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    So yesterday my right eye was very unhappy because I hadn't been taking good care of my contacts, and I'd been wearing that pair for over a month when I'm supposed to wear them for 2 weeks. So when I got home I took them out, put in a fresh pair, but my right eye was still a little irritated for a few hours, but it went away. Then when I wake up my eye has .. um.. yeah, I know it's gross, but you know when your eye produces extra yellow stuff and tries to glue itself shut? Yeah. So that usually means pink eye, right? Problem is, my eyes aren't really red at all. They don't look any different from normal -- in fact, they look identical, but the right one is the only one that glued itself shut. I had this exact problem last summer, went to the doctor and got pink eye drop prescription, used up the whole bottle in 3 or 4 with virtually no change in the state of my eyeballs. Once the bottle was used up, I was in New York, so I couldn't go get another prescription, so I just left it alone and (continuing to wear the same contacts) the eyes just healed by themselves.

    I wouldn't be distressed so much about potentially having pink eye except for the fact that if you do have it, you have to throw out everything that's been contaminated by that eye -- contacts, and eye makeup -- so expensive! I'm still building up my eyeshadow collection from last summer when I had to throw it all out.

    Here's a pic to show you how my eyes look. The eye in question is the right one, facing more towards the camera. What do you girls think? Pink eye or no?
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    Default Re: Pink eye or no?

    Close your eye, and lightly poke it with your finger. Do you feel soreness from doing that? If yes, then look at the undersides of your lids. If they are bright pink or red combined with soreness of the eyeball, then yeah, you prob. have pink eye. I get it every year.lol. Its not pink eye like you're thinking, but a viral form that affects contact lens wearers. If you dont have the soreness when your *Lightly* poke your eye, then its prob just irritated. Still, go see a doc and let them know whats up. Even if you dont have pink eye, you can still get some drops to help with the discomfort.

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    Maybe this will help?

    And this link has a more detailed description of pink eye .. good luck!!


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    Good advice, thank you It is a little sore when I poke my eyelid. I just don't want my doctor to tell me to throw away all my eye makeup!

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    Alright, just called the doc, gonna go over there real quick.. update in a few minutes! (Yay for my dad's awesome health insurance I can still leech off of! )

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    Good Luck!!

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    Just got back.. he gave me some Rx drops. I didn't ask him about having contaminated my eye makeup or anything, 'cause I didn't want to know..

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    my friend has this virus thing that makes her eyes really irritated for like a week every year. I wonder if it's something like that. did the doc say?
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    ^^^ Hmm.. nope.. Now that I think about it, he didn't say what he thought it was, he just went along with my description of "pink eye or something"..

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    hmmm .. that's not cool that he didn't really tell you the prob. did u go to an MD or an eye doc? well at least he gave u some drops to make it better. from what i saw on webmd, it didn't look like pink eye to me, just irritation. and it's always better to be safe than sorry (like w/ throwing away contacts, make-up etc ..). but i know that's a scary thought so here's what i do in this situation...
    -clean all my brushes (you should do that regularly anyways!)
    -any pencil liners or anything ...sharpen, break off the tip..keep sharpening, so it's all fresh
    -take a tissue and rub off a layer of your eyeshadow (at least any you've used in the last few days.
    -as far as mascara and liquid liner .. i got nothing .. if you're brave keep them, but cross your fingers you don't give whatever you've got back to yourself next week!

    GOOD LUCK GIRL!!

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