I'm not sure that it was exactly less than 24 hours, but pretty close....
Yesterday driving to work my right eye bugged me most of the day; I occasionally saw this funny blur out of it. Finally after going crazy itching it a lot yesterday before I left the office, I checked and my eye was all red, and I had some dried goop (I assumed mucus) on my lower eyelash. I wiped it off and went home. It came back a bit later, and had spread to my left eye; by the time I went to bed, both eyes were flushing. I woke up a couple times in the night and when I checked they were both very pink. When I got up this morning the first thing I did was call the doctor's office for a prescription for a med, but then I took a shower and used a washcloth to get the crap off of my eyelids.
By 10:00 am this morning I was fine, my eyes seem to have cleared up.
Anyone ever have something like that? I'm sick this week - I figured it might have been bacterial conjunctivitis (I'm on antibiotics, azithromycin 250mg, for strep). But I've never heard of it hitting and receding so quickly.