Dazed and Confused

I've had eye problems since I was a kid. Certainly I would have been able to excel on competitive swimming if my eye were better acclimated to chlorine.

This morning I again had to visit the emergecy room. The Doc diagnosed me with Irisitis, whoch is the internal swelling of the colored part of the eye. What brings it on is severe trauma to the eye...like getting sand it it, like getting an infection due to pollution.

It hurts.

IRISITIS

Irisitis is the inflmation of the colored part of the eye surrounding the black pupil. Symptoms include swelling, redness, lesions, pain and loss of function. It is common to find no external causes of irisitis. Often the iris, itself, produces an over concentration of chemicals resulting in inflamation. If left untreated, the drainage area of the eye may close due to adhesions being formed from the production of cells and sticky protein. Pressure inside the eye can elevate causing glaucoma. The adhesions may also stick to the lens of the eye and change the shape of the pupil resulting in cataracts. Treatment irisitits in its early stages is the use topical steroids in the form of eye drops.