malin
08-04-2011, 08:34 PM
I was wondering if there is any link between dry eyes and eyesight getting worse fairly quickly and Wegs or the drugs we take for Wegs? (My eyes are pretty bad but has gone from -4 / -5 to -5 / -6 within a year and then after that it went to -5.50 / -6.50 within less than 8 months!)
I'm in the process of trying out contact lenses but so far no luck. I have a few problems contibuting to this but one of the major ones are dry eyes. I never really had dry eyes before but I'm wondering if my last "course" of pred could have brought this on or perhaps even longterm use of MTX?
Another thing is my optician said I had very very slight degree of astigmatism, I think -0.25 and this is too low for them to be able to correct it. Now, this is the first I've ever heard of ME having astigmatism and I've been wearing glasses since I was 8 years old! From what I've read about it, you are usually born with astigmatism and it doesn't really tend to "get worse" so you tend to have the same level of it thorughout your life. Other than being born with this, you can get astigmatism from damage/injury to your eye but I haven't had anything happen to my eyes at all.
Sooo, could this possibly be another way for Wegs/drugs to mess with us or is this a completely seperate issue? :sad:
I'm in the process of trying out contact lenses but so far no luck. I have a few problems contibuting to this but one of the major ones are dry eyes. I never really had dry eyes before but I'm wondering if my last "course" of pred could have brought this on or perhaps even longterm use of MTX?
Another thing is my optician said I had very very slight degree of astigmatism, I think -0.25 and this is too low for them to be able to correct it. Now, this is the first I've ever heard of ME having astigmatism and I've been wearing glasses since I was 8 years old! From what I've read about it, you are usually born with astigmatism and it doesn't really tend to "get worse" so you tend to have the same level of it thorughout your life. Other than being born with this, you can get astigmatism from damage/injury to your eye but I haven't had anything happen to my eyes at all.
Sooo, could this possibly be another way for Wegs/drugs to mess with us or is this a completely seperate issue? :sad: