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I have "rogue hairs" as my wife calls them. They grow out of my earlobes and other strange places. Rogue hairs grow fast and get very long. Most of my eyebrows are rogue hairs. Otherwise I don't have much hair on top of my head. I only shave my face every 3-4 days compared to daily when I was younger.
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What is wrong with your eyes? When I hear that someone has red eyes ... my first thought is uveitis.
https://creakyjoints.org/education/what-is-uveitis/
Uveitis is fairly common with various kinds of autoimmune disorders but mostly with inflammatory arthritis and not with PMR. An ophthalmologist should be able to diagnose uveitis. My uveitis mostly occurred in my left eye only. There are many causes and types of uveitis. Autoimmune disorders are just one cause and autoimmune uveitis is just one type.

I have lost count of how many flares of autoimmune uveitis I have had. When it happens my ophthalmologist puts me on 60-100 mg of Prednisone because he says I have an aggressive type of uveitis. My uveitis was painful and caused vision problems so I knew almost instantly when I had a flare of uveitis. My ophthalmologist said I was lucky to feel the symptoms because some people don't feel anything. A red inflamed eye was hard for me to miss but the pain told me to look at my eye.

I had to cover my good eye to know how bad my vision deteriorated in the eye that had uveitis. Usually uveitis only happens in one eye and not both eyes together which seemed strange to me. My ophthalmologist says other types of uveitis that affect both eyes when both eyes have mild but chronic inflammation.

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Goodness it sounds like you've had a time with your eyes, too. I've been to 3 ophthamologists. Surely one of them would have recognized uveitis if I had it. My bloody red eyes started after I began taking Prednisone. Since none of the specialists could find anything wrong with them, I've sorta figured that because the Pred has thinned my skin, it has thinned the membranes of my eyes, too. But that's just a theory in the absence of any other explanation.