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Well I've gone all summer without a flare-up. Had my last one in early June. Since then I did the durizol thing and am now on a maintenance dose of Lotemax (1 drop daily in my left eye). Dr. Gross says this is a great maintenance steroid as it does not tend to cause the side effects the other steroi...

We'll I've been on it almost 2 weeks now and am well into scaling it back. I'm at 3x a day from the original every 4 hours. I saw the Dr. 2 days after starting it. He could barely even see any cells. Other than some eye dryness and a little more sensitivity to light (while using the hemotrop.) than ...

The iritis flared up in my right eye this morning so I've started with Durezol. Fortunately I have a few samples that are tiding me over until my bottle comes in tomorrow ($118 for the thing). Dr. Gross has heard of and seen good results with this new med and he wanted me on it the next time I had a...

Mike, When you hit the site, click on his name: http://www.cornea.eyemd.org/ypol/user/userMain.asp?siteid=1700287&content=userHomePage&bcx=My%20Doctor^ TAB~Web%20Site^MNU~Dr%20R.%20Gross^PST^1700287~Home%20Page^CAT^1 Specialties Cornea and External Disease, Refractive Surgery, Cataract Surge...

Mike, I am seeing Dr. Robert Gross at the Cornea Consultants of AZ. He was recommended to me by the Eye Clinic at UCLA where he did his fellowship. Here's a link to their web site http://www.cornea.eyemd.org/ . I have seen all the doctors in the practice and all are outstanding. Hopefully this infor...

MIke, No lesions that I know of. Never had a brain scan. He just did a workup that I remember very vaguely. However a big YES on the valley fever. I had a very bad case (almost enough to get me to the hospital) when I was around 10 or 11. The doctor can still see those little white spots (nodes?) on...

Eyeballs, You are in the right place here. I started on the roller coaster about 3 years ago. I'd never heard of Iritis and my friends and family never had. I was thinking, I am just one of those weired people with something almost no one else has, untill I found this place and learned a lot of peop...

Mike and Mary, Thanks for the kind words and advice. This always has been a welcoming place. Mary, the notes on my neurology screening those many years ago, use the label minimal brain damage. This is also mentioned on the wikpedia site. The name dyapraxia came along much later. I'm guessing Mom nev...

Mike and Mary, Thanks for the info. I'm reading the same things you did. What caught my attention was a mention of the dyspraxia causing difficulties in dealing with stress. I've heard here and other places that stress can be a trigger for a flare up. I was thinking that if a person had dyspraxia (a...

The appointment went well. Dr. Gross has me taking the drops every other day for the next couple weeks then off totally and we cross our fingers. Left another question today. I found some old papers in file cabinet that point strongly to my having been tested for Dyspraxia as a kid about 30 years ag...

Does anybody know of a connection between iritis and Dyspraxia?

Thanks,

Brian

HI all, The summer has been interesting to say the least. Got off the pred at the end of Jun and had a very mild flare up about a week later and was back on the meds again. I should be off them later this week after I see my doctor here in town (I'm down to 1 drop a day). I also had oral surgery twi...

Mike, Hope all is well with you. The iritis is back in my left eye and I'm on the predfort again. A pain but undercontrol. The question: I've been fighting a dental infection and had a root canal in December. After being back on the Pred. for a week, the damned infection flared up badly, meaning ano...

Happy New Year Mike! Well I've been seeing Dr. Holland at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA since October. He had me on a heavy dose of pred. followed by a slow reduction. I have now been off the meds. totally for over 11 days and (knock wood) am feeling quite well. I am trying to limit my conta...

I have just come off another reoccurrence of irits and I've decided it's time for the next step. I will be seeing Dr. Garry Holland at the Jules Stein Eye Institute on October 16th. Hopefully he can give me an idea why I am having so many reoccurrences of iritis in a short time. I'm frustrated that ...