Eye Disorders and Diseases

21 year old with optic neuritis

i am a 21 year old girl..since 7 years i am suffering from eye pain during movement and reduced vision and this problem recurses after one or two month but MRI reports and other eye check up shows my eye nerve is fine so the doctors were confused and prescribed me oral steroid due to this i gained a...

by whyt over a year ago

Anophthalmia - Microphthalmia, Isolated - caused by FDA-approved chemicals?

I read in a natural living magazine that Anophthalmia and Microphthalmia, Isolated can even be caused by FDA approved chemicals. Now, my husband and I are very careful to limit plastics in our house and we have only FDA approved toys. Do I still need to be worried? Is there any scientific evidence...

by vivyan1422203217 over a year ago

Post Sty-Surgery Concern

I had a sty in an abnormal area; not sitting on the outline of the eyelid area, but under the eye and inside the eyelid. There was constant irritation with the sty and my eye, leading the sty to never go away on its own as most do. Because of the awkward location of the sty, there was always a...

by melodeeya217460 over a year ago

swollen upper part of eye

i am having this problem from many years.. i am 20 now... i got swollen eye wen i wake up in the morning... i dont knw the cause i had a problem of having dandrufff in eyelashes. may be this could be the cause.... i am using cortisporin eye ointment.. which i wore on night ...eyes r not red but i...

by komal khan254974 over a year ago

Ottic atrophy in autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia

I am looking for people who are going through the same thing, Our daughter, who is in her late teens now, has autosomal recessive cerebellar ataxia and has been experiencing ottic atrophy. The journey has been a rough one all along, with new challenges all the time. If there are others who...

by karel306200438 over a year ago

Keratoconjuctivitis as a part of auto immune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1?

Are there any people here who are experts on auto immune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1? If so, please tell me if auto immune polyendocrinopathy syndrome type 1 can cause keratoconjuctivitis or not? I strongly suspect that this is what happened to a family member but I have no proof that the two...

by thatcher763172916 over a year ago

MY EYE!! :(

I'm only fourteen years old and my eye has been twitching for weeks, on end. It's not the actual eye that is twitching, but it's my bottom lid that's the problem. The worst part is that you can actually SEE and FEEL it twitching. I do not know what to do. Can someone please tell me what is wrong...

by IridescentNightshade over a year ago

I have had Uveitis for the past TWELVE years. Advise on which way to go with getting this better?

Answered by a doctor

I currently still have uveitis and I have recently received cataracts and glaucoma in the eye that received the surgery... Everyone is pressuring me to get another surgery... I read on here that someone else had taken some kind of homeopathic remedy and found their uvietis "cured"......

by steenie over a year ago

contact lense discomfort

I have been wearing contact lenses for over two years now. My optician recently switched me to proclear dailies as i was complaining of dry eyes. The problem is that I am constantly aware of something in my eye when I wear lenses. It is usually only one eye which I feel like there is something...

by irishchap90724 over a year ago

swollen itchy eye lids

Hello, for the past few months now my eyelids have been itchy. Not constantly but often, almost daily. I have also noticed that my eyelids are swollen especially when I wake up in the morning. It tends to go down during the day but I do notice a difference, I feel the swelling. The other day...

by Guest over a year ago