Your eyes

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Back last Novemember I had something come up with my eyes. Over the

weekend my right eye felt like I had sand or something in it. At

first I thought, " Oh no...not pint eye " . Well since it was the

weekend couldn't do much about it so figured I would call my doctor

that Monday morning. The eye was still hurting on my way to work

and since I leave so eary it was still dark. I noticed the

headlights of the cars looked like they had this blue halo around

them.

I was lucky enough to get in around 9am to seem my primary doctor

who quickly made and appointment for an eye doctor that after noon.

got there at the eye doctor aroudn 2:15pm and he took a look and

then went into full gear. Wasn't sure what was going on, but

started putting all kinds of drops in my eye and then making phone

calls out to the major Hospital. Well as it all turned out it seems

I had two forms of glaucoma. Not the kind you get with Diabetes

either which should have been the case with me.

Anyway, I was finally allowed to leave around 5:45, but had to be

back in his office at 8 am the following two mornings until they

could get me in to a specialist. The normal pressure in someones

eye is " 15 " . The pressure in my right eye was over " 50 " and

over " 30 " in my left eye. Fould out later I was on the verge of

going blind in my right eye.

What I have is called open and closed angular glaucoma. What that

is I can explain this way. The clear part of your eye has this

fluid that circulates throughout it. It's like having a fauset

turned on and the fluid flows from the fauset..then it goes down a

drain. This is a continued process. However, in my case the damn

fauset got stuck on full force and the drain is clogged. I had

lazer surger to make holes in my Iris so the fluid will drain and I

have to put two different drops in my right eye (it was the worse)

for the rest of my life.

Reason I'm explaining this all to you is I want you all to realize

what can happen. Just one of the many little health problems I have.

Oh well, Feel like I've been in a major war and heck I'm still

alive

Oh, and this all happened before being told I had RP. Not sure if

that has anything to do with it or now, but with everything that has

hit me these past years I'm still the only one in my family history

to have diabetes, glaucoma and RP.

Sharyn

> In a message dated 3/9/02 5:51:12 PM Pacific Standard Time,

> DagnyThrw@n... writes:

>

> << It is really important to see a good eye doctor as a lot of

damage can be

> done to the eyes by RP. Don't wait. Good luck, Dagny >>

>

> Thank you Dagny for saying this. I think alot of us forget about

our eyes

> when we don't have any problems with the. My rheumy says I should

have my

> eyes checked every 6 months by an opthamologist who is familiar

with

> inflamation of the eyes and autoimmune diseases. It is even more

important

> if you are on Plaquenil. This drug does cause some kind of

granuals on the

> eye and when found the drug should be stopped and it should go

away.

>

> Thanks Dagny for bringing this important part of rP to our

attention.

> hugs

>