Hi Everyone
Can I urge everyone to get a regular eye checkup.
My Crohns affected my eyes in the form of Uveitis, this is inflammation within the eye, strangely I had no symptoms - usually people get red itchy and irritated eyes, all clues that something is wrong, but not in my case so it went unchecked. This led to a detached retina and subsequent loss of 80% vision in one eye. This was many years ago now, over the last three years my optician picked up that there was a lot of inflammation in my other eye and referred me to an eye specialist. Following bad reactions to the steroids to reduce the inflammation the pressure in my 'good ' eye was dangerously high, this didn't respond to treatment and I ended up having another operation on this eye to get the pressure down.
So please go and see an optician and mention that you have Crohns and ask them to check for inflammation
Love to all Carol x
Can I urge everyone to get a regular eye checkup.
My Crohns affected my eyes in the form of Uveitis, this is inflammation within the eye, strangely I had no symptoms - usually people get red itchy and irritated eyes, all clues that something is wrong, but not in my case so it went unchecked. This led to a detached retina and subsequent loss of 80% vision in one eye. This was many years ago now, over the last three years my optician picked up that there was a lot of inflammation in my other eye and referred me to an eye specialist. Following bad reactions to the steroids to reduce the inflammation the pressure in my 'good ' eye was dangerously high, this didn't respond to treatment and I ended up having another operation on this eye to get the pressure down.
So please go and see an optician and mention that you have Crohns and ask them to check for inflammation
Love to all Carol x