I Went to a doctor to get my eye checked out for a similar situation. It felt like there was constant scratching in my eye whenever I moved my eyball or blinked (the scratching worsened when my eyes were closed). I told my doctor that whenever I moved my eye with my lids closed I could feel it scratching, but if I pulled out on my lid a little it didn’t scratch anymore. He and the nurse basically fought with me saying it was pink eye. I explained that yes, I can see how it looks like that since my eye is now pink from rubbing it for the past 6 hours, but it was not pink eye, I was familiar with pink eye and knew it was not that, it was ‘something’ under my eyelid scratching me, and i could feel it very clearly. He stuck a small stick in my eye and scraped across my eyelid and he said a small particle came out, and it may have been it, but perscribed me an anti-biotic ointment anyhow (by the way I’m not convinced these ‘ointments’ work for crap, I think a strong eye drop would have been MUCH better, this shit just makes my vision super ridiculously blurry).
Today I made it on here, after days of pain, and something Tiphanie said made me think “screw it, this has been hurting for days and my vision is blurry and I can barely see”. (I’m a graphic designer and IT guy by trade, so not being able to clearly see was essentially destroying my abilities / making me DREAD work tomorrow). My wife picked up an eye patch at the store and it let me focus enough throughout the day to start reading online.
When I saw Tiphanie’s comment it reminded me of a tiny (very tiny, tip of a tooth-pick tiny) white dot I saw waaaaaaaay up in the top of my eyelid when I had been examining myself the day before. I Went in the cupboard and grabbed a few toothpicks, and reached up in my eyelid (steadily, trying not to gouge myself) and poked / prodded at the little white thing a bit. I barely touched it and it looked like it moved a little, I didn’t know if I popped it or what, so I slid my toothpick accross it sideways and it wiped out and into my eyelid, like a white-head pimple or something, a small white dot. One more good wipe and I had it out of my eye, all scratching sensation immediately stopped. my vision is still blurry but I imagine that will fix itself shortly now that my eye is done attacking itself. Thank you Tiphanie for that somewhat gross but great tip, it worked and I can’t thank you enough!
Also I used my super-macro lens camera, I have pictures! If there’s a way to post images on here I’ll post them, but I’m new to Fluther so I just wanted to make this post and say thank you!