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Hello all,
someone of you know me already..I've been a member here for a couple of years already and I wanted to share my experience since I believe it has change dramatically....sorry if its quite long.
I'm 24, started noticing when I was about 14 that my eyes were always red, burning and were dry (not severely). I started visiting Eye Doctors; for the first years in Milan where I lived..I visited about 10-15 dr.s and basically nobody could help.
After some years, tired of having chronic redness and so much burning that DEEPLY affected my social life I started to visit some "Top" Eye Doctors. I visited Dr.s in London and then even here in the U.S. since my father lives here and he helped me. I went to New York, Houston etc...you all know the names of these Dry Eye specialists.....you can imagine a young guy with sunglasses on all these airplanes around the world...looking for some help..
Still, they were giving me drops or masks, but the problem was there and the inflammation and burning was become so severe that I was desperate.....This until some months ago....(we are talking about 9-10 years of eye problems already)......
I visited this last Dr. in Miami....it was really the last one because my parents were spending so much money and nothing was changing....My depression was also very very bad because I wasnt able to live my life like everyone else...
Now, first thing he said when he saw me was this: "Your lower lids are too low.....your eye is too exposed..." ........well, I went back a couple of times and then decided to have a surgery on my lids.....very invasive (I had the surgery with an Oculoplastic). I wasnt sure if that could help but I was so desperate that went for it.....you can see this picture to have an idea...They are NOT my eyes but look 100% the same...
http://www.drputterman.com/images/pr...on.large.1.jpg
the name of the surgery is "Canthoplasty with spacer (that can be of different materials)"......basically they have to move/cut the latheral canthal of the eyes (on the bone near the corners) and put some collagen in the lower lids......this can move them up......
It took 2 weeks to heal and 20 stitches (my face near the eyes will probably still hurt for some months).....the miracle was that after 1 week of the surgery the burning was COMPLETELY gone and even the redness and dryness is less........I just use 1 artificial drop a day and hope to stop using them soon...my eyes are still a bit red but I can understand that...they have been exposed for so many years....the burning until the surgery was so bad that I was thinking about killing myself.....
Well, sorry if it was long but I dont know...just wanted to tell you that I'm doing fine now......it is still difficult because I feel like I'm "out of jail"....meaning that I became quite a lonely guy and now I feel that slowly I can do more especially socially....
Good luck for everything,
Francesco
someone of you know me already..I've been a member here for a couple of years already and I wanted to share my experience since I believe it has change dramatically....sorry if its quite long.
I'm 24, started noticing when I was about 14 that my eyes were always red, burning and were dry (not severely). I started visiting Eye Doctors; for the first years in Milan where I lived..I visited about 10-15 dr.s and basically nobody could help.
After some years, tired of having chronic redness and so much burning that DEEPLY affected my social life I started to visit some "Top" Eye Doctors. I visited Dr.s in London and then even here in the U.S. since my father lives here and he helped me. I went to New York, Houston etc...you all know the names of these Dry Eye specialists.....you can imagine a young guy with sunglasses on all these airplanes around the world...looking for some help..
Still, they were giving me drops or masks, but the problem was there and the inflammation and burning was become so severe that I was desperate.....This until some months ago....(we are talking about 9-10 years of eye problems already)......
I visited this last Dr. in Miami....it was really the last one because my parents were spending so much money and nothing was changing....My depression was also very very bad because I wasnt able to live my life like everyone else...
Now, first thing he said when he saw me was this: "Your lower lids are too low.....your eye is too exposed..." ........well, I went back a couple of times and then decided to have a surgery on my lids.....very invasive (I had the surgery with an Oculoplastic). I wasnt sure if that could help but I was so desperate that went for it.....you can see this picture to have an idea...They are NOT my eyes but look 100% the same...
http://www.drputterman.com/images/pr...on.large.1.jpg
the name of the surgery is "Canthoplasty with spacer (that can be of different materials)"......basically they have to move/cut the latheral canthal of the eyes (on the bone near the corners) and put some collagen in the lower lids......this can move them up......
It took 2 weeks to heal and 20 stitches (my face near the eyes will probably still hurt for some months).....the miracle was that after 1 week of the surgery the burning was COMPLETELY gone and even the redness and dryness is less........I just use 1 artificial drop a day and hope to stop using them soon...my eyes are still a bit red but I can understand that...they have been exposed for so many years....the burning until the surgery was so bad that I was thinking about killing myself.....
Well, sorry if it was long but I dont know...just wanted to tell you that I'm doing fine now......it is still difficult because I feel like I'm "out of jail"....meaning that I became quite a lonely guy and now I feel that slowly I can do more especially socially....
Good luck for everything,
Francesco
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