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Just wondering if anyone has had shortsightedness after blepharitis / dry eyes? This is what I am now getting and based on the increase over two months, worried that the shortsightedness will be getting worse quickly (particularly as I've only got one good eye).
I had strabismus / squint in my right eye from when I was primary school age, and two operations. So I can only read large writing with my right eye but my left eye has always been perfect. Stopped wearing glasses at about 10 because it would make no improvement to my right eye.
In the past week, my doctor and optician has told me that my blepharitis is getting better and to keep doing what I'm doing (the usual warm compresses, eyelid hygiene, cold compresses). I first saw my optician in week 3 of my problems and she found slight shortsightedness in my left eye (the good one). I had a retest at the optician last week (week 10) and the shortsightedness is slightly worse. I was recommended to get glasses with a slight correction in the left eye for the shortsightedness. I was told I don't need to wear the glasses but they will help improve my confidence with my vision. It's mainly in the past 2-4 weeks that I've noticed that far away text I used to be able to read is now blurry.
Drops / ointments I've used.
Week 1: chloramphenicol. This was given to me at A&E - I went in there initially as I thought I had a foreign object in my eye - fortunately there was no foreign object.
Weeks 3-4: Viscotears - after the first optician visit, they found blepharitis and dry eyes. The optician said use Viscotears as often as needed - now worried I was using it too often, as it was sometimes every half hour.
Weeks 5-8: Viscotears as before, Lacrilube at night - after a quick visit to the optician, they recommended using Lacrilube at night too.
Weeks 9-10: Optive - my GP prescribed this to me. This doesn't relieve my eyes as much as the viscotears did, but my eyes have improved over the past two weeks.
At the moment, my blepharitis is not too bad. In the past 3 days, I've only felt the need to put the Optive drops in once. My lid margins are still enlarged but not as bad as they were. I still get the 'heavy eyes' feeling in both eyes, with some slight soreness around the eyelids. At the moment it is the same throughout the day, so I suspect I just have blepharitis / problem with meibomian glands, and not dry eyes. My eyes don't appear red (can't remember if they did when I first got these problems).
I've always been fine with the lack of vision in my right eye, as long as my left eye is fine. Now that my left eye vision appears to be deteriorating, I'm now getting worried that the treatments I've been doing has been causing the deterioration in vision.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
Just wondering if anyone has had shortsightedness after blepharitis / dry eyes? This is what I am now getting and based on the increase over two months, worried that the shortsightedness will be getting worse quickly (particularly as I've only got one good eye).
I had strabismus / squint in my right eye from when I was primary school age, and two operations. So I can only read large writing with my right eye but my left eye has always been perfect. Stopped wearing glasses at about 10 because it would make no improvement to my right eye.
In the past week, my doctor and optician has told me that my blepharitis is getting better and to keep doing what I'm doing (the usual warm compresses, eyelid hygiene, cold compresses). I first saw my optician in week 3 of my problems and she found slight shortsightedness in my left eye (the good one). I had a retest at the optician last week (week 10) and the shortsightedness is slightly worse. I was recommended to get glasses with a slight correction in the left eye for the shortsightedness. I was told I don't need to wear the glasses but they will help improve my confidence with my vision. It's mainly in the past 2-4 weeks that I've noticed that far away text I used to be able to read is now blurry.
Drops / ointments I've used.
Week 1: chloramphenicol. This was given to me at A&E - I went in there initially as I thought I had a foreign object in my eye - fortunately there was no foreign object.
Weeks 3-4: Viscotears - after the first optician visit, they found blepharitis and dry eyes. The optician said use Viscotears as often as needed - now worried I was using it too often, as it was sometimes every half hour.
Weeks 5-8: Viscotears as before, Lacrilube at night - after a quick visit to the optician, they recommended using Lacrilube at night too.
Weeks 9-10: Optive - my GP prescribed this to me. This doesn't relieve my eyes as much as the viscotears did, but my eyes have improved over the past two weeks.
At the moment, my blepharitis is not too bad. In the past 3 days, I've only felt the need to put the Optive drops in once. My lid margins are still enlarged but not as bad as they were. I still get the 'heavy eyes' feeling in both eyes, with some slight soreness around the eyelids. At the moment it is the same throughout the day, so I suspect I just have blepharitis / problem with meibomian glands, and not dry eyes. My eyes don't appear red (can't remember if they did when I first got these problems).
I've always been fine with the lack of vision in my right eye, as long as my left eye is fine. Now that my left eye vision appears to be deteriorating, I'm now getting worried that the treatments I've been doing has been causing the deterioration in vision.
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Thanks
Dave
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