can you get your GP to send you to an ophthalmologist instead of sending you to the optometrist, since he sounded concerned, sounds like he would work with you? in either case, i'd keep pressing the issue if the steroid creme isn't working. if it were working, then no, you wouldn't need anything else perhaps, but if it's not working, then obviously you need something else.

and i know saying to keep after it is easier said then done. i've had to really "fight" with a few doctors to have my needs met / to be taken seriously,
and i hate it! i so want to work as a team, so hate any confrontation. started taking my husband with me to important appointments and that has helped a lot, i am definitely taken more seriously. i still do most of the talking, but having another person in the room, the doctors are more careful how they treat me / what they say to me. a number of other people here have said taking someone else with them to appointments is helpful. maybe you are already doing that? just keep up the good "fight", now you have 7000 others to back you up.


sue

Spondyloarthropathy, HLAB27 negative
Humira (still methylprednisone for flares, just not as often. Aleve if needed, rarely.)
LDN/zanaflex/flector patches over SI/ice
vits C, D. probiotics. hyaluronic acid. CoQ, Mg, Ca, K.
chiro
walk, bike
no dairy (casein sensitivity), limited eggs, limited yeast (bread)