My background is that about 18 months ago I went through a period of extremely dry eyes. It went away after a couple of months. I was using flaxseed oil, eyedrops and viscose eyedrops at night, plus a routine of lidcare (there was some conjunctavitis associated with the dry eyes.)
After the dryness cleared up, I developed double vision in one eye which has remained for the past 18 months. During this time I had another bout of dryness, which was again controlled nicely by drops, flaxseed oil, etc.
Recently I was finally referred to an opthalmologist, who checked my eyes and says I have a damaged cornea, most likely the result of epithelial tearing (dry eyes stuck to the inside of the eyelid.)
He advised that laser surgery is an option, but said first to go on a four month course of Novartis Viscotears and see if that helped fix the problem.
He suggested the Viscotears because of a study which showed that patients awaiting laser surgery who used the product often ended up not requiring surgery after all.
I am not keen to have surgery, as my vision is 20/20 even with the double vision, but I get headaches etc as you would expect, and I work in IT which means I spend a lot of time on the computer.
My question is:
Can anyone refer me to the study my opthalmologist mentioned? I can't find it anywhere on the web, and I'm not sure I want to put drops in my eye four or five times a day for four months if there is nothing to back that up.
(Not that I mind the drops. They are actually quite soothing.)
Dylan.
After the dryness cleared up, I developed double vision in one eye which has remained for the past 18 months. During this time I had another bout of dryness, which was again controlled nicely by drops, flaxseed oil, etc.
Recently I was finally referred to an opthalmologist, who checked my eyes and says I have a damaged cornea, most likely the result of epithelial tearing (dry eyes stuck to the inside of the eyelid.)
He advised that laser surgery is an option, but said first to go on a four month course of Novartis Viscotears and see if that helped fix the problem.
He suggested the Viscotears because of a study which showed that patients awaiting laser surgery who used the product often ended up not requiring surgery after all.
I am not keen to have surgery, as my vision is 20/20 even with the double vision, but I get headaches etc as you would expect, and I work in IT which means I spend a lot of time on the computer.
My question is:
Can anyone refer me to the study my opthalmologist mentioned? I can't find it anywhere on the web, and I'm not sure I want to put drops in my eye four or five times a day for four months if there is nothing to back that up.
(Not that I mind the drops. They are actually quite soothing.)
Dylan.
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