Silicea - Eyes symptoms - T.F. Allen

EYES

Eyes

Objective.

Redness at first around the eyes, then also of the white of the eyes, with inflammation and lachrymation,

Redness of the whites of the eyes, with pressive pain,

Ulcer on the left eye,

Eyes weak (seventeenth day),

Subjective.

Feeling as if both her eyes were dragged back into the head with strings,

Pain as if the eyes were being drawn out (fourth day),

Painful cramp in both eyes, closing them so tightly that she can with great difficulty open them,

The eyes are painful, as if too dry and full of sand, in the morning,

Sensation as if the left eye were full of water,

Tension in the eyes and forehead, with weakness of the body,

Tension in the eyes (second day),

Pressure in the eyes every afternoon at 4 o'clock,

Piercing-stinging pain in the left eye (twenty-fifth day),

Sudden piercing pain in the left eye (twenty-eighth day),

Tearing and burning in the eyes on pressing them together,

Twittering sensation in the right eye (thirty-third day),

Heat in the eye,

Smarting of the eyes,

Smarting and pricking of left eye,

Itching of the sore eye, immediately,

Itching of the right eye, in the evening,

Vision

Vision indistinct, misty, with flickering before the eyes (twelfth day),

Dimness of vision,

Dimness of vision all day (fifth day),

She cannot open the eyes in the morning on account of painful photophobia,

Photophobia; the daylight blinds,

Paroxysms of photophobia, alternating with inflammation of the white of the eye and lachrymation (after ten days),

Muscae volitantes before the eyes,

Blinding of the eyes by daylight, so that for moments he can see nothing, in paroxysms,

Slight fluttering before the eyes,

At first she lost the clearness of sight only momentarily,

Misty visions; she cannot see anything clear; this was constantly so for two days,

She could neither read nor write; everything ran together,

The eyes seemed veiled (second day),

Everything seems pale before the eyes during the menses,

Seems befogged after eating; the eyes seem blinded; cannot raise them (after ten days),

A persistent speck before the right eye,

It became black before the eyes after the headache,

Brow and orbit

Itching in the eyebrows,

Tensive pain above the eyes,

Pressive pain over left eye, about the size of a six pence,

Pressure and smarting in the orbits,

Great pressure and sensation of tightness over the eyes, as if something heavy were lying there, before the menses,

Transient griping pain just beneath the right eye, in the evening in bed,

Tearing and sticking above the eyes, so that he was obliged to press the lids together (tenth day),

Lids.

Agglutination of the eyes at night, with smarting of the lids,

Both eyes are agglutinated with mucus in the morning (second day),

Agglutination of the eyes in the morning,

Much hardened mucus in the inner canthi,

Twitching of the eyelids (after four, and ten hours),

Heaviness of the eyelids, as if pressed upon,

The eyelids are very heavy, with sleepiness (twelfth day),

Great heaviness of the eyelids (sixteenth day),

Pressure and pressing in the left canthus,

Pressure in the upper lid, with violent stitches, as from a splinter, and vanishing of visual power (after four hours),

Pressure in the eyelids (after eight days),

Tearing in the margins of both lids,

Biting in the canthi, in the morning, even when not lying down,

Soreness and smarting of the eyelids; she cannot close them,

Burning itching of the eyelids,

Burning biting in the right lower lid, in the morning,

Itching of the upper lid,

Lachrymal Apparatus.

Swelling in the region of the right lachrymal gland and lachrymal sac (after six days),

Eyes and nose water,

Lachrymation in the outer canthi,

Lachrymation and a kind of dimness of the eyes,