Phantom ocular pain in an empty orbital socket is a known complication of globe removal (evisceration and enucleation)1. It responds well to provision of ocular prosthesis1. This patient with painful blind eye (attachment 1 shows original state of the eye and attachment 2 shows the eye after application of prosthetic lens) was not responding to medications and bandage lens but responded well to provision of cosmetic lens, indicating that a blind globe may also develop phantom ocular pain. The question is open for discussion.
1. Ref. SIAS: Painful Phantom Eye. Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology - Volume 10, Number 4 (Index Issue), October, 1994, 77-78.
If researchers agree with this option of treatment of painful blind eyes, a new way will open up for treatment of this ocular problem.
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