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Posted 6/15/2016 9:38 AM (GMT 0)
Oh dear. My eyes for a while have been slightly bloodshot with a yellowish band in them. It's not my liver as I've been keeping up with those levels.

2 days ago my acupuncturist recommended lying two soaked cottonballs on my eyes, soaked in this special tea they use to fight everything from cancer to ocular disease.

I woke up early this morning to full blown pink eye in my right eye, complete with discharge.

I've had an opthamology appointment set up for a while but it's not till July 15th, that's how long it took to get an appointment with a lyme literate eye doctor.

I haven't had pink eye since I was a tiny kid, but I know they put you on antibiotics....however, I'm already on omnicef and Septra DS.

Any suggestions? I'll go into see a regular doctor in two days but I never seem to get anywhere with them!! I'm at my wits end with this!
Posted 6/15/2016 2:10 PM (GMT 0)
First, call your opthamologist that you have the 15th appointment with and tell them that your eyes are super red, oozing and you are having trouble seeing. If they are worth a darn, they should have room for emergency patients. And maybe there is a cancellation. If not, ask where can you go for this "eye emergency?"

Do you have a llmd? He surely should be able to help you. Lyme conjunctivitis is not uncommon. And, if it is lyme, it is not contagious like the real pink eye is.
Posted 6/15/2016 2:27 PM (GMT 0)
Ugh, Raincity I feel for you. Sounds awful. I hope you can find some help. If anything I would hope the LL opthamologist could at least tell you what you can do for it.
Posted 6/15/2016 2:43 PM (GMT 0)
I like PeteZa's suggestions, but even a regular GP should be able to recognize Pink eye. I used to get it a lot as a kid with chronic Bart - almost didn't graduate to the next grade (4th grade) due to so much time spent out of school with pink eye and tonsillitis.
Posted 6/15/2016 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know if a regular doctor would prescribe the right thing for a lyme patient. Their antibacterial eye drops for pink eye sometimes have steroids in them. A lyme doc would know not to prescribe that.

I think the neosporin eye drops are generally prescribed for pink eye and they do not have steroids in them. They only fight bacterial conjunctivitis. Not viral or fungal eye problems.

Neomycin can be combined with steroids.

My daughter was little and got pink eye from school and this is how we found out she was allergic to neosporin. She was prescribed eye drops and her eyes got horribly worse.
Posted 6/15/2016 3:07 PM (GMT 0)
Stephiana made as a tea and put in the eye (by dropper) is what Buhner suggests for eye issues:buhnerhealinglyme.com/herbs/eye-decoction/

And I've read of others having success with using colloidal silver eye drops as well.

Those are the things I'd try first before going to any of the doctors around me while I had these infections as they no absolutely nothing about this.

But a wary patient can usually get a doctor to stay away from steroids, if they are persistent and then double check with the Pharmacist before filling the prescription to be sure it doesn't have steroids.
Posted 6/15/2016 5:51 PM (GMT 0)
What Traveler said about colloidal silver reminded me of a story that my LLMD's nurse once related when we were talking about how colloidal silver had been helping with my Lyme symptoms... Their office sells Argentyn 23 silver, so one of the doctors there tried it in his eyes when he had pinkeye. Very soon after using the silver, he had some serious pain in his eyes. Thinking he had done something wrong, he called the manufacturer for some guidance. They said that the pain he was feeling was the viruses basically exploding on his eye. Sure enough, the pain soon passed, and he was quickly back to normal, with no pinkeye symptoms.
Posted 6/16/2016 12:20 AM (GMT 0)
That's good information to have!! Serious pain in the eyes is very disturbing!
Posted 7/15/2017 7:05 AM (GMT 0)
I know this is an older thread but I noticed someone mentioned Argentyn 23. I sprayed some in my eyes this morning to see if it would help with the floaters and it's 8 hours later and I feel like I have pink eye. Scary...don't know if its die off or what???
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