Why would a vain pop in your eye? Nothing hit me or poked me in it.?!


Question:

Why would a vain pop in your eye? Nothing hit me or poked me in it.?

This has happened 3 times in the last 3 years. Could it be stress, headaches, or sinuses in some sort of pressure build up? Or something else?


Answers:

Veins can pop for no reason sometimes, which is called idiopathic. But most often they come from something called a 'valsalva maneuver.' For example, throwing up, sneezing really hard, weight lifters holding their breath and trying to lift too much, etc. All of these put too much pressure in those tiny little veins, and they pop. They heal fairly quickly, of course, with no real danger. Depending on the size of the bleed, they can take from a week to 3 months to completely go away. Kind of like a bruise on your eye.

Now, if you have 3 or more of these in a short period of time, a couple of years for example, you need to have some blood work done to make sure that there aren't other things going on in your body.

But for a one-time occurrence, use cold compresses with 48 hours of the inital appearance, then use warm compresses till it goes away. Try to stay away from aspirin until it resolves also, since that would only thin your blood and increase the risk of a rebleed.




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