How about OTC claritin? Despite the package directions, I always double my dose.

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    Claritin doesn't work on me. If I double it, I get a little relief, but not much. Only one more week until I can get my Allegra prescription refilled... I really hope this is just allergies and not an infection.

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    Wouldn't both of your eyes be affected if it was just allergies? I'm gonna lean toward conjunctivitis (pink eye) with the other peopl who responded. You'll need some drops and stay away from other people. It is very contagious.

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    Maybe it might heal up on its own?? I mean, conjunctivitis can be viral, right? I read that if it's clear fluid like tears, then it's viral, but if it's yellow then it's bacterial. And this is clear. So it will just have to clear up and go away. I have no money to go to the clinic, nothing - I have $13 to last me all through next week, and that includes food. I REALLY need to be dancing. Maybe I'll just take Benadryl and sleep all weekend and it'll go away by Monday.

    I am ALWAYS having some bullshit expensive health issue, dammit. I'd like to exchange my body for a better model, please!

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    My husband had conjunctivitis on thanksgiving weekend. All he did was, hot compresses and benedryl. It too k about a week for it to heal. Also, I gave him some of my anti-oxidant vitamin serum to help the dry, itch patches under his eyes. That helped a lot, because the dryness and itchiness made him want to rub, which in turn made his eyes worse.

    I hope you feel better, Yek. Wish I lived close enough to bring you some soup.


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    This thread made my eyes itch!

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    It's def pink eye go to the ER they will give you meds and bill you later i know you don't want a high ass bill for a tube of stuff that looks like petroleum jelly and cost about 300 at the er but your pink will be gone in about 1 to 2 days. You'll still have to take the meds for at least a week i think. Some hospital's have an emergency plan for people with no insurance like myself. Just ask them about it.

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    I can't afford to go to the ER again. If it comes down to it, I will, but I'm going to wait a few days first. Now that the Benadryl is wearing off, I'm awake but my left eye burns again, and now my right is starting to itch. I'm going to finish work as soon as I can today and then go lie down with a hot wet cloth on my eyes and see if that helps.

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    How about an urgent care center. They have to be a third of the cost of the ED.

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    I have $13 in my wallet and nothing in the bank. And that $13 has to last me one more week until I get paid next Friday.

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    I think you may have infected your other eye. Try not to touch it all. Maybe a patient first then. If you have them in your area. they will see you imediatley.

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    There are free and cheap clinics in every city. Find one. You need it.

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    Yek, here is a homeopathic remedy for pink eye (I used it myself so I know it works).

    Get some unprocessed/unpasturized/organic honey:

    2 tbsp Warm Water
    1 tbsp Honey

    Instructions: In a glass, place some warm water and then place in some honey and mix. Take a few pieces of toliet paper and fold them together so you have a little 1x3 inch strip. WASH YOUR HANDS. Dip the corner of the toliet paper into the mixture and then squeeze a few drops into the infected eye(s). You'll feel a little burning discomfort, nothing terrible, just close your eyes and relax for 2min. Try to do this a few times a day (3min). The area around your eyes will get a little sticky, but try not to rinse the area for atleast 5 min. You will see and feel better within a day. I advise doing this for at least 5 days to be sure the infection is gone.

    Organic/unpasturized honey has natural antibiotic and antibacterial properties in it.

    Hope that helps!!

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    Wow that sounds good VG. I always prefer natural remedies when I can find one that works. Try it yek! You can surely buy some honey

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    ^ I always try the natural remedies. The drops that they use for curing pink eye make my eyes extremely sensitive to light...I hated it. So, using the honey...it will burn a little bit...but there are no side effects...so its awesome. And, it really worked well...all of the redness was gone by the next night (so a little more than 24 hours). I used it for a full 5 days and didn't have any problems with it recurring or anything like that.

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    Thanks, VG!! I have some honey in the kitchen; I'll try this!

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    ^ Just make sure you use untreated/organic honey!! Otherwise, the honey you get from the store (like Albertson's, etc) has been pasturized and will not have the antibiotic/bacterial properties you need to get rid of the pink eye.

    Shit, I have a huge jar here of honey (actually I have two)...if you need some, let me know and I will ship some out to you.

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    Y'know... maybe you have an allergy to stress... or something. EVERY TIME you go to dance, something happens to your body. I know 'allergy to stress' isn't exactly what I'm looking for... but it's not unheard of to end up in a physical illness when your body is nervous to do something.


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    It's not that going to dance stresses me; it's that I tend to go dance when I'm already stressed about money. If these fucking asshole producers would pay me on time and compensate me appropriately for the work I do, I would have no stress and no illness.

    *sigh*

    I just finished my workday, so I'm off to try the honey trick. I got it at the farmer's market last Sunday, so I'm sure it's organic and unpasteurized. I hope it works!

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