Eye problem: PMR or GCA?

My transportation is limited. The eye dr. is in another town and I do not drive, am dependent upon someone to take me there.   I will attempt a referal from my dr. tomorrow. 

Re: omega 3 while on pred: I just checked a professional drug data base for interactions and found absolutely no interaction between the two drugs. I do not know where that Doctor dreamed that up. 

My rheumi and internist never said such things to me either. 

I am also interested if there is aconnection between prednisone and omega-3. While I don't take Omega-3 suplement , I eat a lot of fish which is the main source for Omega3. Please post what you find.

Thanks! We must have typed at the same time, since your answer was not posted when I started.

I really don't get it either. Nor, it would seem, does the Johns Hopkins Lupus Center, whose site says:

"Diet

A healthy diet is important for everyone, but it is especially important for people with lupus and those taking steroid medications. While taking steroids, your cholesterol, triglyceride, and blood sugar levels may increase. For these reasons, it is absolutely essential that you not increase your calorie intake and follow a low sodium, low-fat, and low-carbohydrate diet. You do not need to cut out all of the foods you love, but concentrate on eating whole grain breads and cereals and lean sources of protein such as chicken and fish.* When you need a snack, look to vegetables—they are low in sugar and calories and provide the perfect food for “grazing.” ..."

and the asterisk by fish has this footnote:

"* The omega 3 fatty acids in fish and fish oil also have anti-inflammatory properties, which may help to reduce some of the discomfort in your joints and muscles."

This is all from the section "Treating Lupus with Steroids" and you have to take it that they are saying fish and fish oils with steroids may well be beneficial.

Hardly a slightly dodgy blessing from the manufacturers of fish oil products but from a main-stream top level medical facility.

Thank you Eileen and everyone for your comments.  I will update you on my progress soon.

Thank you. That is good to know. Tomorrow I see my opthamologist which is not the one that told me I couldn't use Omega-3. I'm going to ask him if he's okay if I start taking omega-3 again and if he says he's okay with it then I'm getting back on it.

Some omega 3 foods are blood thinners and that can cause blood vessels to break. For example I can't take fish oil but I can eat fish and I can tolerate freshly ground flax seeds. My usual place for broken blood vessels is my hands - probably because I'm handling stuff and thus putting pressure on areas. And I had an eye vessel burst A couple times too - filled my whole eyeball with red - I didn't want to leave the house!

It can happen without any excess omega-3s! My husband gets it - can't imagine when HE last ate something rich in omega-3!

I don't think it's omega 3s, especially as I haven't been eating much fish lately and I don't take an omega 3 supplement (except what's in h--- oil).  This morning I woke up and it looked like my eye was swimming in blood, just awful.  I don't feel anything, though.  Wore sunglasses outside.

I have to avoid things like olives/olive oil.  Foods high in Vit E are blood thinners for me too. 

I hope the sun ?? was Shining!  On the other hand it's kind of cool to be an eccentric senior😆

I'm on Pradaxa - and use industrial quantities of oil by non-Italian standards. No-one has EVER said avoid olives! But then, they adjust your warfarin-type medication while you are on your usual diet so as long as you keep to that and don't then binge on something it doesn't matter. Pradaxa works in a different way and there is no need to adjust diet I am told.

But looking it up - I can't find anything suggesting that olives/olive oil in particular are very high in vit E. About a quarter of the almonds I eat. And a portion of sweet potato or avocado have more. One tablespoon of olive oil has just 7% of your RDA of vit E. I use that - I doubt most people do.

I have several food issues, and maybe the olive oil is incompatible when combined with something else in my diet.  Who knows!  I just know that I need to avoid it or the blood vessels in my hands start breaking. And I love olives!

There's been a thing about olive oil here recently, many of the brands sold to us are not pure olive oil, only it doesn't say on the labels.  To check, we were told to put our olive oil into the fridge, and if it didn't solidify it was adulterated.  Well, not only didn't the "special" oil my husband had been buying from a specialty shop remain completely liquid, but the "organic" oil from the supermarket only became slightly cloudy, so neither of them are pure oilve oil, though one seems  better than the other.  This is very concerning not only because it is fraudulent, but what about people who have sensitivities or allergies to certain things?

I find that fascinating because I put olive oil in the refrigerator and it always becomes cloudy and kind of thick and I thought that's just how it always reacted to refrigeration. Do you remember where you saw this so I can look up the article or the information of where you got it from?

Actually this is what we were told on the radio, or tv.  It's something that was first in the news a few years ago so I thought it had been sorted, but apparently it's worse than ever.  But I do remember in the old days that we kept our oils in the fridge, but not the olive oil because you couldn't pour it if it had been in the fridge.  As nowadays I only buy coconut oil (always solid) butter (always refrigerated) and olive oil (never refrigerated) I had no idea my olive oil was no longer pure.  I understand olive oil is one of, if not the, most adulterated foods.  I think googling olive oil fraud or counterfeit olive oil would bring up some articles.

Thanks for the info. I will. Of course I don't refrigerate my olive oil either.