A 52-year-old female asked:
why is there a bump on my eyeball and a popped blood vessel with some pain.
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Dr. Richard Bensinger answered
52 years experience Ophthalmology
Thin vein: You did something to increase the venous pressure in your head; probably coughing or sneezing or lifting something heavy. This caused a little blood seepage from a thin vessel on the eye surface. These are dramatic looking but benign and your eye will absorb the blood over 3-8 days.
Answered on Mar 23, 2016
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A 24-year-old female asked:
Dr. Djamchid Lotfi answered
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Unrelated: mild conjunctivitis ,allergies etc unlikely to be related to trauma
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