Hi can any one help? I have AS & D.I.S.H The outher day I had realy bad sting & burning in the right eye It was very inflamed & both eyes were sore and very red I went to the local hospital and thay put drops in to releave the burning and thay worked ok thay could not tell me if it was Iritis or just sore eyes. Mabe some one that has Iritis can explain what the symptems are. Any infomation would be very helpful :confused:

hi
how they dx your AS and DISH? do u have stiff neck and back?
r your other jonts affected? i have almost in all the joints. i wake up with stiff back and neck when i walk my ankles and hips hurt also my eyes r red and irritated. did u have some infection prior to get AS? my elbows and shoulders and ribs hurt too.what meds do u take now for AS and DISH

pls reply kind regards

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Thanks for your help I am taking celebrex and when the pain gets to much I take tremal slow release. All this started about 4 years ago with heal spures
and calsiam build up aronud the akilies tendent so far 6 ops to remove spures both heals left knee left rotater cuff and both carpel tunnel and no real name for the problem. The pain was geting so bad lower back sholder area and neck also in chest (not heart but rib joint) Had blood test and xrays the gene is present and thats when told I have AS. I was sent to a rumo and had that confermed and the name of the spuring explained as D.I.S.H now I am wating for esr & crp count to go up to go on embrel.So any info will help thanks. :p

Not sure it sounds like iritis to me. Has it happened more than once? I have Iritis and Uviatis so sometimes get symptoms mixed up but...I have never had burning before, The inflamation is in the back of the eye, it affected my vision, like you are looking underwater. I feel i dull pressure behind the eye, like it is going to explode, the eye doc can check your pressures and have a good look, best to back to them. Every one is different

hi

thank u but i dont know what i have. is DISH is AS or OA in all my body
i tried different meds but dont work. all test r neg. HBLA 27 neg.im terriefied
cos i dont have dx and proper meds for my disease
my back and ribs and hips hurt when i sit and stand and walk
kind regards
Iris

Not sure it sounds like iritis to me. Has it happened more than once? I have Iritis and Uviatis so sometimes get symptoms mixed up but...I have never had burning before, The inflamation is in the back of the eye, it affected my vision, like you are looking underwater. I feel i dull pressure behind the eye, like it is going to explode, the eye doc can check your pressures and have a good look, best to back to them. Every one is different

thanks yes quiet a few times but I never worried about it. But when I went to see a specialist and had AS diognosed in a hand book on AS it said about iritis and recomend going to DR or hospital and that is what I did. That day both my eyes were weeping & webing vision was very blury all day and in the night it was burning and both eyes very bright red and sore.

I had my first flare up of iritis about 12 years ago. My eye doctor found I was hla-b27 positive. It is extremly painful. I have had several flares over the years and have been on everything imaginable. I've had steroid injections into the white of my left eye. Up until the end of January I was on a combination of remicade and methotrexate. It was keeping it in check but I just lost my health insurance due to not being able to return to work after knee surgery to take an enchondroma off the tibia and repair of the meniscus. Along with the iritis I have fibro myalgia, RA/OA, I also have aortic and mitral valve insufficiency all due to the hla-b27. I guess my best advice is get a good team of doctors together. They must work well with each other to help you. All of my doctors know that when I say I'm not well I am really not feeling well. It took years though of being told I was depressed and fat and even just plain faking to find a group of dr's that understand. good luck.

Thanks for your reply I am all so hla-b27 positive. I have a good DR and specialest that are looking after me. It is good to be abel to ask questions from ones that have the same problems and how thay cope thanks for your help.:wave:

I had an iritis last year, my eye was very sore first then it got red and very painful. When my eye would dilate or when I moved my eyes it hurt really bad. There was no drainage from my eye. They gave me steroid drops and dilated my eye for about three weeks. (Yuk) It did affect my vision in that eye, but once I was able to stop the drops my vision cleared back up. Hope this helps.

Thanks to all. Your coments have helped me undrerstand more about my problem. When it happens again I will be able to handel it better , Once again thanks.