Ok, for three weeks now I've been putting silly drops in my eye, I've two injections of steroids in the eyeball, and could not see with a static diolated eye with the diolater drops. Itching, tearing, and generally loss of total vision.
Last night I hit my threshold limit and decided to drive accompanied to the VA Medical Center ER in Cincinnati, Ohio. The wait was 3 hours to be seen by a doc and not without having to wear the Wiley's and a full pack of Kleenex to wipe the tearing. Enough already eh?
I finally get called to the ER by the Doc. He heres my story about the treatment and the drops and the injections. He locates my medical history in the VA system computer and see's that this has been going on since the diagnosis in 1991.
We both agree that treatment is not agressive enough even with two injections of steroids in the eye. He say's to me "Why didnt the O.D. put you on oral steroids (Prednisone)?" I discussed the admition that I had expressed concern for the injections and that oral steriods had worked in the first time that I had the condition.
He orders a weeks worth of 20mg's of Prednisone and instucts me to go to the in patient pharmacy and take two tablets as soon I return home with food to soften the stomach side effects.
I wake up this morning and the condition is almost completley gone !!!!
I begged for oral Prednisone and was diverted to intraoccular injections instead. Now my eye is feeling like a normal person with only the one dose of Prednisone. I went to a privat O.D/M.D and here I go to the VA and the intern doing his ER rotation gives one dose of tablets and it's gone. It may be the total sum of the injections and the drop and the oral dose, but I'm sticking with the VA for all and everything I do to my body now.
By the way, the Cincinnati VA is clean, no mold, and has tv's in every room with phones.