Hi, I have constant burning and dryness. Had my eyes checked and got glasses, but for some reason, I still can't see well. Maybe the Lyrica on take.

I deal with dry eyes too... maybe bc of my contacts. I don't take any medications so I'm not sure what is causing it. ='(

I see an eye specialist and he says most eye problems are not the eye but other illness in the body.

I don't get enough sleep and don't get the sleep that the body needs to make repairs that's part of my eye problems. Heart meds is another, High blood sugars, high blood pressure.

I keep several pairs of glasses around with different strengths.

When I was about 5 years old, my eyes went from 20/20 to about -5, -6. I had to wear hard contact lenses to slow down the progression. I'm 22 now and my eyes are -10 in each eye and honestly having terrible eye sight has just become a part of me - I have the thick glasses, I wear my (now soft) contact lenses whenever I feel like (usually special occasions.) I can't really see at all without glasses, but it's been like this for years so I'm used to it.

hard lenses were really painful and I had to wear them for a few years. I'm glad that I did though when I was a kid. Anyways what I am wondering is, if something similar could be happening to you, just at a different age? also, if you're taking a lot of muscle relaxers, there is debate over some things like flexeril can cause muscle weakness including your eyes.

or it could be an age thing. you may want to look into taking omega 3s, they are good for your eyes, brain and heart and just generally a good thing to take.

I have HORRIBLE eye sight. I have extremely sensitive eyes and dry eye. I do wear contacts but I am wearing glasses more and more often. My eyes are a -12 and a -13. They have to make my contacts special. My eyes are continuing to get worse. they told me laser eye surgery was not for me, my eyes are too bad, it would not work. I dont know when they are going to stop getting worse but i mean I guess I can wear glasses/contacts at least. It is bothersome at times. Especially the dry eye. I also have eye pressure problems but that was associated with a medication. I have no idea if it is associated with fibro considering I have had this when I was in first grade and prob younger I just did not know any better
alena
alena

Dear Jessica,

You are exactly the age when I experienced the same issue with my eyes. I have read more than once that this happens to fibromyalgics. It certainly did in my case. At one point I was having to have a new prescription written for eyeglasses every 6 months. My eye doctor was concerned, but couldn't find a cause. I had a tiny little bit of fibro at the time and wasn't really even aware of it. 15 years later I was diagnosed with an awful case of the disease after having a severe attack of Epstein-Barr Virus. That is what put me on Social Security Disability and in a wheelchair for two years. My health has continued to fail in many ways over the years, but the eyesight thing was one of the first symptoms I experienced. I have no answer for you, only to say that I have read about this as well as experienced this myself.

I wish you well.

Mizroze

Hey guys. Thanks for the input from all of you. It's so frustrating. =\ Especially with the eyesight - considering you HAVE to have it! I have been doing a little research online and did find at www.fibromyalgia-symptoms.org that eyesight is linked with it. Bummer. But at least I know the cause and that it's not in my head. I'm about -3 in each of my eyes (or was)...

I'm about to start a change of my diet to hopefully help. I'm going to start juicing (carrots mainly to help my eyesight - hopefully), cutting out all cokes and artificially sweetened drinks, cut back on processed carbs and stop eating as many red meats.... I'm hoping this will eventually help.

You're all in my prayers.

You should probaby get tested for sjogrens even though you can get dry eyes from fibromyalgia also. Sjogrens also causes a lot of muscle pain etc. hugs marilyn

I have the same problem. I never thought it had any connection to the fibro except as a side effect to the drugs.

I have eye problems too. At first it was thought to be from the Lyrica. I have been off it for a year. Still have problems. I was seeing double even. Therre was a 4 month period where my eye dr had me coming to get them checked every week or two. My eyes were changing so much that it had to stabilize before sending them off to be made. During this time I had very dry eyes. Plugs in my tear ducts helped the dry eyes. I did find out that I have cataracts in both eyes. My drs don't know if all this is from dry eyes, fibromyalgia, cataracts, or meds? All I know is that I still have problems with my eyes.

Welcome to our little corner of the world. Have had fibro since 1991 and worn glasses for the last 10 years. But last month at my eye appt. my doc said my eyes were getting stronger. What?? I must be close to death or the real benjamin button. And once again, welcome, been hanging around here for a few years and have been helped by this site more than I can count.

My vision went downhill since I started Valium, don't know what to do about it.

My eyesight has got progressively worse. I started to wear glasses about 8 years ago??? I always prided myself on having great eyesight. Not so! lol My hubby got new glasses and said "ut oh" I said "what" he said "check this out" and handed me his glasses. The tv guide on the tv was CLEAR as a bell when for years I thought it was the station making it blurry! :)

Fast forward, my eyes have been hurting all day... My GLASSES have penny sized scratches in the middle so I'm constantly "looking over" the scratch marks! I tell ya! It only took me about 4 months to figure THAT one out!

I have the same problem with dry, burning eyes. Can't be on the computer more than 30 minutes. Worse when tired. Very diificult to watch a movie in theater, or drive at night. Also suffer from partial salivary gland blockages, wonder if they are connected?

I haven't noticed vision changes, but I have been having twitching in my right eye that concerns me. It started because of the Topomax I take for my migraines. When I told my doc about it we lowered the dosage and the twitching stopped. Now the twitching has started again and I'm wondering if it's because I've started taking Lyrica again recently. It started out slowly, just off and on and now it's intense and nonstop. Whatever it is it needs to stop! It's driving me nuts!! It's hard to focus on anything at all. It's hard to put on makeup, it's hard to look at the computer screen, watching tv is difficult and driving is out of the question.

Has anyone else had anything similar?