It is time for us to address neuropathic eye pain.
We can think of neuropathic eye pain (NEP) as the more general, more inclusive version of neuropathic corneal pain (NCP) I recently mentioned in my column on three cool new things in the dry eye disease (DED) world Briefly, whereas NCP is intractable pain that a patient feels emanating from the cornea, NEP also includes other types of pain and painful sensations that not only seem to be coming from the cornea but any part of the eye. For the purposes of this column, I will use the more inclusive term NEP; I think it is important that we all