Hi,

I'm struggling to gather as much knowledge as possible before taking my son to see our local opthamologist.

My son will be 3 next week. We live in Ontario, about two hours from Toronto. My apologies in advance for the long post, but I need to vent.

Exactly 3 months ago I noticed his left eye was pink. My husband said it was probably a result of hitting it on his shoulder when they were roughhousing earlier in the day or from the chlorine in the pool. He also had a cold at the time and when it hadn't improved and we took him to our family doctor he was diagnosed with conjunctivitis and given Fucithalmic drops.

His eye did not improve and then he had an allergic reaction with facial swelling and hives. Eye went untreated as they thought the continued redness was a result of the reaction to the drops. Saw our family doctor the following week because his eye was still pink, he was crying with the photophobia and I had a BAD feeling. It was dismissed as part of being a kid with cold in the winter and that maybe I had never noticed that he had a droopy eye.

Two days later I took him to the local ER, saw the opthamologist on-call and he was diagnosed with Iritis and corneal adhesions. Prescribed Prednisolone every 4 hours, Maxidex at bedtime and Homatropine dialting drops twice a day. 10 days later, no improvement, so Prednisolone increased to every 2 hours. 10 days later, no improvement again, so booked for an examination under anesthia and a peri-orbital kenalog injection of a steriod. It was put off for a few weeks because of Christmas. When we went in for the pre-op on Jan.5 the opthamologist said it was looking much better, we could wean off the drops over the course of 3 weeks and we wouldn't need to come in again.

So, Jan. 26 was his last Prednisolone drop. I was nervous so I got my family optometrist to agree to see him every 3 months. She saw him the following day and said although she could see where the adhesions were, things looked fine. However, by Jan. 29 his eye was starting to get pink. The photophobia is starting to return. We went to our local clinic on Sat, Jan. 31 and was told to try and call the opthamologist on Monday and see about starting the drops again.

Some of the information I have been reading is scary, so I want to be proactive and ask the right questions. It is hard to know where to start. It looks like I should start looking for a specialist.

Aja