Visual Disturbances due to RA??

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I don't post very often...I'm more of a lurker.

I have been having a horrible time with my vision. I had my last eye

exam 10 months ago and was found to be hyperobic (?). This basically

means I am both near and farsighted in each eye! over the last couple

of months however, my vision has gotten increasingly worse. I spoke

with the tech at my Opthalmologists office (who ironically has a

practice that is largely those of people with RA...he is also a cornea

specialist, which I heard today is important to have when you have

RA...the things we learn!), who in turn spoke with my Dr. I am going

in tomorrow for another exam, but he thinks I may need to change my

Rx!!! He said it is very common with patients that have RA to have

visual changes. In fact, the tech told me she also has RA and is on

Enbrel (I take Humira) and has five different prescriptions that she

wears and alternates!

Further, the tech told me some patients due to the dry eyes that we

can get from having RA, end up needing cornea transplants!!!

Can anyone shed light on this for me? Any help you can give is

greatly appreciated!!! I am pretty scared right now! My glasses are

not even helping me at this point. I wanted to try contacts again,

but he won't put his patients with RA in contacts. When I wore them

last, I had not been diagnosed with RA nor did I show any symptoms of

this disease to my knowledge.

I apologize for the rambling...I am just frustrated and confused. I

initially blamed it on being on Lyrica for Neuropathic Pain from nerve

damage to due to an injury, however, while it can occur in about 1% of

the people on Lyrica, they do not feel that is the case at this point.

Robin