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  • Success with Cyclosporin A?

    Still suffering 4+ months after lasik and looking for help. I feel like dry eye is still part of the problem but that the fact that they mest my optics up is also a major issue.

    Not to sure if I'm still healing or if I'm simply going to be stuck like this. Has anybody had any success with Cyclosporin A? I've heard that it can speed healing of the corneal nerves and eleviate problems with dry eye.

    Since lasik I've had a consistent feeling of warmth around my eyes and forehead, almost like the feeling of having blood rushing to your head if you were turned upside down. My eyes constatly feel like they are cross-eyed - like the feeling you would get if you were tryiny to look at something up close to your nose - yet the eyes always appear to be dead on centred.

    The other problem I get is slight dizzyness when I'm out trying to get basic little things done, like grocery shopping or trying to make a pick at the movie store.

    When I sleep I can't sleep on my right side as the eye feels very painful, like there is a pressure building up, also get these feel when i bend over - the pressure build up in the right eye feeling - almost like the severe eye pain you might experience if you a very bad sinus/head cold.

    Still using eye drops. up to but not always maybe 10 times a day.

    Additionally: thought I should ad that I've been grinding my teeth quite a bit as of late, I think its related to whatever is going on with my eye, the whole face neck, jaw and shoulders area as been very tense as of late.

    Anybody have any comments?

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    Aaron,

    Well, suffering with the symptoms you describe could certainly cause one to grind or clench their teeth and tense their muscles!

    I have been using Restasis (I believe that is cyclosporine-A) for nearly two years, and it has really helped me. Before I started it, after my surgery, I had virtually no tears at all. I was physically incapable of crying. A couple months after using it daily, I could cry again. I hope to be able to go off of it at some point, but for now I'm just glad to be one of the people it helps.

    The other drop that has been a lifesaver is autologous serum. I really believe that it helped my eyes heal and that it is providing something essential that my tear glands evidently cannot provide. Is there any way you could try these drops?

    You are still very early out from the Lasik -- there is still a lot of healing for your eyes to do!
    Teri

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      The area that really is the most uncomfortable is the area around the upper eyelid, the tissue underneath the eyebrows feels to some degree as if it is almost swollen - I think this is just more of a sensation though.

      Restasis, Azasite, and Serum drops may be difficult for me to get here in Canada. I like to try them all out, if only I could find a provider up here I surely would.

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