How to sleep with corneal abrasions/ulcer??

F21, 5’3” and 105lbs

Current medications are hydroxyzine and sertraline, temporarily taking erythromycin and ketorolac but my optometrist just had me start Tobramycin-dexamethasone.

I have no known allergies and do not smoke.

Hi all,

A few days ago I got some nasty large abrasions in my right eye after a bug flew into my eye at work. I was treated at an urgent care for the abrasions and went to my optometrist today who identified a small corneal ulcer along with the healing abrasions. I previously had the eye closed under a patch for a couple of days but my doctor had my swap to having it open under a pair of sunglasses to avoid infection.

I was prescribed some new medication to aid in healing it, which is great, but I will soon be going on day 4 on having little to no sleep from the pain/irritation. I can close the eye, but when I close both, the whole “gritty/sharp grain of sand” feeling becomes very apparent after a few seconds.

Does anyone have any advice/tips on how to sleep like this? The medication helps and is helping my eye to heal but I cannot get this feeling to go away. I feel like I’m losing it haha.