Eye spy with my little Iritis
Hi there, Anyone who has a chronic illness knows that there are complications that come with it. And when it comes to a disease that causes a lot of inflammation, you better expect that it's not just going to quarantine itself to a very specific part of your body, like an elbow for instance. No.... unfortunately, it will share its lovely flaring inflammation with other parts of your body, like your other elbow or an organ. For me, that means my eyes. I have arthritis and inflammation in my eyeballs. Yay. Okay so in all truth, this inflammation, called Iritis, is how I actually what lead me to receive a spondylitis diagnosis. I had a flare up in my right eye which allowed for the right doctor to ask the right question, and BOOM! I got a referral to my rheumatologist who put the puzzle pieces together. Hello Spondylitis. And u p until recently I had a occasional occurrence of this iritis. Maybe one or two times a year. And always it happened in my ri...