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Posted 9/29/2013 11:21 PM (GMT -5)
I know most people say we look normal and not sick but, does anyone feel like they look pale all the time? My eyes are almost always red. When i do anything really physical, my eyes look even worse confused
Posted 9/30/2013 2:34 AM (GMT -5)
Yes...

I was attending an event that my husband organized, just for a few hours, for me it is a physical task to just attend. Several people came up to me asking if I was ok, had I been crying? Cause my eyes were so red. The slightest physical effort turn them red and it stings.

I'm starting to look not so great... my tissue is swollen, so I look pale, and I have pouches under my eyes.

I sometimes look grey-yellowish - lol.

Other people will say that I look great, but that's just to avoid certain communication. They don't even ask how I'm doing, they walk up to me and say 'hey! you look great' mad

I think the fatigue and the constant pain are taking their toll.

Posted 9/30/2013 6:14 AM (GMT -5)
MarieLS, thanks for sharing and sorry to hear you are going through same thing i am. I thought maybe it was my imagination but I've noticed I'm aging quite a bit as well. I know it has to be this stinkin illness!!! Couldnt I have got this when I was younger!! Looking older at my age normally is not on my side anyway lol!! As far as people telling you you look great, well usually those are just people that dont know what to say andare uncomfortable if they happen to know whats going on. With those people, for me, I just smile and wave, and say "have a nice day"
Posted 9/30/2013 6:20 AM (GMT -5)
Yes. My eyes look a little red but worse is the puffyness under my eyes. I want to get rid of these puffs in the worst way. It is making me look older and ill. I don;t know how to get rid of it without surgery which I am not doing right now.
Posted 9/30/2013 6:28 AM (GMT -5)
I know what your saying runner. Most of the time my eyes are red also then they water then they sting? Sometimes face is pale. Almost like having allergies.
Posted 9/30/2013 7:02 AM (GMT -5)
I think I look dreadful. Dark circles under my eyes and pale, and my eyes just don't look right. Acquaintances don't seem to notice this, but my parents tell me I look awful. Not in a mean way, in acknowledgement that I'm fighting something really serious. My mother has told me I look "greenish" on more than a few occasions, and that it "breaks her heart when she looks at me and doesn't see the beautiful me looking back". For the record, I am 40 years old. Lol.

Every now and then when I have a good day, my husband comments that I look good. So there must be something to our outsides matching our insides. :)
Posted 9/30/2013 7:43 AM (GMT -5)
I looked like I was going to die when I first got sick. I am looking and feeling more myself since I got the right medication. I try to still make myself dress and clean up to feel somewhat normal. And then there are those days when I just want to stay in my robe bc Im too sick.
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