Sudden eye pain

[karenvbn]

My mother has occasional sudden pain behind her left eye.  Her ophthalmologist said it was positive dysphotopsia.  But nothing I've read about it says anything about sudden pain.  It only says things like patient will have glare problems, or see things like flashes or arcs of light.  That is not the case with my mother.  She does have scar tissue from having had cataract surgery on both eyes.  The doctor says she may eventually have to have a laser procedure called yag capsulotomy to get rid of the scar tissue.  But what about the sudden pain in the eye?  Could it be glaucoma?  Or something else???

[CBCT]

I have experienced positive dysphotopsia and had posterior capsule opacification which was treated with YAG.  Neither the dysphotopsia nor the opacification caused pain.  I have also done extensive research on both conditions and never saw mention of associated pain.

[achillea]

If it were glaucoma, (a) the pain generally gets worse and worse, and (b) her ophthalmologist would have detected it.

There are a lot of weird things that can cause eye pain, and the fact that her eyes are being checked and given the OK by a real eye doc should be reassuring.  He/she would have picked up anything bad that's related to the eye.

However, since this pain always occurs behind the left eye, you might want to take a look at this website:

http://www.just-health.net/Pain-Behind-Left-Eye.html