Topic: have antibiotics helped your eye symptoms??
randibear
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my eyes are still bothering me. they itch like crazy and are red when i wake up. i put drops in them in the middle of the night. i often feel like my eyelid weighs a ton and there is a lot of pressure around my eyes and temples.
and the twitching drives me to distraction (a short journey!!).
my eye doc says conjunctivitis and gave me some eye drops. they helped for a day or so but the symptoms are all back.
i'm pretty sure this is lyme because i never, ever had these eye problems before.
and this is the most scary symptom of all. when it comes to my eyes, i just freak out.
so have antibiotics helped your eyes? if not, what did the doc do to help??
i'm afraid to use over the counter.
-------------------- do not look back when the only course is forward Posts: 12262 | From texas | Registered: Mar 2007
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doxy with pain behind and around eyes. my twitching was head to toe (including eyes) and that has mostly gone away as well.
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CaliforniaLyme
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YES I had Adie pupil and blurred vision and decreased vision and hordes and villages of floaters!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sharp stabbing pains like someone was hitting me in the pupil with a hot needle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ALL GONE for YEARS AND YEARS after Iv RocephiN!!!
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Vermont_Lymie
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Yes! The pain behind my eyes have gotten better slowly with treatment over the past year, but my floaters have gotten worse for sure in the past year. It helps to see a lyme literate opthamologist.
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Now that you bring this up.. yes. 9 months of abx have helped with the pressure behind the eyes. They helped with the floaters when I was feeling better..
But now I've slipped back a bit so I feel like my eyes have issues again.. but the pressure hasn't come back.
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JimBoB
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Randibear: Have you tried washing them with a decoction of Stephania Root?
I haven't done that, but Buhner recommends it.
I find what works best for my for MY eyes is Devil's Claw. I ran out yesterday, and haven't made any more up, and my vision got bad again today. So as soon as the big thunderstorm gets done here, I am going over to the old house and encaplulate some more.
valymemom
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I went back through the information from the New Haven symposium and bartonella can often be the root of eye problems. One slide states ophthalmologic manifestations with bart symptoms: visual loss, neuro retinitis.
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valymemom
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Public Health Alert front page article on bart lists associated ocular disorders: blurred vision, depth perception and retinal damage.
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The best thing that I found to help with conjunctivitis symptoms was Collyrium eye wash. A great MD in TX recommended this to me and it helped a lot.
In the last few years I began to have out of control floaters and squiggles in my eyes. It was often misconstrued as visual aura effects from migraines by MDs.
My LLMD said that He suspects the floaters and squiggles are spirochetes in the eyes. I have found great relief from Sulfacetimide (sp?) eye drops.
Hope this helps. I thought I was losing my mind.
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PS- Quinine helps the twitching- at least for me. It is in tonic water.
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JimBoB
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quote:Originally posted by she7: The best thing that I found to help with conjunctivitis symptoms was Collyrium eye wash. A great MD in TX recommended this to me and it helped a lot.
In the last few years I began to have out of control floaters and squiggles in my eyes. It was often misconstrued as visual aura effects from migraines by MDs.
My LLMD said that He suspects the floaters and squiggles are spirochetes in the eyes. I have found great relief from Sulfacetimide (sp?) eye drops. Hope this helps. I thought I was losing my mind.
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I thought the squiggles were the Floaters? I have had the squiggles for many years. Before Lyme. I was told by eye doctors MOST people get them when they get older.
There are transparent floaters that you can just see their outline, but can see through them.
There are dark floaters that look like a spec in your vision that dart all over the place as you move your eyes.
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just don
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I was shocked when I went to church,sat half way back,,,and couldnt see the peoples faces in the front,,just blurs.
My mother and her mother before her had macular degeneration,,,I may too,,,dunno,,or just the lyme,who knows.
Anyway I have a regular old TV from 25 years ago. Cant see the suits or numbers on the cards 'sometimes',,,watching 'Poker after dark'(they show cards and percentages of winning in corner),,,but SOOOO small. Guess its made for big screen tv's.
My eyes are becoming my worst symptom. they itch and burn like crazy in the mornings too.
Randibear,,,have you tried taking allergy meds in morning??,,,like benadryll or cheapie look alike?? And cheapie OTC counter ingredient in Claritin as an example,,,sure helps me!! Costs about a dime a day!! pretty reasonable feel better!!
Hope all get better,,,I cant seem too,,,any abx I take can better be served by throwing at a rock,,,same difference!! sadly--just don--
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I had everyones symptoms here plus I got brown spots on my iris.
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tailz
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I told a psychiatrist years ago that my left eyelid drooped ever so slightly. I got, "hehe Everybody's face is uneven." She thought I was OCD-ing.
Of course this preceded the eye pain and more constant eyelid droop.
Last night though I had some freaky eye symptoms. Specifically, it was almost like I had the light on a dimmer, and someone kept turning it down on me. Pretty scary.
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bejoy
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For itchy eyes there is a good homeopathic over the counter found in most pharmacies around here called Similasin.
It works really well with no side effects. I'm using cooloidal silver eye drops for floaters, and its working.
I understand that antibiotic ointment works well for floaters too.
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