Back From the Hospital

hoosier1 · Post by **hoosier1** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:48 am

Glad you are feeling better Joe. That's all you need... another curve ball.

Rich

Kari · Post by **Kari** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 7:52 am

Joe - yikes - that does not sound like fun. Thanks for the heads up and best wishes for a speedy recovery!!! Please keep us posted on your progress.

Love,
Kari

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 8:39 am

Wow thanks again for all the good thoughts. I am feeling better after some sleep and my plans are just to follow doctors orders and relax today.

Hmmm being brave?? I don't think so, lets just say it was a good thing I was sitting down when it came time for the shot

Gabes... using the force LOL I used something, not sure what to call it. You actually not far off with me using a lightsaber, I work with and design laser optics but they were not involved with this incident.

Gabes I am working on a real life "lightsaber" though. If I finish it in time I will bring it with me in April when I visit with you. Its the size of a regular small laser pointer and runs off of 2 AAA batteries, but I have gotten the power output up to the point that it will light matches pop balloons etc. Its a side project of mine at work.

Of course lets remember what mainstream medicine tells us... "MC has a benign course...."

Yeah right

--Joe

Celie · Post by **Celie** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 11:53 am

Wow. I am glad you are ok! My eye doc warned me about that last week, but I did not realize how bad it can get. He told me that patients with IBDs have much greater risks of eye inflammation. Thanks for sharing your experience. If my eye gets red, I am running to the doc....

Celie

klhale · Post by **klhale** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 1:42 pm

Wow Joe! That is some eye tale. I never heard of anything like that. I have a bad eye that is caused by my MC. I have found that the worse my tummy, the worse my eye. They seem to go hand in hand so to speak. I have Iritis and use prednisone drops or Lotemax drops for inflammation daily.

I am curious to know-Did you tummy get worse before this happened?

karen

Pat · Post by **Pat** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 9:31 pm

Wow, Joe, so sorry this happened to you. I have never heard of this. Thanks for the heads up. It is always something. Hope you heal quickly.

Pat

Linda in BC · Post by **Linda in BC** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:34 pm

Joe, I am very, very glad to hear that you're Ok. and thanks fo the heads up. Do get rested up and well soon.

I, too, am curious to know how an IBD can affect the eye1 Does anyone understand this mechanism and if so, could you explain it??

Linda

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 10:47 pm

WOW, Joe. Scary stuff but glad you are doing better. Take care.

:bigbighug:

Post by **tex** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 11:53 am

Linda,

It's apparently genetics-related, (HLA-B27). The article at the first link below gives a pretty good coverage of information about this topic, and how it relates to several autoimmune diseases.

http://www.uveitis.org/medical/articles ... lab27.html

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12198697

Tex

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 1:33 pm

Tex I just looked back over my medical records and my rheumatologist did test me for the HLA-B27 gene and it was positive.

--Joe

Linda in BC · Post by **Linda in BC** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:02 pm

Thanks, Tex. Joe, I assume that they checked out your back pain to make sure it's not one of the diseases associated with the HLA-B27 gene, right?

Linda

Joefnh · Post by **Joefnh** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 2:09 pm

Linda that was the reason they tested me for HLA-B27 in the first place. I do have a lot of pain in my lower central back and the saacroiliac joints do show some degradation. The doctor is watching for and concerned about Ankylosing Spondylitis. This was another factor in me choosing the Imuran as Imuran will address the AS as well.

--Joe

Linda in BC · Post by **Linda in BC** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:03 pm

Ah. I figured that's why you might have been tested. Fingers crossed on that too.
Linda

Post by **tex** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 5:30 pm

Hmmmmmm. It may just be a coincidence, but quite a few people with MC seem to have lower back problems. I recall that when I was still reacting, it was a regular problem for me, for years. Now, it only seems to happen when I get careless and "abuse" my back, by not using good lifting techniques, or when I get sloppy with my posture.

Joe, while I was working this afternoon, I noticed that my eyes were photosensitive, they were watering, and sort of itchy, and they were really bothering me. Naturally, I started thinking "uveitis", and wondering how long I should wait before "doing something". Fortunately, though, after I got out of the sun, and a couple of hours went by, they were much better, so I suspect that it was just due to an overexposure to dust on Friday night, (while servicing equipment, with uncooperative wind). That probably irritated my eyes, and the bright sunlight today, (I didn't have any sun glasses handy), amplified the problem. I'll certainly "keep an eye" on them, though, just in case.

You know, it's kind of funny, in a cruel sort of way, but over the years, I've had a number of eye injuries, (usually involving things such as steel particles becoming embedded in my eye, due to freak accidents while grinding steel, or something similar that requires minor eye surgery), and virtually every time, it has happened during the time period between quittin' time on Friday afternoon, and Sunday night, when medical help, (especially ophthalmological help), is pretty much unavailable.

I suppose that Murphy's Law has something to do with that.

Thanks for reminding us of the risk - I had forgotten about it, until you mentioned it.

Tex

Foxnhound8 · Post by **Foxnhound8** » Sun Mar 06, 2011 6:19 pm

Joe!!! So glad you got help in time. Uveitis is such a difficult thing. Take care of yourself.

foxnhound