Instead, have someone drive you to the doctor's appointment or hospital. Also, seek medical help if you have eye pain and do not recall any injury to your eye. You have any chemical or heat burn to your eye. You experience loss of vision or sudden blurring of vision. You receive an eye injury from equipment that could cause a fragment to go into your eye at high speed, such as from a grinding wheel, hammering upon metal, or splinters from carpentry sanding and sawing.
Pain returns for an eye injury that seemed to have resolved with treatment.
You experience a sudden loss of vision or sudden significant blurring of vision. You suspect that you have an injury to your eye from a high-speed fragment. Exposure to sunlight or bright indoor lights causes severe eye pain. You have eye redness. You are experiencing minor eye symptoms in the presence of a known eye condition or in the presence of having sight only in 1 eye.