Hello everyone, and thanks in advance for
the help .
I have been having this recurring
condition now for about a year and a half.
It does not recurr often but has now
about three times in about a 2 year
peroid.
I get a sore throat which steadily gets
worse and then my one or both eyes seem to
get a very mucusy covering when I wake up
(Also very red as like pink eye).
I am wondering what this may be.
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spudhalvorson
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 11 Aug 2007 Posts: 2 Location: Long Beach, CA
Okay, so about 2 weeks ago I came down
with a sore throat whjich gradually got
worse and worse. It seemed isolated to one
side of my throat. Two Sundays past my
eyes then became inflammed and I had a
wealth of mucosal discharge from my eyes.
In the morning they were sticky/shut and
had to slowly be flushed with water. I
visited my campus health center and saw a
PA who seemed convinced my symptoms were
linked to allergies. She wasn't convinced
there was anything related to a bacterial
infection. I picked up eye drops and began
the 2 drops 4x daily regime. After a day
the itchiness and much of the discharge
was gone. After 3 days I was able to
return to work and after 5 days most of
the redness was gone. By Saturday the sore
throat I had disappeared. I thought I was
free and clear, but not so fast...
My application of the eye drops had become
a little infrequent, although still
occurring. By the following Thursday (a
week after I had returned to work) there
was red inflammation again, and then the
regionalized sore throat (right side)
re-occurred! As I had taken Claritin-D to
quell my histaminergic response I was now
convinced allergies were contributing to
my symptoms. I had to take yesterday off
(Friday) and today I'm okay. (Still a
little sore throat).
I'm fairly convinced there is something in
my cityscape that is highly allergic. I
know that there has been some work with my
building so I'll have to check on that.
However, I believe there may also be a
virus going around that is able to
reinfect the eyes. There is an adenovirus
associated with pink eye, but usually once
you have antibodies to these things,
that's it, you don't get it again.
However, without jumping to a conclusion
of some type of chronic irritating
retrovirus that cannot be stopped -I would
lean on looking further into your
allergies. It may be that we have a
allergy that makes us highly susceptible
to a virus (even one we are immune to)
that causes us to get sick again. (Like a
temporary differentiated T-cell
deactivator). What I mean is (and this
may be totally bugs thinking), maybe your
basophils get increased to the point
(during an allergic onset) that a
co-occurring virus, (like one left on your
bedsheets or something you come in contact
with) is able to take hold even through
you have the antibodies to fight it. Maybe
the allergic reaction fights your body's
ability to fight it off!
I'm drinking green tea and looking to get
an air purifier to place by my bed. I
really like the effects of Claritin-D for
the short haul, but it caused some
insomnia with me last night so I'm going
to be watching that. I'm from Fresno, and
even with our ag-pollution and asthma
rates, I have never experienced anything
like this; I'm normally a very healthy
guy. Contact me directly if you want,
Spud
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elizmcc
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 3
Red Eyes/sore Throat Posted: 10-30-07 01:05am
There must be some virus going around -
that seems to have a 2 week cycle.
On Wednesday, the school sent my 7 year
old son home with pink eyes - we took him
to doctor and got drops so he could go
back to school. They cleared up by
Sunday. He had general cold symptoms, but
generally felt OK.
The following Tuesday (6 days after son's
first symptoms) my husband and I both woke
up with red itching goopy eyes, with
general head cold symptoms, slight sore
throat congested head, but the eyes were
worst symptom.
I went to doctor and got antibiotic drops.
My husband did not. After 5 days, my
eyes were still red, but getting better.
His were perfectly clear with no drops.
We thought we were out of it.
Sunday night (6 days after our first red
eye symptoms) the red eyes came back with
a vengence, and with a severe sore throat
for both of us. It is now Monday night
and our throat is still very sore and eyes
still red and goopy. Hopefully this
clears up in another day or so like yours
did!
My son, however, had no such relapse.
Ahhh, youth!
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elizmcc
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 3
Found This Page That Best Describes What I Ave Posted: 10-30-07 01:19am
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