Re: Bandy is going blind

[Lernermichelle]

Hi, Kerry. All I know about uveitis is that steroids are needed, topically and sometimes (I think, but am not sure) internally, to take down the inflammation before blindness occurs.  It happened so fast with my horse Pepsi that by the time we got an eye specialist and she got the right treatment she had already lost sight in the eye.  Her eye, though blind, would still get inflamed and painful sometimes (it would look sort of cloudy) and we would need to put steroids in it until it got better.   Have you done internet research on it? Has he talked about internal steroids as well as external steroids?   Michelle   In a message dated 4/29/2006 7:07:39 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:   I took Bandy to an eye specialist in Dallas on Fri...as his sight has just been getting worse in the last week or so...They changed his meds and increased them to 4x a day..also put him on zithromax for 5 days...he goes back in 2 weeks for a re-check..The doctor did say that we might get some of his vision back, but I don't think he was really that hopeful...I can get him to play with his string, but I don't know if he sees the shadow or what...I am just glad he will do that...I am going to keep everything the same for him so he won't have any trouble finding anything... Michelle, if you see this let me know if you have any more info on the anterior uveitis..the doctor did say, that he might have posterior, too...He said there was so much inflammation in there, he couldn't really tell... Please pray for Bandy everyone... Kerry and Bandy