[Heidi15461]

The last few days I've noticed that my gecko seems to be squinting on eye. There is in sores and there is no discarge. Should I be worried? She seems to be laying around more than usual also and doesn't seem to be eating as well. Do they usually go through some type of faze like this (the eating change)? B/c I also have 2 other geckos in a seperate tank and they haven't been eating the same either, usually they come out of the hides as soon as I fill their mealworm bowl, pls help.

[Yoshi'smom]

This sounds an awful lot like the start of what I've been going through with my boy for the last 5 months.
Firstly, does he open the eye at all? If so, what does the eye look like? Is it cloudy? Does he still have light response in that eye?
Here's the last 5 months for my boy in a nutshell:
Yoshi started to keep one eye closed and started not eating. I was helping him open the eye with saline solution and a q-tip. I noticed that in the eye that he was keeping closed there was what looked like retained eye shed. After a week or so of at home eye flushes with saline things weren't getting better so we went to the vet. Turns out that it wasn't stuck shed in the eye at all. It was an ulcer on the eye from a scratch. Doc gave us meds and medicated eye drops.
Fast forward 5 months and Yoshi still hasn't eaten on his own (I've been helping him eat) and is on 4 oral meds and the eye drops and it looks like I may have finally beaten this.
I guess what I'm trying to say from this is that it could be something as simple as a retained eye shed that may come out with some at home saline flushes. Or it could be the start of an eye infection. Either way, try to help him keep the eye open and if it doesn't get better in about a week, go to the vet.

[Heidi15461]

thanks for replying. its just the one eye and when I open it myself there isn't any cloudiness or anything. and she will open it when I go to put my hand in the tank but if I just watch from the outside she just want to lay around and keep there eye close. she did shed just like 3 or 4 days ago. will I be able to see shed in there if it was left behind? and should I try to wash it out if so?

[Yoshi'smom]

You should be able to tell if it's stuck shed. I would go ahead and get some saline solution and drop a drop in like 2 times a day and see if that helps.... Keep us updated.

[Riverside Reptiles]

saline solution is nothing more than mild salt water. You can try it, but I wouldn't expect a whole lot of results from it. My best advice is to not do this: