Lyme disease and eye and vision problems - (16K)
Art Doherty
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as of 6 March 1999
Table of Contents
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1. Ocular manifestations associated with Lyme disease as evidenced by
medical and/or scientific abstracts.
2. Eye and vision problems as described by Lyme disease patients.
3. Resources for information about Lyme disease.
4. Resources for information about ocular diseases.
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1. Ocular manifestations associated with Lyme disease:
MEDLINE search pages:
Medscape's Search MEDLINE
http://www.medscape.com/misc/FormMedlineInfLive.html
National Library of Medicine: Internet Grateful Med Search Screen
http://igm.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/doler?account=++&password=++
Legend for table below:
N1 = Number of MEDLINE abstracts found for query:
disease/condition AND (lyme OR burgdorferi OR borreliosis)
example query: choroiditis AND (lyme OR burgdorferi OR borreliosis)
Query for general acticles on the subject:
"ocular manifestations" AND (lyme OR burgdorferi OR borreliosis)
N1 disease/condition
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1 acute bacterial infections of the eye
1 Argyll-Robertson pupil (bilateral Leber's neuroretinitis stellata)
3 epitheliopathy
1 acute multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy
2 acute posterior multifocal placoid pigment epitheliopathy (APMPPE)
1 bilateral paralytic mydriasis
1 birdshot chorioretinopathy
36 blindness
2 unilateral blindness
1 branch retinal artery occlusion
1 choriocapillaritis (so-called pigment epitheliitis)
9 choroiditis
disseminated choroiditis
1 bilateral acute confluent disseminated choroiditis
1 bilateral diffuse choroiditis
1 multifocal choroiditis
multifocal choroiditis and panuveitis (MCP) -
http://www.immunology.meei.harvard.edu/white_dot_syndromes.htm
2 Cogan's syndrome
33 conjunctivitis
4 follicular conjunctivitis
1 bilateral follicular conjunctivitis
1 bilateral palpebral follicular conjunctivitis
keratoconjunctivitis
1 nonspecific follicular conjunctivitis
14 cornea*
1 corneal ulcer
1 diminished corneal sensation
3 cornea* opacity/opacities
cranial nerve VI palsy - http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/SECT6E.HTM
3 sixth nerve palsy
2 sixth nerve paresis
1 bilateral sixth nerve palsies
1 isolated fascicular abducens nerve palsy
cranial nerve VII (facial nerve) palsy -
http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/SECT6F.HTM
3 seventh nerve palsy
1 seventh nerve paresis
21 facial nerve palsy
4 cystoid macular oedema (or edema)
6 diplopia or double vision
6 endophthalmitis
1 unilateral endophthalmitis
1 floaters
1 Horner's syndrome
2 intra-ocular infections
1 intraocular inflammation
4 iridocyclitis
5 iritis
25 keratitis
4 bilateral keratitis
1 immune stromal (interstitial) keratitis (ISK)
5 interstitial keratitis (IK)
1 microbial keratitis
1 neurotrophic keratitis
1 nummular keratitis
1 peripheral ulcerative keratitis
2 keratoconjunctivitis
1 keratoconus
5 nystagmus
2 ocular disease
1 oculomotor palsies
1 oculomotor paralysis
1 isolated oculomotor nerve paralysis
4 opacities or opacity
3 corneal opacities [see also above]
1 multiple focal, nebular opacities
1 vitreous opacities
1 nummular nonstaining opacities
7 ophthalmoplegia
2 internuclear ophthalmoplegia
6 optic atrophy
4 optic disk edema or optic disc edema
1 optic disk edema with a macular star
15 optic nerve
1 optic nerve abnormalities
1 optic nerve atrophy
3 optic nerve disease
1 optic nerve disorders
14 optic neuritis
1 bilateral optic neuritis
1 chiasmal optic neuritis
1 isolated optic neuritis
sub acute myelo-optico neuritis -
http://freespace.virgin.net/me.support/text_web/speeches.htm
8 optic neuropathy
1 ischemic optic neuropathy
3 orbital myositis
2 panophthalmitis
6 panuveitis
4 papillitis
1 meningopapillitis
2 unilateral papillitis
1 meningopapillitis
15 papilloedema or papilledema
3 bilateral papilledema
2 meningitis with papilledema
1 paresis of the eye muscles
1 perivenous infiltrates
4 periorbital edema or periorbital oedema
1 photophobia
relative afferent pupillary defect (RAPD) -
http://www.immunology.meei.harvard.edu/toxo.html
4 retinal detachment
2 exudative retinal detachments
1 retinal pigment epithelium detachments
1 parapapillary pigment epithelium detachments
1 retinal haemorrhage
6 retinal vasculitis
1 retinal perivasculitis
1 retinal white spots
7 retinitis
11 chorioretinitis
1 unilateral chorioretinitis
9 neuroretinitis
3 retinopathy
2 proliferative retinopathy
2 sarcoidosis (with eye involement)
5 scleritis
3 episcleritis
5 pars planitis
1 snowbanking (pars planitis)
1 symblepharon
6 endophthalmitis
1 unilateral endophthalmitis
6 temporal arteritis
46 uveitis
5 anterior uveitis
1 bilateral uveitis
5 intermediate uveitis
2 posterior uveitis
2 visual loss
1 vision loss
2 vitreitis
9 vitritis
1 spiderweb vitritis
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2. Eye and vision problems as described by Lyme disease patients.
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as of 6 March 1999
Source: DejaNews archives of the sci.med.diseases.lyme USENET usegroup.
DejaNews
http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml
General terms and short phrases:
eye problems
eye difficulties
eye symptoms
eye troubles
eye sight has declined
vision difficulties
vision disturbances
visual disturbances
vision loss
vision problems
visual problems
vision seems to be deteriorating
vision symptoms
vision was blurry
vision was impaired
black spots in my vision
blurred vision
blurry vision
blurred and spotty vision
cloudiness of vision
difficulty with vision
double vision
experiencing difficulty with vision
flashes of light in my vision
having vision only "part-time"
haywire vision
'jumping' vision
loss of vision in one eye
losing vision in one eye
lost the vision in one eye
lost partial vision in one eye
problem with my vision
problems with my vision
some difficulty with vision
practically blind
near blindness
poor eyesight
eyesight going bad in one eye
losing eye sight
permanent sight loss
eye twitches
eye jerks
eye tremors
eyeballs "shaking"
eyelid twitching
jerky eye movement
twitching eye
eye blurring
blurry [eyes]
blurriness in the eye
cloudiness
dry eye
gritty feeling in my eyes
droopy eye
lid would droop
droopy eyelid
puffy eyes
eye swelling
puffy eyelid
swelling of eyelid
inflammation of the eyelid
eye inflammation
eye burning
bloodshot eyes
red eyes
eye pain
eye hurts
eye's hurt
red and aching eyes
eye strain
eye discomfort
eye pressure
pressure behind eye
light sensitivity
sensitivity to light
photosensitivity
floaters
flashes
flashes of light
flashing around the peripherals of vision
light shows
after images
blisters on the surface of the eye
color distortion
depth perception problems
hard time focusing
increased tearing
pink eye
pupils dilate unevenly
wonky eye
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Longer phrases:
I lost my depth perception...
My vision is starting to get darker in both eyes and in the left eye it
looks like looking through a plate of glass with water on it.
I also have a pain or burning in my left temple and around my left eye
from cheek to around my temple area...
I seem to notice (or see) more shadows and highlights in the extreme
lower left corner of my left eyes vision and several weeks after this
started it has also started to affect my right eye.
Am getting cloudiness and deminished sight in the left eye
...about a year before I was diagnosed with LD, I lost the vision in my
right eye after a few days of cloudiness of vision and sever headaches.
...now am losing sight in left eye. Like looking into fog. After I sit
for a while and stand up, my head feels full and the eyesight in left
eye gets worse, but goes back to "normal" after standing for a while.
He has also developed photosensitivity to the point that he wears
sunglasses in the house...
...she woke up and could not move her left eye to the left....then could
not move the eye upward.
Now I'm seeing a flash in my left eye whenever I move my head.
I've felt pressure in or behind my eyes for several years...
...the eye feels swollen.
I've recently been diagnosed after noticing problems with my vision in
one eye.
Left eye red swollen...
I couldn't go to a Movie because the light radiating from the screen
would aggravate my eye.
Trying to read a page of newsprint with that eye was (is) like looking
at it through a window screen. Parts of the individual letters are
lighter than others. Also there is color distortion, especially with
the color red.
One of my eyes would feel like it was dropping down. Actually rolling
down. I would be watching TV and would *feel* and then visually notice
that one of they eyes was not looking at the intended target.
...eye pressure in one eye that comes and goes when I am stressed or
when I'm at a movie theater or the computer terminal.
It was like the contrast was misadjusted. I could see, but I couldn't
make out faces unless the light was just right. For months, I couldn't
see my reflection in the mirror well enough to make out my face.
I have had what seemed to be a gray curtain pulled over my vision...
...I felt that my right eye wasn't much good at all.
Yes, I had (actually _have_ - I think I got re-infected) problems like
night-blindness, poor focussing, floaters, small specks of light.
Antibiotics helped all of these problems.
I find I get clear, jelly-like bubbles or blisters forming on surface of
my eyeball. Anyone know what these could be? When they go they leave a
yellowing of the whites of my eye at he spot they came up and also a
little bloodshotting.
...palsy that causes my right eye to flip straight up toward the top of
my head (pretty bizarre thing... people come and look when that happens)
is not as badly out of control as it used to be.
I've had waking episodes where I lost partial vision
I see a "snow/blizzard" of tiny black and white dots or pinpricks of
light, like a hazy veil in front of my eyes.
I went blind in my left eye.
I once had a crescent moon shaped area in one eye with beautiful colors
running through it. Couldn't understand why it was still there when my
eyes were closed.
I went blind for a two years, and had horrible eye pain even after my
vision returned.
I lost the vision in my right eye for a few days.
...one eye flips directly upward, the other eye drifts left...
...my vision in left eye remains at tunnel vision.
I see things out of the corner of my eye sometimes that scares me. But
I think they are floaters causing the normal lighting to make things
apprear to jump
...intense pressure in my head and behind my left eye
I seem to notice (or see) more shadows and highlights in the extreme
lower left corner of my left eyes vision and several weeks after this
started it has also started to affect my right eye.
...my right eye is so blurry and I have had total loss of vision 5 times
in the last 4 yrs,
I've had... eye problems such as flashing lights, lost of periphial
vision, ...hyper-sensitivity to light...
...I woke up one morning and couldn't focus my right eye. It lasted
around half the day.
My right eye lost focus again.
Did anybody with L.D. ever have eyelid lag? I did not get Bell's Palsy,
but from time to time my right eye lid has opened slower than the left
upon awakening.
"Pain in left eye for 4 months......the pain is in and around the eye
socket as well as the eye itself. Pain is like a burning sensation, and
the eye also feels "droopy"....as if a "lazy eye", ...
...eye-balls feeling like they are gonna burst...
...her distance vision is getting poorer every day.
I have begun to see occasional flashes in the periphery of my right eye.
First one dark blotch in one eye, then one in the other a week later...
by the end of the summer I had little swimming 'snakes' everywhere I
looked.
I have consistently had problems with my eyes, mainly tingling,
pressure, and stinging.
I occasionally have blurred vision or double vision, and I've lost
vision almost completely twice, several months apart during the last
year.
At one point, I started getting tunnel vision in my left eye.
...the flickering of the fluorescent lights causing a mild seizure,...
...I lost my vision.
My color vision is also distorted...
Yes, I had...problems like night-blindness, poor focussing, floaters,
small specks of light.
My vision,... went on me...
Night vision went to hell...
Blurred, unclear vision, lots of spots and floaters, feeling like I was
in a fog.
My first major symptom was vision loss...
I see a shimmering effect around the edges of objects as well as things
sem to shake back and forth. Basically my vision seems to flutter and
objects will seem to move in my outside vision.
My vision has been somewhat blurry (always perfect in the past), with
more "floaters", and persistent dry, red eyes.
I lost most of my vision twice during what the Neurologist called
"Complex" migraines. Same black spaces, with pretty bright lights all
around.
Today I had an episode where my whole peripheral vision was consumed by
these "floaters".
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3. Resources for information about Lyme disease:
Lyme Disease Foundation (LDF)
http://www.lyme.org/
The LDF may be contacted for a doctor referral in your area.
mailto:lym...@aol.com
The Lyme Disease Network
http://www.lymenet.org/
Lyme Alliance
http://www.lymealliance.org/
Lyme Disease Information Resource (LDIR)
http://x-l.net/Lyme/
THE NEW LYME DISEASE
Diagnostics Hints and Treatment Guidelines for Tick Borne Illnesses
by Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., M.D. - 12th Edition, 1998 -
(complete - 23 pages)
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6772/burrascano-12th.txt
or
http://guidelines.LymeNet.org/ (complete)
or
http://www.lyme.org/otherdis/burrascano.html (individual section links)
Lyme Disease - Conn's Current Therapy - 1997 (7 pages)
Method of Joseph J. Burrascano, Jr., M.D.
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6772/conns.txt
Lyme Disease Risk Assessments - done by the U.S. Army (1983-1996)
http://www.utech.net/users/10766/lyme.htm
Lyme Disease in the United States and Canada
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6772/lyme.html
Lyme Disease Resources
http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/6772/resources.html
Cheryl Orlowski's Lyme disease web page
http://www.aero-vision.com/~cheryl/lymes.html
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4. Resources for information about ocular disease:
Handbook of Ocular Disease Management - Home Page
http://www.revoptom.com/handbook/hbhome.htm
Review of Optometry Online
http://www.revoptom.com/
American Academy of Optometry
http://www.aaopt.org/
American Journal of Ophthalmology
http://www.ajo.com/
Digital Journal of Ophthalmology
http://www.djo.harvard.edu/
Digital Ophthalmic Slide Collection
http://mcrcr4.med.nyu.edu/Ophth/dosc/
ICD-9-CM Codes for Ophthalmology
DISORDERS OF THE EYE AND ADNEXA (360-379)
http://www.nova.edu/~kabat/codes.html
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