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Elderly man presents with severe, intermittent left eye pain
An 80-year-old retired firefighter with a history of wet age-related macular degeneration since 1990 presented to the retinal specialist for new intermittent severe left throbbing eye pain over the past month. The pain woke him up from sleep and was so severe at times that he wanted to “pluck [his] eyeball out of the socket.” He denied flashes or floaters. He reported his vision was slightly dimmer at times in this eye. He was pseudophakic in both eyes, and he had been followed by his retinal specialist regularly for the (Read more...)