Mg home expression tools.

The strange thing is if my TBUT doubled I should be feeling a lot better but I feel marginally better. I wonder if the test was done wrong.

patientpatrick, the answer is you haven't yet tackled other issues that are causing symptoms. You have to address all of the co-morbidities. Expressing may help with oil secretion but there can still be many other things going on i.e. co-morbidities. The co-morbidities are diverse, but they cause similar symptoms so it is hard to tease out on your own what to do. For example, you might have mites, bacteria, conjunctivochalasis, blocked glands, aqeous tear deficiency, and on and on. But any of these would be difficult to self-diagnose because we can't look at our own eyes via slit lamp.

[patientpatrick]

I went for a check up last Friday. The doc did a TBUT test and was surprised to find that went from a 5 sec time to close to 11 sec. When asked if I have done anything different I said I've been doing at home expresion every other day or so. So I'm guessing its been helping. The strange thing is if my TBUT doubled I should be feeling a lot better but I feel marginally better. I wonder if the test was done wrong.

[patientpatrick]

Btw Kate are you still in contact with dr latkany? Seems weird why he would tell ou to stop the expression if its helping you. There was a guy on the forum "wantism" who got a mastrota paddle and did them himself at home. He said he feel better from doing it.

[patientpatrick]

I must admit, I'm feeling somewhat better after more expression of my MGs, but so far it's minimal and I've only been doing it every other day for now. The first time I did it my lids hurt, I think I was squeezing too hard but when I did it softly and with more frequency it stopped hurting. I'm just not sure how thorough expression is because I know when I used my fingers and a cotton swab nothing came out. I used the tweezers and all of a sudden I saw gunk expressed. That's why I was wondering if there's perhaps a more effective home tool that would work yet still be gentle, hence the rollers.

If anyone out there has experience please let me know.

[Katewest]

I've been expressing my lids for about 5 months now and there is def more oil coming out. Time does help I think. Then again, I dont know if its helping my symptoms all that much. I started serum last week but I think its only 25% so I may need to talk with my doc about that. Sounds like 100% really helps more. I also bought some Gunnar comp glasses and they just arrived yesterday. Too early to tell though. Back to the tools, I would agree with DCR about not doing any further damage and being very careful. When I saw Dr. Latkany a couple months ago he told me to stop expressing but was vague about why. There has been some talk about damaging the eye with massages and expressing. But I think he was referring to me "obsessing" too much. Which is annoying b/c its hard not to when they hurt so much.

[patientpatrick]

One of the nurses at a clinic ordered it for me. Yes they are the curved kind. Plastic frame with silicone covered tips. Showed me how to use it and everything. I works ok....... It seems like expression with fingers and cotton swabs aren't aggressive enough at expressing oil in my case.

[DCRdryeye]

What silicone tweezers did you order patrick? do you have a link? Are they the curved looking tweezers http://www.guldenophthalmics.com.pre...essor-kit.html please be careful not to damage your eyelids.

[patientpatrick]

I've been looking for tools to do MG expression at home. I ordered a pair of those silicone tweezers and so far i've noticed a lot more gunk coming out than if i were to use my fingers or a cotton swab.

I saw the following and was wondering if anyone has had any success with anything of the sorts.

The rollers seem especially interesting.

http://www.guldenophthalmics.com.pre...plate-s-s.html
http://www.guldenophthalmics.com.pre...essor-kit.html
http://www.inami.co.jp/english/surgi...vations/m2071/