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I was sitting at a dinner and all of a sudden had a sharp pinlike pain in my eye that lasted about 2 seconds then it was gone, got home looked in mirror and have a small red mark on eyeball white now, never happened before but the same eye, right had been
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Lightning pain: You have given a perfect description of what ophthalmologists call "lightning pain". This is a sudden, dramatic and quite painful feeling like a pin got stuck next to the eye. These are common, and do not arise from any known pathology and do not lead to any problem. Since they are transient, no serious research has been done on them.
Answered 12/8/2015
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