Help -- 16 year old son just diagnosed w/ Iritis............
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2005 2:08 am
Hello to all,
My 16 year old son was diagnosed today with Iritis. The doc told me this info so
non-chalalantly, that I really didn't think much of it.......meaning, the way he described it,
I figured it was something that he will just "get over"....... treat it and it will go away.
But in coming home and Googling 'iritis' I get a very different picture -- one that has me
completely freaked out. Am I just reading worst case scenarios or is this really something
that will be with him forever and may be a precursor to something even worse that
we dont know about yet???????? I'm so afraid right now, and yes, I will be calling this
Opthamologist first thing in the AM to get more info, I was just wondering if anyone
was out there right now to help me mellow out a minute.... I just want to cry. I dont
want my son to go blind, or have cataracts, or be on immunosupressive drugs his
whole life, etc......... am I being dramatic or realistic ???
Any help would be really great right about now.
Thanks so much.
Sharon
PS: he has no health problems / arthritis / TB / ------- nothing. He was diagnosed
with Aspergers Syndrome / High functioning Austism when he was 7, but I cant
see any correlation of that and this. Other than that, he has been in perfect health
and has / HAD great vision (no glasses, contacts).........and no trauma to the eye
has happened to him.
thanks again
Sharon
My 16 year old son was diagnosed today with Iritis. The doc told me this info so
non-chalalantly, that I really didn't think much of it.......meaning, the way he described it,
I figured it was something that he will just "get over"....... treat it and it will go away.
But in coming home and Googling 'iritis' I get a very different picture -- one that has me
completely freaked out. Am I just reading worst case scenarios or is this really something
that will be with him forever and may be a precursor to something even worse that
we dont know about yet???????? I'm so afraid right now, and yes, I will be calling this
Opthamologist first thing in the AM to get more info, I was just wondering if anyone
was out there right now to help me mellow out a minute.... I just want to cry. I dont
want my son to go blind, or have cataracts, or be on immunosupressive drugs his
whole life, etc......... am I being dramatic or realistic ???
Any help would be really great right about now.
Thanks so much.
Sharon
PS: he has no health problems / arthritis / TB / ------- nothing. He was diagnosed
with Aspergers Syndrome / High functioning Austism when he was 7, but I cant
see any correlation of that and this. Other than that, he has been in perfect health
and has / HAD great vision (no glasses, contacts).........and no trauma to the eye
has happened to him.
thanks again
Sharon