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hi mike, beeinformed and everyone out there today, i am sending a reply and an update... i am still here and just to recap --- i have been struggling with uveitis for a year and a half now. after this amount of time, my eyes are somewhat under control with one drop of lotemax at night, 2 drops of pa...

Hi out there, Bee, you said you are doing well - what meds are you on that helped achieve that? My doc mentioned Imuran and Cellcept and specifically not plaquenqil because of eye issues. Since I do not have a formal diagnosis yet, we have not talked a lot about treatment. I am a worry wart about dr...

Hi Bee, Good morning to you! Dr. Lahita tested me for a lot but told me I am positive (136) for Anti-La but negative for Anti-Ro. I am still not sure what this means but this is what he has told me. He took more tests for enzymes (?) when I was there last Wednesday. My iritis has been really bad in ...

Hello Mike and everyone else out there, It has been a while since my last update but here's where I stand.... Last time I saw Dr. Foster and Dr. Mauro (in March) they put me on doxycycline hyclate twice a day, an antibiotic, because they suspect ocular rosacea. They took me off of travatan Z and the...

hi mike and everyone else out there on this st. patrick's day :) i am just checking in and sending an update. i went to see dr. foster on saturday. he and his fellow think the redness is from the travatan z drops and ocular rosacea and blepharitis. the uveitis is ok for now (thank goodness) and now ...

mike, i recently went to see a therapist at a upenn office and she mentioned that she was referring me to a social worker to apply for disability. i am clueless about this and it seems like a lot of paperwork and i don't know if i will qualify. i have uveitis and a bunch of other symptoms but no fin...

hi alrakal and mike and everyone else out there today, mike, thanks for getting back to alrakal about the iritis. alrakal, i hope that you figure out what is happening with your daughter. i wish i could help more. i am going to see my doctor (dr. foster) this saturday and if i learn anything that ma...

does your daughter also have/had uveitis? was she on steroid drops? did an opthamologist diagnose her with the eczema? i know, so many questions.... i have been struggling for over a year with uveitis. it's under control with one drop of lotemax currently but who knows what has causes the redness an...

hi mike and everyone out there, just checking in with an update. the redness under my eyes is still there and varies but no bumps so i will ask dr. foster when i see him on saturday. i am starting to wonder if i will ever have another normal day in my life, when i am not putting drops in, using a wa...

hi mike, i don't have any red bumps, just red skin color from eyelids to top of cheek bone. i have been noticing that the redness varies, usually darker by days end and barely there in the morning. it really varies.... i read that some patients experience severe rosacea flares after prolonged use of...

does anybody have ocular rosacea? can you please tell me about it?

hi mike and everyone out there tonight, just an update about the redness under my eyes - it has gotten somewhat better from the baby shampoo washes and the ointment but it is still red. can you tell me more about ocular rosacea? could this be a side effect from drops or dry eye or just constant eye ...

hi mike, just wanted to give you an update. i got in touch with dr. kempen's office and went in for an emergency visit this morning. dr. kempen is away so i saw other doctors. they say i have blepharitis which may be causing more dryness, etc and they told me to clean my eyelashes with baby shampoo....

hi mike, thanks for the info - i had never heard of FML before... i called one of dr. foster's fellows and he encouraged to change my artificial tears to see if that is the problem. if not then he is going to try switching the lotemax or the travatan z.... i switched my artificial tears to preservat...

george, mike and everyone else out there tonight, thank you george for the info on AS and the websites. i have no idea if this is the case for me but i am going to make an appt with my rheumatologist and see what i have and have not been tested for... i will mention AS and be sure to ask about HLA-B...