10 years ago at age 22 I had a big ball of blurry spiderwebs with a few dots show up in one of my eyes, then the same in the other eye a week later. The eye doc said I had Pars Planitis try some steroid drops. it was not to bad because these blurry balls only took up about half my vision and I was able to get them out of my field of vision by moving my eyes around. At this point i got a steroid injection in the worst eye to try and clear it up. helped a little but not much. Doc told me basically to learn to deal with these floaters because there is nothing more they could do. Then three years ago i stood up from a chair and my retina detached. had surgery, doc said the liquid in my eye was like jelly. After that I have now begun having the occacional rapid flare up of floaters in my non detached retina eye. i go from fine to almost blind from the amount of floaters in about 24 hrs. Then i must go in to the retina doc for a steroid shot and it clears it back to normal in usually a few days. this has happened 3 times over 3 years.
Is this what my life/vision is going to be? am I just stuck with these floaters and occacional shot in the eye?
Has anything changed? can anything be done now? What doctors should i see/should have i seen? I live in St. Cloud MN.
questions about Pars Planitis
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Re: questions about Pars Planitis
I have a history of pars planitis too. what you describe requries input from a TRUE specialist in the diagnosis and treatment of uveitis, an Ocular Immunologist.
I do not know of an Ocular Immunologist in your state that I've had any feedback on so I can't recommend anyone to put your pars planitis into remission.
there is a list of specialists at http://www.uveitis.org located in the PATIENT information section of the site, I also recommend that you go to http://www.parsplanitis.org and read deeply. I can help you much easier from the parsplanitis forums as there really are not people at iritis.org with similar experiences as you are haveing.
you need to stop this as soon as possible as you can lose vision permanently with a steroid only approach to treatment as happened with me. I was told that it would burn out and it kept coming back and each time my vision would worsen. the question becomes are the cells from the pars planitis or bleeding blood vessels inside the eye?
do you have insurance? are you willing to travel out of state to Chicago or St Louis, MO? DR Tessler is in Chicago and DR Tauber is in St Louis, MO.
they can prevent permanent loss of vision by treating your pars planitis with either surgery and/or medications.
Wish you the very best,
Mike Bartolatz
I do not know of an Ocular Immunologist in your state that I've had any feedback on so I can't recommend anyone to put your pars planitis into remission.
there is a list of specialists at http://www.uveitis.org located in the PATIENT information section of the site, I also recommend that you go to http://www.parsplanitis.org and read deeply. I can help you much easier from the parsplanitis forums as there really are not people at iritis.org with similar experiences as you are haveing.
you need to stop this as soon as possible as you can lose vision permanently with a steroid only approach to treatment as happened with me. I was told that it would burn out and it kept coming back and each time my vision would worsen. the question becomes are the cells from the pars planitis or bleeding blood vessels inside the eye?
do you have insurance? are you willing to travel out of state to Chicago or St Louis, MO? DR Tessler is in Chicago and DR Tauber is in St Louis, MO.
they can prevent permanent loss of vision by treating your pars planitis with either surgery and/or medications.
Wish you the very best,
Mike Bartolatz
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