It is hard to answer your question without knowing more about why your eye doctor prescribed the steroids. When someone has SIG, it is treated by decreasing the frequency or the strength of steroid. Nevertheless, sometimes steroids are used to treat intraocular conditions and completely stopping the steroid is impossible, so a balancing act has to occur.
If an eye doctor does need to have someone on steroids who is at risk for SIG, he can also prescribe medication to reduce intraoccular pressure, so I would question why this was not done even if the steroids had to be readminstered.
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Answered on Apr 19th, 2015 at 10:18 AM