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The symptoms reported for RCES are very characteristic and no practitioner should fail to make the association. A patient most typically reports an acute, sharp surface pain, often described as a stabbing pain or pin prick, 'like a needle'. This usually only lasts for a few minutes and is most likely to occur early in the morning some time soon after waking. Occasionally it may happen during the night, so watch out for patients complaining of being woken by a stabbing pain in the eye which then subsides.

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