do I need to go to a doctor?

[BigW]

I am pretty rubbish at judging when to visit the GP. Today I have woken up with a very swollen eye. Not quite swollen shut, but not far off.

I was just going to leave it, but DH says I should not mess around and just go to the doctor.

It's not sticky or painful, but it hasn't gone down since I woke up at 6 this morning (thanks DS!).

I do have rotten hay fever, but it is more swollen than puffy iyswim.

TIA

[CMOTDibbler]

For some reason, my hayfever has given me really swollen eyes this year. Try using some allergy eye drops before going to the gp if it doesn't go down

[ZipItShrimpy]

I would say though if it was hayfever related you might be more likely to have both eyes affected.

I would take antihistamine and try and get it seen tomorrow if it hasn't settled.

Hope it's better soon.

[BigW]

Thanks - am taking antihistamines, eye drops and various other things to try to get me through the summer! Wretched hay fever

[oohdaddypig]

Have you been scratching your itchy eyes? It's easy to irritate them (I do it a lot). If so it should settle quite quickly. I find pharmacists give good advice on this kind of thing...

[Twunk]

Same happened to me last year. My mum is an eye nurse so called her for advice - she said if the eye itself was fine it would go down in a day. And it did!

[valiumredhead]

I would get it checked out if anti histamine drops didn't bring it down .

[BigW]

True to form, I left it! Gone this morning! Thanks for your advice.

[Twunk]

Pleased to hear all better today (same happened to me!)