Just been diagnosed with an ulcer on my cornea, is this common for APS sufferers or completly unrelated?

[AllyB68]

[MaryF Administrator]

Hi there, they need to check you out for sjogrens syndrome! This is quite common with APS. Hope it heals up soon. Mary F x

[AllyB68]

Thank you Mary, I have got daily check ups with the eye doc so I will ask tomorrow.

[Izzchick]

I've had this several times, it first occurred at the time when I tried wearing contact lenses as a teenager ,and at the time was thought to be related to the herpes/cold sore virus.

I now wonder if it was related to having dry eyes as a result of my autoimmuneness; my eyes were extremely dry on Schirmers testing last year, and i've never got on with contact lenses.

Hope this helps, AllyB68.

[siveinvan]

Hmmm, I had some oddball thing called Map-dot Dystrophy about 12 years ago. Had to have my corneas resurfaced with a laser. I wonder if there is a connection with Hughes. Wouldn't be surprised.

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I just had one in April of this year. Not sure of the cause but two things specialist mentioned were the APS/Lupus as a cause and also herpes virus is known to cause it, but they didn't test for anything. I took drops for a few weeks and it went away. Felt like it was coming back so I used drops for a few days and it seems fine now.

I have noticed that my eyes are drier lately than they have in the past, and get irritated and sore, redness as well.