Today I visited with a specialist in ophthamologic disease for acute iritis as described in the first post of this thread.
I've been grappling with the condition for two weeks, although diagnosed some 9 years ago with this condition. It rarely gives me trouble and when it does a couple of day's of diolating drops and Pred-Forte steriodial anti inflammatory drops does the job. Not this time.
Since my visit on Saturday the inflammation has cleared up considerably and the adhesions to the iris and the lens are all but practically pulled loose from the diolating drops that relax the iris and pull them apart from the lens. That was the good news, but not without blurred vision and some redness due to the inflammation. Both of which are markedtly improved since Saturday.
Apparently there are some kind of bacteria that adhere to the lens of the eye and are creating the blurred vision. The specialist insisted that I be given an intro ocular injection into the anterior chamber between the iris and the lens to improve the removal of this bacteria. Here's the good part.
He used numbing drops on the eye, 3 drops and a 5 minute wait, then I had to look to the left as he inserted the needle into the eye ball into the anterior chamber to inject the sterioid med. I felt a bit of pressure, but no pain. All was fine and he said "That's it, it's over" Just as he said that my vision began to close in from the periphery and I said "Doc, I think I'm going to lose you"
Next thing I know, I am being cropped up in an ambulance and being IV'd on the way to the ER at St. E's. WTF ?
I had passed out. Ok, no big deal, but my heart rate had gone down to less than 40 bpm and they were concerned that I was going into heart failure. After being carted into the ER and and EKG hooked up the heart rate was beginning to steady at a rate of 75-80 bpm. All this over an eye that is inflammed. After being monitored for an hour I began to have one of the most painful migraines that I have ever experienced. The ER doc orders 50 mg's of demerol and 25 mg's of the phenagan.....................again my heart rate goes to about 60 bpm once they push the pain meds and they put me on oxygen. Bad call to use an opiod pain med just after I had slow heart rate due to what I would probably call merely shock or psycho trauma after the injection.
Never the less, I'm home and still feeling happy from the demerol in the IV.
I'll never let another doctor put a needle in my eye. And, I dont have any idea why my body responded as it did.