Comments on: Rare Arthritis No Match for Woman Determined to Save Her Eyesight

By: Jan Sands

Jan Sands — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 18:50:26 +0000

My story is very similar it happened two months after I gave birth to my daughter At the age of 26 I was diagnosed with Epi-scleritis which moved in quadrants of my Sclera, I became photophobic experieced intense pain. This was the on set of my rheumatoid disease which has since Attacked and calcified my pericardium causing Constrictive pericarditis. I did travel to the mayo clinic in Rochester Minnesota to have a pericardectomy. I am now a proud owner of a dual chamber pacemaker due to Sick sinus node Syndrome. Arthritis as it is called today I prefer rheumatoid disease has affected many organs and joints in my body the eyes the skin the bowels the heart I have two joints that are fused. I’ve lived with an active disease for 27 years.

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By: Zueinna al harthy

Zueinna al harthy — Sat, 08 Sep 2012 16:24:48 +0000

What u wrote is realy going to help us in my case ilive in muscat Oman.and i think my case like yours since i change imean dr change medic.ido have problem with my eyes ive develop some other ilness as well aside myhyprtensive medic l take ranitidine for gastic also itake pain killer for joint pain and since i change betatin50mg zestill 5mg n itake viscor 4 cholesterol ihave more problem now like sleepless nights red eyes and so on………..thanks for ur help

By: Alfredo Quedi

Alfredo Quedi — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 23:14:29 +0000

Around 2006 I started to have redness in my right eye like a red line from the left of right corner. Although it react positively with eye drops prescribe by my ophthalmologist. At first within two to three days, it was gone. Then it occur again in six months or so. However, the occurrence interval between this episode became shorter and the duration longer. The last time it occurs was in mid 2009, when the interval was only one week and the redness lasted more than a week. The redness also is more pronounce now, almost half of my right eye is covered in red. I work in Saudi Arabia and it is mostly my Opthalmologist here that treat me. Then when I went home to Philippine during my vacation, I discuss this episode with my Opthalmologist there. A set of blood test was made on his recommendation. The finding were all-normal except the uric acid is high. I show the result to my Cardiologist and aside from my hypertensive medication, he added also Allopurinol to control my uric acid. Since then, thanks God, I did not have that episode again. I told both my Saudi and Philippine Opthalmologist about it, but according to them, there is no relationship between having higher uric acid count and the redness of the eye.
This article seems to point that there is a relationship. I also read somewhere that uric acid is another inflammatory factor in our body. So, it is possible that that is what causes progressive redness in my right eye. By the way, I am 65 y/o taking hypertensive and cholesterol maintenance medication since 2003 aside from the Allopurinol since 2009. I hope this post would help others.

By: Another

Another — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:33:49 +0000

Reiter’s (aka, reactive arthritis) also presents such symptoms though.