Scleritis Relief, hope, possibly !?

Hi

I have been doing research too... I have RA... so mine is associated with RA. I started taking tumeric.. bilberry.. vitaminD.. ginger... 600mg ibuprofen ...honey and cinnamon.. 3 months symptoms episcleritis has stopped... I don't take vitamin C but will start that too. I love how you are researching! I am not giving up!

Regarding your tests... check if your sed rate or CRP are elevated for many years they said no lupus no RA...but always had elevated inflammation markers.. just because those tests are negative... doesn't mean you don't have it 😐. I have been doing the ibuprofen and supplements about 4 months. I hope it stays away. I will not take the prednisone ... biologics .. too scared and they are very dangerous.. all natural for now.

UPDATE on OJ:

So one day ago i posted this thread

Symptoms"

1day ago

Redness:red

Deep pain: 0-10....5

Pain to the touch: 0-10......3-4

straining sensation:0-10....4

Tonight 9:30pm

Redness: Not bright red anymore, dull  red eye but i can tell the redness is receding and diminishing 

Deep pain behind the eye : on a scale of 0-10... 1....not enough to take something for it

Pain to the touch: 0-10.....1 not enough to take something for it

Pain to the touch 0-10......1ish

took 2 asprins early morning just as a precaution

Ya'll I'm really starting to think this  there is something to this... and all i have been doing is drinking 4-5 swallows of oj  every hr or so....and asprin when need it..

Now im not saying this is a "cure" to an underlying condition...by all means you should talk to a doc about that but this is helping so much with the scleritis and its effects.. 

I will update in a couple of days and let ya'll know how its going....Im going to stick with it for at least a wk to test this out. and if it works then i will continue to enjoy the taste of OJ!!

just out of curiosity if any one wants to know....I'm am drinking Florida's brand and Simply Orange brand

Up date:

So 8 days ago I checked in and was still feeling some of the effects of the scleritis, but I'm here to tell you that the vitamin c thing works!! I have no pain, no redness, no strain feeling nothing!! All I did was drink 5-6 swallows of orange juice every 1hr -1 1/2hrs...plus a couple of asprin if I felt pain. That's it! I'm so glad that I put two and two together and did some research and that the pain is gone! It took a couple of days but after a month of hurting and pain, it's such a relief!! The pain went away shortly after starting to drink the oj , and the redness has been gone about 6 days Now! I even got to put some makeup on and go out to dinner!! I hope this info helps some one, cause I would not wish this on any one! Good luck to you and if you want to ask me any questions I am open to answer anything about this ya want to know! Sending everyone good thoughts!

After reading your success story, I decided to include C along with all the other supplements I was using. I started a super dose of C last Tuesday. In about 4 days I saw a great difference in the redness. I'll keep doing it for another month or so to be sure. Thanks for posting your success story!

Hi.

I just found this group today. I will definitely try the vitamin C. I've had scleritis for many years but am having the worst flare up ever. I'm curious - how long is a typical flare up for everyone else? 

Now I'm going to go get some OJ!

Thanks!

I'm going to try that too

I was diagnosed with Scleritis last week.  Dr. Prescribed ibuprofen three times a day along with a Prilosec.   I cannot tolerate the ibuprofen and I know that much is horrible for your kidneys.  I'll try the OJ every hour and lots of Vitamin C.   Wish me luck and I'd appreciate any future tips.

Hi Misty,

I have suffered with episleritis for about 10 years, since I turned 40. My episodes have worsened and lengthened. My current episode has lasted almost 9 months in my right eye. I have had all the blood tests going for underlying health issues and nothing has shown up. I have been managing it with Pred Forte drops and Acular (Acular has not been effective for me at all so I stopped using it). I recently saw a top opthamologist at great expense and even he could not give me any answers as to what causes my eye issue and what to do to stop it happening. I simply have to manage it with Pred Forte, which as other people on here have said, is sickening after a while and I hate using it but without it my eye just goes wild, bright red, watery and the pulling straining pain in my head is terrible.. .All very depressing, undermining my self esteem and generally making me so frustrated every time I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror. So....having read your suggestion about orange juice and vitamin C, I was ready to give it a go. Now don't get me wrong, I was seriously sceptical. This condition gets you down and the lack of answers make you feel hopeless. However, here I am 1 week on and my eye is virtually clear, just the last remnants of a pink shadow that you get when you come to the end of an episode. I am seriously so happy as for me, there is definitely something in your theory with the Vitamin C. So, I started with drinking lots of o.j. then realised the sugar content and thought I may go over to taking high strength vitamin C capsules instead. I read the contraindications of taking a lot of vit C (diarrhea) but have not suffered from this however, I was prepared to go through this to see if my eye improved. I have eaten lots of oranges too. I take 2 x 1000mg vit C capsules a day. I eat 2 oranges a day and drink o.j. mixed with water as often as possible. I started to see an improvement after 3 days. When I saw the eye specialist earlier this year, I asked him if there was an allergy, deficiency etc and he pretty much laughed at me and said there was no link. Well, I am pretty sure the deficiency has been vit C but you have to take a large dose to get this thing started on the road to improvement. Thank you for the great tip. If this continues to work I will post again. I will update my progress because if this is the answer and not just a fluke, it's pretty amazing for everyone out there with this debilitating condition. Fingers crossed here!

Hi- I have been struggling with Posterior Scleritis since June. I have been on prednisone since then but have not experienced a full remission. Now I am on Methotrexate since January. No big improvement so far. The thing I am grateful for is the fact that I have no pain at all and it is only in one eye.

I do have a high sed rate but no other link to RA or lupus.

Anyway, I am very intrigued by the use of vitamin C. I will start on the OJ ASAP. I am wondering if anyone out there has had success with Posterior Scleritis and vitamin C.

I also saw someone in this discussion mention gluten. Is there a connection?

Thank you everyone!