instruction: hello doctor I am a 31 year old female my right eye is red and very sensitive to light it is painful while I move the eyeballs center of the eye is paining with irritation
output: hello a couple of things come to mind when an eye presents like you described red painful photophobic the first one is an eye inflammation officially called an anterior uveitis this is usually an isolated incident it is considered idiopathic which is just a fancy way of saying we do not know what causes it if there is a history of this happening before sometimes lab work is ordered to rule out various diseases those might include things like crohn disease or sarcoidosis or spondyloarthritis for an anterior uveitis there is nothing over the counter ot to treat it a visit to an eye doctor to confirm this tentative diagnosis is in order if you are a contact lens wearer this could be a corneal ulcer those present the same way as an anterior uveitis anterior uveitis again there is nothing over the counter for this if you indeed have an anterior uveitis it would need to be treated with prescription steroid drops and we need to be careful with steroid drops if you have an eye infection the steroid will make the eye infection much worse and steroid drops have other side effects that need to be monitored they can cause cataracts and they can cause an increase in the eye pressure putting the patient at risk for glaucoma nothing can be done to prevent this does not appear to be self limiting I am happy to give you all this information but follow up with a doctor is definitely the next step