Aussie girl, welcome to the board. I will share my frustrating eye story: I was having tearing redness and eventually light sensitivity. GP said it was allergies and gave me a spray. Then I wound up in the hospital for a fever and compromised immune system. My dad told me that it could be iritis (he has it) and to push for an ophthalmologist. So I'm in the hospital for 9 days, they tell me the ophthalmologist is out of town and no one can see me. So I suffer with this for 9 days recovering from who knows what. I had lots of antibiotics and it did not help my eye at all. So after I get released, I'm given an appt with an ophthalmologist who then within minutes diagnoses me with the WORST case of ocular herpes he's ever seen. He was aghast that the hospital did nothing to help me with my eye. Okay, so its not iritis, but it is still damaging to the eye. 18 months later I'm still putting drops in my eyes trying to calm it down.

So I hope you can get doctor to realize the urgency of your situation. It only takes one, but of course, finding that one doctor is the trick.

Micki
Mom to 9
Dx'ed Ocular Herpes, Sept. '08
Dx'ed AS May '09, suffering on and off since 1979
Dx'ed Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma May '08, relapse Oct '11