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Crazy year this year. Started out with a new dry eye treatment - LipiFlow. It worked extremely well. Went from 4 glands working to 30. Three months later has iritis flare in left eye. Pred Forte treatment. Got better. Two months later iritis flare in right eye. Pred Forte treatment again. Saw my PCP...

I was diagnosed with anterior uveitis in my right eye on November 12, 2015. Started on Pred Forte 6 times a day. Eye was dilated by opthalmologist with super strong drop (still dilated 3 days later). I have had this before, but I don't remember it ever hurting even after 3 days of steroids and dilat...

I am only 33. I am very near sighted - I can't see my alarm clock clearly without my glasses. My doc used a machine to get a computer image of my retina and all looked normal. Think all will be fine, but will keep monitoring it. I currently have floaters -about 10 tiny circles and one squiggly line....

My iritis came back after a 4 year break. PedForte worked and after 3 weeks of treatment, I finally have no more inflammation. Think the Restasis helped in preventing it from being worse and the long delay between episodes. My new issue is vitreous detachment. My eye doctor did not find any retinal ...

Can wearing contact lenes be part of the problem with the recurrent inflammation? I wear glasses all the time and my first episode with iritis was two years ago. I started wearing contact lenses in September 09, 12-14 hrs/day, no problems. Then in January got episleritis in right eye, March got epis...

It is great to know I am not the only one with this disease. I live in a little town in Wisconsin and everyone I know has never heard of Uvietis. My experience starts two years ago on Memorial Day. I woke up with my right eye very red, extremely painful, light sensitive and my vision decreased. Bein...