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One year at DEZ
Well that's one year since I've started using this site. I first started looking into my dry eye problem when I returned from a short holiday last year realising that it wasn't going to get better on it's own.
Unfortunately I've not made a lot of progress with the problem although, thankfully, it does not seem much worse than it was in the beginning.
I suppose I've learned loads about dry eye. Jumped from diagnosis to diagnosis. I've thought the cause was beta blockers, low humidity at work, dehydration then aqueous deficiency. Today I think it is "non-marked Posterior Blepharitis" although a professional diagnosis is missing.
Of course there have been times when the irritation was low but I have so many memories of bad experience at work, home and play when the dry eye has gotten me down.
It's disappointing that all the treatments are long term and improvement is alway not apparent.
The thing that worries me is all the anecdotes of people getting so many different opinions on their problem from various doctors.
I'm also concerned about the descriptions of the eyelid I get about Bleph. and MGD. Dr Latkany says "To an eye doctor it should be obvious. Inflamed, red, swollen, scaly, etc.". Mine simply are not that bad. Inflamed swollen and scaly definitely not. I have little red blood vessels visible and maybe a hint of yellowness but these look as if they are normal. What if I don't have posterior blepharitis and all my current treatments are wrong???
It certainly is a damned annoying disease.
Regards,
Fed up Bruce.
Unfortunately I've not made a lot of progress with the problem although, thankfully, it does not seem much worse than it was in the beginning.
I suppose I've learned loads about dry eye. Jumped from diagnosis to diagnosis. I've thought the cause was beta blockers, low humidity at work, dehydration then aqueous deficiency. Today I think it is "non-marked Posterior Blepharitis" although a professional diagnosis is missing.
Of course there have been times when the irritation was low but I have so many memories of bad experience at work, home and play when the dry eye has gotten me down.
It's disappointing that all the treatments are long term and improvement is alway not apparent.
The thing that worries me is all the anecdotes of people getting so many different opinions on their problem from various doctors.
I'm also concerned about the descriptions of the eyelid I get about Bleph. and MGD. Dr Latkany says "To an eye doctor it should be obvious. Inflamed, red, swollen, scaly, etc.". Mine simply are not that bad. Inflamed swollen and scaly definitely not. I have little red blood vessels visible and maybe a hint of yellowness but these look as if they are normal. What if I don't have posterior blepharitis and all my current treatments are wrong???
It certainly is a damned annoying disease.
Regards,
Fed up Bruce.
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