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.

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.

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!

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.

My mother had pink eye. She went to the doctor and they gave her meds. She is allergic to everything they gave her. She had me mix the old time remedy for her that my grandmother used, which is boric acid and sterilized water. She has had this problem now for about eight weeks. They took her back to the doctors, who gave her another med that she can't use. So far, she has spent about $200 at the doctor, and she has a limited income. I feel they don't know what they are doing or they don't care. Her eyes feel a little better when she uses the old boric acid remedy.

I went to a neuro-ophthalmologist nine days ago for an ocular migraine. About 48 hours after my visit I had a pinkish color in the white of my right eye. My eye is sore. I went to a walk-in clinic and the doctor said I have pink eye, so I was prescribed eye drops. After using the medication for two days, the symptoms did not improve – it was still sore and red. I went back to the walk-in clinic and they said it was pink eye and prescribed a different eye medication. It has been a week now, and I still have a sore pink eye. I have not had any discharge or crustiness with this. I'm wondering if I have something other than pink eye.

I got pink eye and self-medicated. Reading about the symptoms on various websites, it was clear that I had viral pinkeye, because during that time I was sick. However, it's been a month and I still see red veins in my eyes that weren't originally there when I didn't have pinkeye. It makes me wonder if I still have pinkeye or not. I don't wear contacts anymore and I don't touch my eyes. When I wake up there is no crusting of the eyelids or anything. I'm scared.