That might have been me you were thinking about. Years ago I was tested for
some kind of arteritis at John Hopkins. The pain was terrible and by eye
sight was being affected. When I told the doctor he sent me to a
ophthalmologist who discovered the eye pressure thing. Well, they never
found what they were looking for - thank goodness as it was considered
deadly (Takayasu's arteritis. But so was lupus back in those
days.............. Shame they didn't pick up on the lupus but I don't think
they were looking for it. When I was dx'ed with lupus they used my medical
history and that episode was one of the places the doctor referred to as a
major lupus flare and questioned why John Hopkins never even tested or
considered lupus.

The problem started with pain in my neck. I think I have a lymph node under
the artery that swells and puts pressure on the artery. It feels like a
killer earache but it's the artery because you can follow it with your
finger. The pain is really bad and although I can move my neck/head when it
occurs I don't want to move it. John Hopkins tried to say it was an inflamed
strap muscle because they could find nothing conclusive after about 6 days
of trying. But it has hit several times since then and I find it does go
away especially if I have been given a round of antibiotics. I still say it
is from the lymph node and it's my body!!!! But it does screw up the
pressure in my eye. (And in those days testing the pressure in my eyes was
terrible. At John Hopkins they inserted little disks onto my eyeballs which
were connected to tubes to a machine. The ophthalmologist wasn't quite as
bad he used a tube that looked like a thermometer, cocked it and fired a
thing into my eye that bounced back up the tube. Damn, it hurt!! Now they do
it with a little puff of air. Isn't it wonderful when they actually improve
something!)

But the kicker to all of this is I now have trigeminal neuralgia. It is on
the same side as the "other" problem. I often wonder if somehow it is
connected.
Bev

In article <j8Mpd.357053$%k.154729@pd7tw2no>, Shelagh <noyb@myob.bc.ca>
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Our group had a talk from an eye doctor recently, and he said that
glaucoma can nearly always be successfully treated once it is diagnosed.

Shelagh;
The increased pressure was found during a routine eye exam; the Optho guy
said my optic nerve and blood supply were 'wonderful' and so healthy and
then he tells me of the increase in pressure.  He said he is 99% sure I do
not have glaucoma and I am to come back in 6 months to go through the whole
thing.  Carol