The eyes have it

Currently I look like a drug addict. Not sure if I have mentioned it, but I developed what I thought would be a short-lived conjuncitivitis just days after my second miscarriage and a few months later its still going. It seemed fitting that I should develop a condition that made me look like I had been bawling my eyes out - even though I wasn't actually managing to cry. What should have taken 10 days to clear from one eye was still going at 6 weeks and then the second eye started up, as bad as the first.

This is a bad morning - just after an eye wash!

It is a daily problem. I start the day with crusted up eyes and end with sore, red, dry eyes. Closing my eyes at night (with inflamed eyelids that are all bumpy) feels like rubbing fine sandpaper over them.  It seems to have gone from conjunctivitis to 'dry eye' which I have been treating with lubricants and hot compresses (no nasty drugs) I have currently got a cold so things have taken a turn for the worse and we decided today to try to find an eye doctor here and get them checked out again. It is quite scary having chronically sore eyes with reduced vision and not knowing if maybe you might be going quietly blind. And trying to avoid entering into the medical system in a foreign country and all the forms and claims it will require.

We managed to find an eye doctor (contact of Alisons) who could give me an appointment and I have been started on some drugs. I have also seen a doctor for my cold (sinus infection) who was great. He is Alison's GP and just happens to be in the same street as us and is also an ear nose and throat specialist. He has prescribed a few things (thankfully not including any oral antibiotics).

Will keep you posted or blogged or whatever. And I'll add a photo to scare you.