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i do the daily warm compresses and put a wet papertowell around the rice baggy.. however, my eyelids andunder my eyes are so ext dry (i have sjogrens too).. should i lay off the heat?? i know its drying me out.. help!!! eyecream doesnt do a thing.. any advice???
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I put vasiline on skin when I had this and it worked. -
ok thanks.. maybe at night esp??? did your skin get more moist? did u still do the compresses? thanks!JennyComment
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I take a sock and put rice in it and heat until warm. I don't do the paper towel. i think that dries your skin out more. I think I did stop the compresses for a day or two and kept the vasiline on my skin. If you have roseacia, check to make sure putting that on your skin is ok.Comment
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Not sure if this will help but here is what I do:
- Hot compresses never worked well for me because I could never get the bag or towel or clothe to the right temperature for any more than 1 or 2 minutes.
- Furthermore, I would often burn the skin under and around my eyes, and I'd give myself terrible wrinkles even though I'm still a pretty young guy.
- So instead what I do is I stand under a hot shower spray for anywhere from 3-10 minutes (10 minutes is a really long time and I don't usually do it for this long) and let the constant heat of the shower spray warm up my eyelids.
- Then I get out the shower and excrete my meibomian glands with a Q-Tip. I can literally see the oil come out.
As a bonus, while I'm 25 now and have a wrinkle or two under my eyes, so does everyone else my age, so my skin around my eyes doesn't look any different from my friends' skin. In other words, I healed from the previous damage I did to myself when I overdid the heat of the hot compresses.
One last thing: I've never tried them, but people seem to be talking about blephasteam goggles. They're expensive and only sold in Europe as far as I know, but I may consider them some day if none of the next things on my list of things to try work out.Comment
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