Are dry eyes always red and bloodshot?

[rukapuka]

I ordered 2 pair from eyeglasses.com - just transisent lens - grey tint - look fine - don't get tint too dark - no one knows there not prescriptions glasses but me

Excuse me, but what are the tinted glasses? and are they helpful?

[rukapuka]

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.

yes amy I'm just like you.. my problem with the dryness is mental more than physical.. I avoid new communities so much, I'm always stuck to the people I know but when I went to college this year I learnt not to think of the questions of pity that the people who doesn't know me well ask. I tried to change the outside but I could'nt because you deal with different people who either know or doesn't know about DES so you have to accept what is happening and don't think about it...

[Pati]

Thank You

Thanks for the suggestion.
I wil look into that.

[baddabingtim]

Tinted Glasses

I ordered 2 pair from eyeglasses.com - just transisent lens - grey tint - look fine - don't get tint too dark - no one knows there not prescriptions glasses but me

[Pati]

Color for tinted glasses

Hi. My eyes have been red for 2 years now and I am ready to resort to tinted glasses. For those of you with tinted glasses:

What color tint works for you? Where do you get them?

Thank you!

[atta]

I really dont want to wear tinted glasses. Its been more than 5 years and I'm still hoping that the redness will go away someday.
(Its only possible when dryness go away.)

I've read some post wondering about the relation of dryness and redness. Dryness let the eye surface exposed in the air, infection or inflammation is thus caused. And then redness.

[clilyquist]

red eyes

Do you all that have dry eye also have red, bloodshot eyes? A lot of websites that list the side effects of dry eye focus on discomfort and itchiness, and don't mention redness. Just wondering if anyone out there has dry eyes that aren't red.

My eyes are pretty red. I haven't tried steroids yet but I think that may be my next step. All the pollen in the air right now doesn't help either.

PS. I have dry eyes from wearing contact lens.

My eyes are red as well. I finally resorted to wearing lightly tinted glasses on bad days.

[atta]

I'm having redness too

Well, I'm somewhat jealous that some of us don't have that problem..
I can bear the pain and the dryness if the redness disappears.
Why theres no speical lenses or something like that to hide the redness??? I'm thinking it must not be difficult though.

[Silverlady]

Just a warning

Vitamin B6 in overdoses can cause perpheral neuropathy. Neuropathy is a very painful, burning,tingling, electric shock pain in the feet and legs. I would not recommend B6. Most of you get enough of it in your daily diet and your daily multivitamin.

Billye

[Leo]

Vitamin B2 for bloodshot eyes

I just read this in a book called "The Eyes Have It" by Earlyne Chaney. Anyone tried it?

My eyes have red veins in them that hurt all the time. I have MGD and I believe it is because of that. They look squiggley and weird. No matter what I do, I cannot get rid of them.

[Hangus]

I am so glad that this topic was raised because I was beginning to feel like a bit of a faker because my eyes look well and no one has ever said that my eyes look bad. Like Ian P always says, its a different story from the inside!
When I read other peoples stories of being unable to go out because their eyes look so bad I was beginning to think that maybe I was over exaggerating my problem.
As someone said earlier the frustrating thing about this issue is the variety of symptoms from person to person and from day to day.
Barry

[KyleDryEyes]

This dry eye thing is frustrating indeed. My eyes rarely feel irritated, gritty or burning. I mainly only suffer from red eyes. And I would rather suffer with the former rather than the latter. I'll gladly suffer through pain than deal with the constant redness of my eyes (lately...eye). Although I have something to be grateful for..the redness in my right eye is 'relatively' normal (I can live with how my right eye looks.) I can even stay outside for a while and my right eye holds up, but my left eye looks like I just got punched in the eye. ??? I can't explain it and it is so frustrating. I've been using restasis and it seems to be helping with half of my eyes. It's really hard for me socially when dealing with red eyes. Any advice on dealing with the social consequences of DES?

Kyle

[Mika]

hm obviously that very very puzzling for me if most of you don't have bloodshot eye......
coz after all my opth said to me that is natural that u have bloodshot eye because ur eye are dry and being so, make the blood vessel to contract(something like dat) because of friction between the eye (or cornea) and the eyelid.........the eye thus become irritated and lead to redness..
but hmm...
those who don;t have bloodshot eye....mayB they don't have sever dryeye after all, based upon i said above...becuase mayB they have less sever (moderate d.e)....???


and another post from green eye about idiopathetic (watever) d.e u mentioned that u have d.e since 19...wow....and now u still have d.e after all those years...
but.....u also mentioned it has somewat deterioated= become more sever??...but during the phase it was becoming more severe, till now.....did u took supplement like omegas and so on? ...because me too im young and if that happen 2 u till now....that begs the question...and me too ????

[huey]

why is EVERYONE'S dry eye always different from each other, with everyone having their own personal symptoms?? i bet it would be easier to find treatments and cures for dry eye if everyones symptoms were the same. i have had problems w/ constant redness since i was 14 and my dry eye is not nearly as bad as say, diana, and she doesn't have problems w/ redness at all. it seems like dryness and redness would go hand in hand. so frustrating... and like diana said, i bet its hard for people to believe you are in severe pain if your eyes look perfectly clear. ah, dry eye is so complicated.

I have same symptoms as you amy and I got it at the same age as you. I have it for 16 years now. It almost ruined my youth - But I didn't let it!

It's a war against red eyes!, An I'm about to attack!!!

Huey.