Eye Problems

any ideas?

That was my doc's advice, and I have.

Chalazions suck by the way but the little hard ball in your eyelid goes aways...eventually.

However, when I got into the habit of washing my eyelids when taking a shower, it went away within a week or two. Ten-plus years later, it has yet to return.

Out of nowhere, my left eye has a bunch of brown spots in it. The iris has been varying shades of green, yellow, and orange as I've grown up, but now the orange/brownish spots are growing. It looks kind of like an algae pond.

Does anyone know why this might be happening? Should I see an opthamologist?

This is my eye
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7043/6848131338_81627461e5_o.jpg

I'd see either an ophthalmologist or a GP, just for the reassurance of knowing what it is. Do you need to go in for any kind of wellness check soon?

Insurance doesn't cover preventative/wellness visits so I only go in when there's something wrong, like super wrong. Do you think there's something super wrong?

A thread I started a couple of years ago may be related--I remember spots was one of the three scenarios my ophthalmologist presented to me before I developed this other thing.

Floaters

Do you think there's something super wrong?

No, but it would trouble me if it were my eyes doing it. I was reading about iris pigment flaking off and clogging up ducts the other day - my mom has glaucoma, so I get eye paranoia sometimes. If your vision seems just as sharp and you aren't noticing any other strange things (dry eyes, headaches?), maybe just mention it the next time you go in for some other thing or see if there's a community wellness day coming up where they do diabetes screening because they will look at your eyes as part of that?

Some brown iris spots can be serious, others aren't. Best let a professional look at it just in case. It's better to be poor and healthy than not go see a specialist and be sorry.

http://www.ehow.com/facts_6381923_causes-brown-spots-eye_.html etc

I guess I should go back to the doc. This sucks. Thanks for your help though.

We should start some kind of ilxcare fund for you American ilxors. If you need a loan to go see this doc, just ask ilx and we'll think of something.

Is it still preventative if you have symptoms though? You can't know if it's serious or not, hence, this should be covered, no?

Not saying it IS serious though, don't worry. Just get it checked out to be sure.

Only if it's not a mandate, this is America after all ;)

I'm just not too cool with going blind!

Insurance doesn't cover preventative/wellness visits so I only go in when there's something wrong, like super wrong

this really sucks :(

i hope it's not serious!

It's only serious in that my eye is turning a completely different color, and I guess that's probably just vanity on my part? If it starts to be totally wonky I'll go on. I promise.

I knew you shouldn't have burped that demon. Tell us if you start getting scaly, okay?

ok.

my eye is turning a completely different color

Maybe you're turning into David Bowie? (before anyone corrects me, I know his eyes aren't really different colours, and the cause was him getting socked in the eye at school)

Not impossible...

You might find the wikipedia page on heterochromia helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterochromia_iridum

Bowie's heterochromia, AFAIK, is a from a chronic post-traumatic Horner's syndrome. Oculosympathetic denervation makes the affected eye paler, doesn't cause brown spots. Most heterochromic people have a congenital Horner's.

Many normal irises have patches of different colors. The pattern can change with time. I would guess that's probably more likely in your case than having Lisch nodules or some other more worrisome cause.

LLL, message me if you want to go into more detail offline. I'm a neurologist, not an ophtho, but I can try to help.

Thank you so much!! ILX's generosity never fails to surprise and impress me.

Are you OK now? Been to the eyologist yet?

I guess I'm ok but I sure haven't been to the eye-ologist. It has only been like 3 days! My eyes feel a little better, but they still look weird.

Over the summer I've been getting really bad headaches, super sensitive to sunlight/glare/sharp contrast (sitting in a dark theater watching a movie, etc), struggling to read road signs at night. I figured I needed a new prescription so went to the optomotrist. When they did the chart, I started to panic because I could not see letters of any size with my left eye. She dropped bright yellow dye in my eyes, took a look and told me to get to a cornea specialist.

I've got some degenerative thing called map-dot-fingerprint dystrophy in both eyes. Corneal scrape surgery scheduled for just after Thanksgiving for my left eye and then probably a month later for the right. Really trying not to freak completely out, but holy crap.

Had the second procedure done on Monday - it's as unpleasant as it sounds. Bandage contact is giving me laughably bad sort of 2d vision today, though somehow I was able to refill an olive oil bottle pretty cleanly.

yikes
i'm sorry! that sounds awful. at least you can still see, right?

Kinda sorta today. It took about two weeks for my left eye to stabilize, so I'm hoping for the same for the right one. Loving the zoom today. And super sized font on my kindle.

Bandage contact removed this morning, hooray. They dropped fluorescent yellow dye in so it looked like I drew on myself with a highlighter.