I'm currently suffering from my fifth case of pink eye in 12 months. I am 28 and never had pink eye as a child. I am an avid hand washer and am not around children frequently. I can manage to stay away from colds, viruses, flus and the like at work, but pink eye keeps plaguing me. I initially picked up my first case at work about three or four years ago, but this past year has been horrendous. I am not in contact with many people directly at work (about 10 a day) but work in a rather large complex with many more employees. Usually, my symptoms last two to three days after starting the antibiotic drops and then drastically improve. This time that is not the case. I am on my fifth day of antibiotics, and after having relief on the second and third days, my eyes have now flared up worse than before I started the medication. I think it’s back to the doctor for me tomorrow. I am starting to think this outbreak is allergic conjunctivitis, and my current drops are just not going to help it. Published: March 24 ::

I am a 50-year-old female who works at an elementary school. I just had my first case of pink eye. I got it first in one eye, and three days later, in the other eye. It has been the most miserable experience of my life. It’s been six days, and it’s still hanging on, even with the tube of antibiotics. My eyes are red, swollen, drainy, and grainy. I have blurred vision, headaches, fevers and chills. Published: April 02 ::

I have been teaching school for 20 years and surprisingly, this is the first time I have ever had pink eye. It has been quite a yucky experience! I have been very uncomfortable from the pain and feeling that I had sand in my eye. There seems to be a constant discharge and the area around my eye is raw from the discharge. After two days of antibiotic drops, I can tell some difference but not a big improvement. After reading about it, apparently it will take several more days to be resolved. Sure hope I don't ever get it again! Published: February 19 ::

I have had symptoms for three months including redness in the conjunctiva, swollen eyelids, watery eyes, some morning crystallization in the eyelash area, occasional itchiness and the feeling of something in my eye. With the watering of the eye during the day, the redness lessens, but in the morning, my eyes are again bright red. Recently, I was told that my pink eye is due to an adenovirus and that it should clear up in two to three weeks. I was told to do nothing. What I have found helpful is to put a cool eye mask over my eyes for several minutes, once or twice a day. It has been three weeks and the conditions are unchanged. Published: August 01 ::

I am 59 years old. I got my first case of pink eye in December of 2008. Since then, it keeps recurring every few weeks. I've seen the doctor three times in the last three months, and I've been on two different eye drops. (They both work, but soon the condition returns.) I'm not around children and can't completely get rid of this. I guess it’s back to the doctor for me. Published: April 03 ::

I started getting pink eye when I was 35 and have had reoccurrences about 20 times in the past year and a half. Although I currently have no health insurance because I'm between jobs (Go Team America), I plan on going to the rheumatologist when my insurance becomes active in three months. Published: March 16 ::

I'm 58 and got pink eye for the first time ever six months ago in both eyes. Now I have it again in one eye only. It’s less severe this time, but it hasn’t been getting any better for the last seven days. I'm again using Gentamicin Sulfate and thought it would have cleared up by now. I'm glad to know others have gotten it late in life, and repeatedly, and it's lasting longer than a week. Published: March 11 ::

I got a bacterial form of pink eye back in high school from sharing makeup with my friends. I had to throw out all of my makeup, buy new, and quit sharing. It went away in a week with prescription eye drops. I now have pink eye again, only this time I can't figure out how I got it. My symptoms appeared two days ago. I'm 42, live alone with four cats, have no friends in the area (I just moved to my new location six months ago), and it’s been more than a week since I've left the house because of the weather. I'm hoping it goes away on its own as I don’t have insurance and no money to see a doctor since I'm currently unemployed. I've been trying to keep the area clean, am not applying makeup to that eye, resting, and praying it heals on its own. Published: March 05 ::