Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Do I Really Have IBS?

Hi Gloria, thanks for reading my super long post. And I think I am just like you because as soon as I get better, BOOM!, something else happens. And that's the kind of luck I've always had whether it be health related or not. There's always something holding me back, or at least trying to hold me back.

I hate to be pitied because I am so NOT the damsel in distress. Here's the latest.

I wear hard contact lenses (I have keratokonus which basically means that my cornea is not flat and curved like it should be and so the hard lenses kind of squish 'em back to normal). I started wearing them back in '01 and I was using Boston Solution for hard lenses. In '03, my doc made me switch from Boston Solution and started using Complete Moisture Plus for soft lenses because the solution is thinner and my hard lenses would retain the moisture better. About 2 weeks ago I ran out of the solution and searched high and low for it but couldn't find it. So I went online and discovered that the solution had been recalled! Why you ask? Because it was contaminated in China and people who've been using this solution have been diagnosed with something called Acanthamoeba keratitis, which can lead to permanent vision or blindness. WTF???? So I started reading the symptons and holy $hit, I have some of the symptons--sensation of something in the eye (always the case with both of my eyes!), stinging or redness (yup, that's me), swollen eyelids (happened to my left eyelid maybe 2 years ago).

I have an appointment with my eye doc next Thursday. I look up to the skies and say, "Go ahead. Throw whatever else you got for me..."

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Wendy IBS A thru Z
Taking it one day at a time...

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