Are dry eyes always red and bloodshot?

[Lucy]

2) Go vegetarian ... and see if it helps

It won't.
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My eyes are not red even though I know there is a fire going on.

[SusieD]

I hear you.

My eyes always look worse in stores with strip lighting and the lighting in most bathrooms are the same too.

[southhavenjen]

Its hard to tell if my eyes are red or not, as strange as that may sound. Inside my own home with natural light or incandescent lighting my eyes do not appear bloodshot and actually look somewhat healthy. However if I were to walk into a grocery store or sporting goods store with flourescent lighting and look in a mirror my eyes appear extremely bloodshot and I look like I have some serious issues. I always think the cashiers are looking at me saying "whats wrong with this guy".

So I dont know...I would like to believe the natural and incandescent lighting, but I get such mixed mixed reviews from flourescent lighting...Not sure what mirrors to believe...

MrC

Mr_Cabot, I have the same problem. Eyes look pretty good in natural light or incandescents but get me under fluorescent lighting and it's bloodshot city! I wonder why that is the case?

We also have a light in the bathroom at work - the light coming off it has a pink cast. My eyes look AWFUL under that light.

[Mr_Cabot]

Red? Depends on the Mirror

Its hard to tell if my eyes are red or not, as strange as that may sound. Inside my own home with natural light or incandescent lighting my eyes do not appear bloodshot and actually look somewhat healthy. However if I were to walk into a grocery store or sporting goods store with flourescent lighting and look in a mirror my eyes appear extremely bloodshot and I look like I have some serious issues. I always think the cashiers are looking at me saying "whats wrong with this guy".

So I dont know...I would like to believe the natural and incandescent lighting, but I get such mixed mixed reviews from flourescent lighting...Not sure what mirrors to believe...

MrC

[Amy09]

wow i wish i was you.

[Paulie]

I never have red eyes. They are dry though and burns sometimes but the sclera is white as snow.

[kaypeeoh]

Flick-

1) Are you a contact lens wearer? That can be one of the primary causes of the redness

http://dro.hs.columbia.edu/cornealnv.htm

2) Go vegetarian ... and see if it helps

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_DocSum

The abstract is 9 years old. In rabbits there was inprovement when they injected genistein subconjunctivally. So if you can't give up meat, maybe the doctor could inject genistein into your eyes.

[Eyeproblems]

Yes typically I notice my eyes are worse around the computer thats the biggest problem, it kills my eyes, for some reason the past few days my eyes have not been bothering me as much or not as red, I dont know why, except that my eye doctor put me back on my glaucoma pills which are fine except they make me fall asleep.

Wood fires also hurt my eyes alot, and when I am nervious it can also happen, but I have to be very nervious, I never did understand that one.

Be careful of steroids, thats how this 21 year old ended up with glaucoma from over use of it in my bad eye.

[Amy09]

i too have problems with redness. and annoyingly, its always worse when i am stressed or nervous, like going out to do something w/ new people. god i hate that. my left eye is definately more red and swollen, which makes sense since it is my bad eye, but basically both my eyes have problems. also, when i wear contacts the redness is worse.

like some other people have said, steroid drops helped me a lot, but they only cleared up my eyes for a fews hours after putting them in, and eventually i had to quit taking the drops.

its frustrating. i wish, if there won't ever be a cure for dry eye in my lifetime, that somehow more people could be educated about dry eye and the symptoms (like redness) you can get from it, so people would understand why my eyes are always red. although i feel like i'm finally learning to live with it, it's still very embaressing at times.

[neil0502]

Neil - do you have problems with redness?

I used to ... in both eyes ... pretty noticeably. In the last five or so years, though -- and I have no idea why -- it's been much less dramatic. Just occasionally, and primarily only in my right eye.

[Flick]

Thanks for the links. I wish I could go vegetarian but I like meat too much.

I wore contacts for many years, but stopped last fall.

Neil - do you have problems with redness?

[neil0502]

Flick-

1) Are you a contact lens wearer? That can be one of the primary causes of the redness

http://dro.hs.columbia.edu/cornealnv.htm

2) Go vegetarian ... and see if it helps

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...=pubmed_DocSum

[kitty]

It might not be the steroids, but the preservative in the steroid drops that is irritating?

[SusieD]

Im always confused when I hear how steroids clear up peoples redness - steroids always make my redness worse - it just doesnt add up at all.

[sazy123]

my eyes are not red, the inside of my eye lids (pull them down) are red/imflammed most of the time. But no your dont have to be red..