What is eye pain? Eye pain can be sharp, aching or throbbing, and can affect one or both eyes. Eye pain is more serious than the simple irritation one feels from a piece of dirt or small foreign object in the eye. In such cases, discomfort disappears once the foreign...
Optic atrophy (or progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells, or RGCs) is a progressive loss. These cells transmit part of the visual data to the brain. The degeneration of these ganglion cells leads to further vision loss. Patients with this appear pale and their...
