Parsplanitis

[lightningfoot speakin words]

Hey, I was at the eye doctor a month ago and we told him I had celiac disease and he said he had another patient with celiac disease that has parsplanitis like I do. we thought maybe there was a corrolation since it is such a rare eye disease and he has another patient with celiac. Do any of you guys have parsplanitis?

Thanks a bunch!!

[trents]

It would be difficult to establish a definite connection between the two statistically since pars plantis is such a rare disease. I note from a little quick internet research that some feel pars plantis is an immune mediated disease, which of course, Celiac disease is as well. As the US medical community is finally beginning to catch on to the frequency of Celiac disease, more and more associations with other immune mediated diseases are being uncovered. The picture is now emerging that autoimmune diseases tend to occur in bunches. That is, when you have one it is not unlikely that you have others.

Have you experienced in vision loss because of pars plantis? How are you being treated?

Steve

[Guest Robbin]

Thank you for this thread. I have had such a miserable time with my eyesight going on two years now and am extremely frustrated with drs. (again). I was told initially that it was natural age-related loss of vision, then amblyopia, another dr. said I just needed new glasses (his script was wayyyy off), that floaters were normal for my age (have had increased floaters since childhood), and that it was vision loss of unknown cause. An opthalmologist at a "world class teaching hospital" in Baltimore told me it was just from getting old, I was 43 at the time. I needed new glasses (this was my third pair in a yr.), and I had s slight cataract in one eye that would not need anything done to it for another 20 yrs. Well, my vsion deteriorated to 2/80 in left eye and 20/200 in my right eye with double vision WITH MY GLASSES!! A really great optician ( at the mall-believe it or not--) sent me to a surgeion who said I had fast-growing cataracts and I had them removed in April. The improvement in my vision was amazing with the new implants, but yikes, I developed a reaction to the lenses and am still on steroid drops. Now, I am getting "light flashes " in one eye and my vision is slowly getting weak again and I am wondering what in the heck is going on!? The dr. said to "keep an eye" on the left eye with the light flashes and watch for an increase in floaters. I know this is a sign of retinal detachment and I wonder if this could be the condition you describe, mayber underlying the other problems? Sorry this is so long, but I seriously am hoping someone who has experienced some of these problems can offer some advice. Are your symptoms anything like any of these with Pars planitis? I have never heard of this. It sounds like you have a good dr., you are lucky Thank you and take care.

[DrMom]

I have never heard of this either, but one quick trip to Open Original Shared Link will tell you all about it. It does not suprise me that it is something we can "get" since our entire body seems to be inflammed.

Dr Mom

[Guest Robbin]

Thank you Dr. Mom. I read the info and it made my head spin, as it sounds so similar to what I have been experiencing. I will print this out and give it to my dr. this week to see if this is a possibility.

[lightningfoot speakin words]

To answer have I had any vision loss, and what am I doing for treatment.

1. My doctor (if you wanted to know this) is Dr.Vitale. He is a pars planitis specialist at the moran eye center in Utah.

2. When I was first diagnosed, I was 20/50 in my left eye and 20/40 in my right. The reason this is bad is because up to that year my vision was 20/15 in my left and 20/10 in my right. So if that counts as vision loss then yes.

3. my treatment follows as: I go to the eye doctor maybe once every three months and I get evaluated. (my vision, my floaters, and the inflamation of the "snowballs" in my eyes.) If I am having vision problems or the inflamation in my eyes increases, I get a steroid shot in my eye. It helps immeadiatly. This coming visit I am probably going to get a shot because last time I almost got one but Dr. V decided against it. (which is probably a good thing because it kinda hurts)

Hope it Helps!

[trents]

I developed an eye disease in my mid-30's but I can't exactly remember the name of it. Something like "Kukendahl's spindle". Anyway, I have a real problem with glare, especially when looking out into a sun-lit window when I'm indoors or driving at night when streetlights are shining off wet pavement. I also developed a floater about two years ago. I'm now 55. I was diagnosed with Celiac disease about 2 1/2 years ago. Don't know if the eye problems are related to the Celiac disease or not.

Steve

[lightningfoot speakin words]

Now thats not good! That happens to someone in my class.