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Such a great forum here, with so many supportive members. I have been reading for months.
I could write a book with details here, but I will do my best to keep it short. I am here to gain support, ideas.... anything, for both myself, and my son. My son has had issues recently, and it is taking it's toll on my own health, but more importantly his. He is an otherwise healthy 8 year old boy.
Long story short, we had an issue with inflammation that then caused an infection. I don't believe it started as an infection, but I guess it could have. I did not see obvious signs of infection at first, just inflammation, but there was definitely an infection with the obvious signs later on. We did a couple rounds of generic Maxitrol drops per an Ophthalmologist. Again, I could go into more details why we did what we did, but it was about 7-8 day sessions of giving him the drops, twice. With a 10 day gap between them. That very first session, we were giving him the drops very frequently as per the doctor for the first few days. I think he was concerned about the state of the infection. After those first few days we tapered off to a normal 4 or so times a day. It was probably a grand total of 14-16 days of giving him the drops, with a week or so break in the middle. All of this was done with the Opth approval.
After another Opth appt, there was no infection, but he prescribed some OTC Alaway. I didn't go into detail before, but I had already tried Zaditor on him, but without much success with it, I didn't continue. Perhaps gave him those drops 3 or 4 times max. That was well before the infection and maxitrol drops though. I tried the Alaway a couple times, but stopped as it didn't seem to help, and perhaps even made things worse.
Above was a very brief description of what has transpired over the course of 3+ months. I have done much reading and research, and I am scared to death. I am a young'ish father who fears the worst.
My son is still suffering with something. We have since seen a new Ophthalmologist who now questions the Maxitrol and allergy drop usage prescribed by the other doctor. He has instructed us to stop all medications, including oral antihistamines and allergy drops. I had already started this, with the exception of the occasional oral antihistamine, as sometimes I thought it was helping. I already had PF Systane tears that I would give him occasionally. The doc said to only do the PF Systane for now. The doc did mention Bleph, but also backtracked a little on that. The doc wants me to try and document/photograph my boy when he is at his worst. When we had him in the office, it wad during the day when he usually looks his best.
Where we are today: My boy has all the signs of dry eye, and less the signs of allergy. He looks much better in the mornings, than he does in the evenings. No gunk, or crusty stuff ever, not even morning. However, in the evening time, he gets very inflamed, red eyes. Especially after taking a shower. It is worse in one eye. If he spends time outdoors, then much later that night it will be worse. If he is in really bad shape one night, you can still see signs of it the next day. If he has a good night, the next day he will look almost normal, only to start to look bad again later that night.
I snuggle and hug my boy so much. I am scared of what I have potentially caused, or what could be. I want my boy to be normal again. This has been the worst 3 months of my life.
You guys are so smart. Let me know if you have any advice.
I could write a book with details here, but I will do my best to keep it short. I am here to gain support, ideas.... anything, for both myself, and my son. My son has had issues recently, and it is taking it's toll on my own health, but more importantly his. He is an otherwise healthy 8 year old boy.
Long story short, we had an issue with inflammation that then caused an infection. I don't believe it started as an infection, but I guess it could have. I did not see obvious signs of infection at first, just inflammation, but there was definitely an infection with the obvious signs later on. We did a couple rounds of generic Maxitrol drops per an Ophthalmologist. Again, I could go into more details why we did what we did, but it was about 7-8 day sessions of giving him the drops, twice. With a 10 day gap between them. That very first session, we were giving him the drops very frequently as per the doctor for the first few days. I think he was concerned about the state of the infection. After those first few days we tapered off to a normal 4 or so times a day. It was probably a grand total of 14-16 days of giving him the drops, with a week or so break in the middle. All of this was done with the Opth approval.
After another Opth appt, there was no infection, but he prescribed some OTC Alaway. I didn't go into detail before, but I had already tried Zaditor on him, but without much success with it, I didn't continue. Perhaps gave him those drops 3 or 4 times max. That was well before the infection and maxitrol drops though. I tried the Alaway a couple times, but stopped as it didn't seem to help, and perhaps even made things worse.
Above was a very brief description of what has transpired over the course of 3+ months. I have done much reading and research, and I am scared to death. I am a young'ish father who fears the worst.
My son is still suffering with something. We have since seen a new Ophthalmologist who now questions the Maxitrol and allergy drop usage prescribed by the other doctor. He has instructed us to stop all medications, including oral antihistamines and allergy drops. I had already started this, with the exception of the occasional oral antihistamine, as sometimes I thought it was helping. I already had PF Systane tears that I would give him occasionally. The doc said to only do the PF Systane for now. The doc did mention Bleph, but also backtracked a little on that. The doc wants me to try and document/photograph my boy when he is at his worst. When we had him in the office, it wad during the day when he usually looks his best.
Where we are today: My boy has all the signs of dry eye, and less the signs of allergy. He looks much better in the mornings, than he does in the evenings. No gunk, or crusty stuff ever, not even morning. However, in the evening time, he gets very inflamed, red eyes. Especially after taking a shower. It is worse in one eye. If he spends time outdoors, then much later that night it will be worse. If he is in really bad shape one night, you can still see signs of it the next day. If he has a good night, the next day he will look almost normal, only to start to look bad again later that night.
I snuggle and hug my boy so much. I am scared of what I have potentially caused, or what could be. I want my boy to be normal again. This has been the worst 3 months of my life.
You guys are so smart. Let me know if you have any advice.
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