I woke up two days ago with the most annoying sand-in-the-eye feeling. It drove me bonkers all day. The next morning the eye was icky. It was matted shut and goopy. It was a little swollen and red. I assume it is pink eye. It's a lot better today, so I'm not going to the doctor for it. I think I had pink eye about a year ago.
Not much else going on here. Higher temps lately. Up to 100.2. Feeling pretty tired and moderate pain.
Hope you all are doing okay!
Beth
I've had that a lot with Lyme, too. Goopy eye syndrome! Yuck!
ReplyDeleteHope you get some rest today and keep on keeping up the fight.
~Alyson
Conjunctivitis is common with Lyme. Some of my earliest symptoms were eye problems. I found this article that talks briefly about eye problems and Lyme. Scroll down and find the part called "How does Lyme affect the eye"
ReplyDeletehttp://www.uic.edu/com/eye/LearningAboutVision/EyeFacts/LymeDisease.shtml
Hope this helps you! :)
I've just discovered your blog and so don't have a good handle on what you've experienced. I hesitate to jump in with a comment that might not fit at all. However, about three years ago, I experienced a second bout of what I thought was conjunctivitis. It was a weekend, and so I stopped in at a clinic. I was surprised to be told that I had a type of irritation that was common in people with autoimmune disorders, not conjunctivitis. I was urged to see my regular doctor and be tested for an autoimmune disorder. I did, and all tests came back negative. Zip forward three years, and I fell terribly ill one fine October morning, 2010, and never got well again. After months of trying to figure out what the heck had gone wrong, bloodwork that a neurologist had ordered (I was having migraines and vertigo, too) started coming back positive for an autoimmune disorder. After my first trip to a rheumatologist April, 2011, I found out that my anti-CCP numbers were also high and that I clearly had RA. So, I'm just saying, maybe you ought not to assume that it's conjunctivitis? Maybe it's a symptom that's important?
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