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Emily,
My eye doc said the extra fluid around the eye causes light sensitivity. For me, the light sensitivity also started migraines, so I invested in GOOD sunglasses with UV protection. That helps a lot and I’m not bashful about wearing them when I need them, even inside sometimes!
” title=”Very Happy” /> AngieNot everyone gets the really bad bulgy eyes. Mine buldged enough to cause my eyelids not to close all the way at night (thus waking with worse eyes in the morning from them drying out), but not enough for anyone to notice. But they noticed how watery and red and puffy they looked all the time! I looked like I had a permanent hangover. I also had doudle vision and eye strain that becaem quite painful. And of course all the other stuff, excessive tearing and itchy, red, gravel-like and sandy feeling, sensitivity to light, all that. But my eyes never "popped" out. This actually made it worse for me. I had it for 3 years without a dignoses because everyone would say "your eyes aren’t budlging out, you don’t have it." My eye doc confirmed they were buldging enough to cause problems and I had proptosis (lid retraction), but for a long time docs kept telling me it was "allergies." This is very frustrating. My eye doc even speculated that this is why my swelling was so painful…had my eyes budlged, the pressure might have had somewhere to go, rather than all that pressure that was building up in/under the eye. There are many symtoms of graves eye disease or thyroid eye disease, but the important thing to remember is all people are different. Hang in there!
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