my eyes hurt!

[A66eyroad]

Have you considered having your tear ducts (the tubes that lead from your eye to your sinus) closed, either termporarily with plugs or permanently with cautery? There have been some good threads about cautery on this forum.

[Crymeariver]

Rituxan is a b-cell depleter and works best when given before the regular CHOP or other chemo regimens.  It doesn't work as well for the eye to root it all out.   Maybe another round would have helped decrease the mass but the Lymphoma Center wants to radiate it.  Radiation works 100% but the eye doc thinks with pre-existing severe dry eye that the long-term effects would be significant. 

I first noticed a discrete little bump in the eye crease in Feb '10.  No pain at the site but I had a chronic foreign object in eye feeling.  I wouldn't have even noticed but I was trying facial yoga in front of a mirror.  Hehe   Not that you don't quickly notice that something is going wrong because of blurry and double vision, swelling and light sensitivity.

Do you have an eye center nearby?  I am seen at a regional university hospital eye center and get the best care.   After my experience I can't stress getting proper eye care enough.  Catch problems early!  Our sight is too valuable.