Does anyone get stabbing eye pain during sleep?

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   Hi,
Does anyone else get woken up by horrible, stabbing pains in their eyes? I sometimes get ripped out of a deep sleep like that - presumably because your eyes move about rapidly during REM sleep. And if your lids have dried out in the meantime .... ow ow ow. The pain is horrendous.
I often find an eyelash in there eventually when this happens, but sometimes it can take days for the eyelash to emerge. Very often the lash will get lodged below the lid surface (top or bottom - it's interchangeable), where i can feel it but can't get at it, and it stays welded to the eyeball, causing further damage and pain. Sometimes I'm not entirely sure if there is something actually trapped in there, or if it just feels like there is. Other times I get instant relief when an eyelash finally apears on the surface of my eye and I can fish it out. Interestingly, it only ever seems to happen to one eye at a time. I have no idea why. But I do seem to shed a LOT of eyelashes on a weekly basis!

It was after an agonising episode lasting 5 or 6 days - the longest yet - that I found the lumecare website. I've now been using the gel and eyebag for about 5 weeks. It's definitely better. Today's the first day I've had what I call an 'eye attack' in about a month. Not sure if there's something lodged in there this time - I think my left eye just completely dried out overnight. We're getting work done on the house at the moment, so there's a lot of dust flying about, which I'm sure is a major contributing factor.  I woke up suddenly in pain at 7 this morning. But it's not as bad as it used to be - at least I can open the eye. That's new - normally my eye would remain stubbornly closed for at least 48 hours during an 'attack'.

I'm reserving judgement on the lumecare until I've used it for about 3 months. But it does seem to help more than anything else I've tried (celluvisc, liquifilm, FML, lacrilube etc).
Also, cleaning the lids with (previously boiled) lukewarm water, Johnson's baby wash and a cotton bud helps. That was a tip from an eye specialist, who told me a couple of years ago that my eyes produce really bad quality tears, with no lipid content in them at all.

Does anyone else get the same thing - the sudden, stabbing pain? And the eyelash stuck to the eyeball problem?  No-one I've spoken to about it has ever experienced anything like it.

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	Hi, Does anyone else get woken up by horrible, stabbing pains in their eyes? I sometimes get ripped out of a deep sleep like that - presumably because your eyes move about rapidly during REM sleep. And if your lids have dried out in the meantime .... ow ow ow. The pain is horrendous. I often find an eyelash in there eventually when this happens, but sometimes it can take days for the eyelash to emerge. Very often the lash will get lodged below the lid surface (top or bottom - it's interchangeable), where i can feel it but can't get at it, and it stays welded to the eyeball, causing further damage and pain. Sometimes I'm not entirely sure if there is something actually trapped in there, or if it just feels like there is. Other times I get instant relief when an eyelash finally apears on the surface of my eye and I can fish it out. Interestingly, it only ever seems to happen to one eye at a time. I have no idea why. But I do seem to shed a LOT of eyelashes on a weekly basis! It was after an agonising episode lasting 5 or 6 days - the longest yet - that I found the lumecare website. I've now been using the gel and eyebag for about 5 weeks. It's definitely better. Today's the first day I've had what I call an 'eye attack' in about a month. Not sure if there's something lodged in there this time - I think my left eye just completely dried out overnight. We're getting work done on the house at the moment, so there's a lot of dust flying about, which I'm sure is a major contributing factor. I woke up suddenly in pain at 7 this morning. But it's not as bad as it used to be - at least I can open the eye. That's new - normally my eye would remain stubbornly closed for at least 48 hours during an 'attack'. I'm reserving judgement on the lumecare until I've used it for about 3 months. But it does seem to help more than anything else I've tried (celluvisc, liquifilm, FML, lacrilube etc). Also, cleaning the lids with (previously boiled) lukewarm water, Johnson's baby wash and a cotton bud helps. That was a tip from an eye specialist, who told me a couple of years ago that my eyes produce really bad quality tears, with no lipid content in them at all. Does anyone else get the same thing - the sudden, stabbing pain? And the eyelash stuck to the eyeball problem? No-one I've spoken to about it has ever experienced anything like it.