Re: Iritis / Andi / Luanne

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Hi Luanne,

I also have bouts of iritis / uveitis. In the beginning I received pred.

drops but in the last few years I've been given Indocid drops. Maybe that

could also be an alternative for Ty ??

Glad he did well (for him !) with his Remicaide.

TTYS,

DutchPat.

> From: bbnlu@...

> Subject: Andi

>

I keep

> wondering what will be next with him....he has eye problems...irits....has

> had it many times....swelling in the back of the eye...looks

> red...painful....and left untreated or mistreated can be very bad....the

> first time he was diagnosed with pink eye...but no oozing...so I didn't

think

> it was pink eye...his ped at the time treated him with drops....a week

later

> he is in great pain and worse...so another med....still no good so I get

> referral to see eye specialist...in less that 2 minutes after looking at

his

> eye in that machine of theirs..he says he has irits....hmmmmm...that is

> strange...he is so young...6th grade at the time....I tell him about his

> crohns....ohhhhh that explains it....they usually treat with pred but at

the

> time his GI docs did not want him on pred....was having all kinds of bone

and

> muscle problems because of pred...so they treat him with pred drops...1

week

> later getting worse..pain is worse...and loosing his site in that eye...he

> actually went completely blind in that eye.....so they choice to give him

a

> shot of pred in his eye....YIKES...he said ...he didn't care...just get

rid

> of the pain...with in days he was in less pain and site was returning

> slowly.....he has had it many times ...in the other eye and in both a

couple

> of times at the same time....his system just loves to pick on him...

> when I called his doc...just told him the signs of red eye and

pain...right

> after seeing eye doc...they said...oh he must have irits....duhhhhh...4%

of

> Crohns patients get this....of course Ty would get it...if it is rare then

Ty

> will get it....

> It is rather scary reading the list of autoimmune diseases.....so I dont'

> anymore....not looking for trouble....