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I had four plugs in for almost a year but had bad overflow because of this. However, I did get to see what made me tear more and less. Naturally, because dry eye syndrome is different for everyone, this may or may not pertain to you but I thought I'd share what I had learned anyway.
The following are the things that tended to make my eyes tear more:
1. Washing your lids. I think that this is most important. My eyes stopped the tears streaming down my face to some extend by creating a kind of crust around the eye and below it which reduced my tears. It also made my eyes stick together when I woke up in the morning. A doc recently told me that it was also putting me at risk of a bacterial infection in my eye.
2. Cold wind - I noticed that when my eyes were cold, there were way more tears. That got me thinking that maybe dry eye has a lot to do with the temperature in your eye and the people that have it may lack some enzyme that helps control this temperature well. If your eye is too hot all the time, then the tears will evaporate.
3. Pain - Despite the dry eye problem being solved, I continued to have eye pain, albeit to a much less degree. The reason. I think, is that I've had the wrong prescription for my glasses for years. I recently went to another doc and she told me that one of my eyes was far sighted and the other slightly near sighted so they were working against each other. I now have distance glasses and reading glasses with different degrees of strength for each eye. Previous, docs would just give me the same. So far, I think this is working really well for me but I will have to wait and see.
Anyway, the point is that one problem I believe was feeding off the other problem. When you are in pain, it increases the temperature in your eyes and therefore exacerbates the dry eyes. Just my two cents.
4. If you close your eyes and trace a circle, stretching the eyes seems to create more tears (but I'm not sure about this one)
5. Sitting in front of a computer for long periods of the day makes your eyes very dry (no surprise there)
The following are the things that tended to make my eyes tear more:
1. Washing your lids. I think that this is most important. My eyes stopped the tears streaming down my face to some extend by creating a kind of crust around the eye and below it which reduced my tears. It also made my eyes stick together when I woke up in the morning. A doc recently told me that it was also putting me at risk of a bacterial infection in my eye.
2. Cold wind - I noticed that when my eyes were cold, there were way more tears. That got me thinking that maybe dry eye has a lot to do with the temperature in your eye and the people that have it may lack some enzyme that helps control this temperature well. If your eye is too hot all the time, then the tears will evaporate.
3. Pain - Despite the dry eye problem being solved, I continued to have eye pain, albeit to a much less degree. The reason. I think, is that I've had the wrong prescription for my glasses for years. I recently went to another doc and she told me that one of my eyes was far sighted and the other slightly near sighted so they were working against each other. I now have distance glasses and reading glasses with different degrees of strength for each eye. Previous, docs would just give me the same. So far, I think this is working really well for me but I will have to wait and see.
Anyway, the point is that one problem I believe was feeding off the other problem. When you are in pain, it increases the temperature in your eyes and therefore exacerbates the dry eyes. Just my two cents.
4. If you close your eyes and trace a circle, stretching the eyes seems to create more tears (but I'm not sure about this one)
5. Sitting in front of a computer for long periods of the day makes your eyes very dry (no surprise there)
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