anyone have a reversal of floaters, sparks, shadows, etc..from abx. How long treatment, and what kind worked. Was it the last symptoms to go, as my llmd tells me, the vision and tinnitus is the last to clear. Jenin
Posted by dmc (Member # 5102) on :
yep, no more floaters or tunnel vision Also used to get "view master" vision.
Things in foreground perfectly clear, back & sides blurry.
Those clear in the 1st year of treatment.
Posted by CaliforniaLyme (Member # 7136) on :
YES!!! Wow- yes- my tinnitus and floaters WERE some of the latter things to go!!! IV Rocephin!! The floaters hung out until 9th month I htink!!!
Posted by jenin98 (Member # 12617) on :
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Posted by Beverly (Member # 1271) on :
Yes, I have had many eye problems clear up for me, what I think was bad depth perception, double vision, extreme light sensitivity, floaters, focusing problems and a couple bouts of nystagmus.
I still have some mild light sensitivity, an occasional floater and dry eyes which are very minor to me.
For me, my vision problems were the first things to clear up, along with horrible headaches, two years of Doxy and Mino cleared most of it for me. I still have tinnitus tho, but it is not nearly as bad as it used to be.
Posted by Geneal (Member # 10375) on :
I am so glad to see this posted today.
For the first time in over a year, I had the flashing lights in my eyes.
I am about 32 days into my doxy/flagyl combo.
Wow. At first it scared me, but then I realized I had this before.
Then I thought, darn! I am having it again.
Guess I am stirring things up a bit.
Hang in there. I expect mine to go away.
BTW, I just had my eyes examined last week. They were just fine.
Hugs,
Geneal
Posted by jenin98 (Member # 12617) on :
I got scared. I look at certain images, in certain lights, and it reflects as a shadow when I look away, at the wall. Crazy. I freaked out. It is something I did not have before treatment. I hope the drugs are working, not the critters multiplying. I can read the computer just fine, driving is fine too, even looking into the sky doesn't bother me. Darn floaters suck. At least there is hope it will go away. Jenin
Posted by jenin98 (Member # 12617) on :
I am thinking of going to an optmololgist to get eyes checked, Worth it huh? Jenin
Posted by sunnymalibu (Member # 9586) on :
jenin-you should have an opthamologist check your eyes just in case. What you described has something to do with the retina. Sometimes medication can cause this. Are you taking any new meds? Check the product insert and see if it says anthing about visual distrubances. Best to be safe! Best wishes!
Posted by Lymeindunkirk (Member # 7118) on :
Ask you doc if he understands lyme disease. My eyes were the symptom that started me down the road to discovering lyme disease. Eye symptoms come and go. Right now its back in full force. Last month went to the eye doc and fitted with new contacts that were great. Two weeks later I was back in his office because all of a sudden they weren't working as well. He agreed it has to be the lyme because my eyes are healthy. He explained, which I already knew, that its not the eye itself but the way the brain is reading what the eye is seeing. Because of the lyme the process isnt working as it should.
Posted by TheCrimeOfLyme (Member # 4019) on :
Vision was one of the last things to correct itself in me too. I still have a ways to go, but at least I can see "clearly" while doing it.
Just a note of caution though: Some antibiotics will make your vision WORSE and it may appear to be the lyme when its not.
I freaked out a bit when I could no longer see on Rifampin and Augmentin, but after a few days break, my vision went back to normal. That happened to me on alot of abx- weird vision.
Hope this helps.
Posted by Lymeindunkirk (Member # 7118) on :
Crime of Lyme,
Do you think the eye change could have been a herx at all? Curious as I have just started taking mepron again after a short break with ABX. I didn't have eye problems when I had taken the mepron previously but after reading your comment am suddenly wondering if it could be a herx because of the ABX. I guess its kind of hard to pin point.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
jen, did you post in 2 places as i answered this earlier, but it does not show up here
yes, have eye specialist do a LYME AND DIABETES CHECK. you need to tell them this!! Posted by TheCrimeOfLyme (Member # 4019) on :
Lymeindunkirk:
I think the vision changes very well could have been during when I was herxing as well, but I used to have it 24/7.
Mepron didn't make my vision any worse. it didn't make it any BETTER, but it didn't bother me. Everything else did though!
Posted by tailz (Member # 10014) on :
My biggest eye problems include severe photophobia, contact lens intolerance, and perpetual pinpoint pupils. No drug so far has helped any of these - Rocephin, Ceftin, minocycline, Larium, Flagyl, Diflucan.
Not sure what is going on, but in the dark my pupils should be huge.
My ears are still very problematic, too.
Posted by lymeflox (Member # 10543) on :
Thecrimeoflyme wrote: "Just a note of caution though: Some antibiotics will make your vision WORSE and it may appear to be the lyme when its not. "
That is absolutement true but unfortunately few people seem to care about it. It is advisable that if one of us plans to take one of the drugs that damage the eyes, to consider first the benefit/risk ratio. For instance, a popular medicine among lyme-bart patients, the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics (levaquin and cipro) are distinctive because they do cause to many healthy-non-lyme people the following problems:
1. Very commonly: Severe photofobia, that takes a few years to clear if the treatment has been long and providing that one is not exposed again to them(by the way, it also increases enormously the risk of getting skin cancer if exposed to direct strong sunlight, because both antibiotics create carcinogenics for the skin). Also eye pain and irritation to contact (lenses in particular).
2. Very commonly: Floaters. They are an irreversible damage. Over time the smallest ones tend to disappear, but not the big ones. There is only one solution: to get accustomed to them.
3. Commonly:Sparks, flashing lights. They indicate lesions on the cornea and/or faulty transmission of signals through the optic nerve. They last on average 4 to 5 years after long treatments and assuming again that one is not re-exposed to this kind of antibiotics.
7. Very commonly: Dry eye, that last several years, but normally not less than 6 or 7 years after long treatments.
For those affected, symptoms caused by short treatments tend to heal quite rapidly (months or a few years), but long treatment or repeated doses have a much worse evolution.
In general we tend to pay too little attention to the toxicity of medicines, because we turst excessively the medical system, but nevertheless, it also has to be said that there are persons that do not have any problems taking long treatments of levaquin and cipro, according to their stories, that have been posted frequently on this forum. And others believe that all symptoms listed above are a herx reaction. There are also theories that say that the oficially listed side effects of levaquin are really herxings of the volunteers of the trials that suffer from lyme without suspecting it. So who knows what symptom is due to what (lyme, herx, side effect). That is our drama.
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