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After having Lasik on one eye in April it is now safe to say that I am doing so much better.
I started noticing an improvement December 4th. I know the date because it was the day after I spent a day crying on the couch because the pain was so intense, despite everything I was doing. The whole dry eye thing felt like I was being drowned, i would be allowed up for a few days to catch my breath before being dragged down again into terrible pain. But since that day I have only had three days of that raw burning feeling.
My eye is fine half of the time, and the rest of the time it is irritated, and not painful. It feels like there is a thin hair in it, and not the cockroach dug into in my eyeball, I am so glad he has moved on! I also get a tickling sensation in that triangle of flesh that is on the eyeball, close to my nose, I don't know what it is called. Sometimes it feels dry and gritty, which is a huge step down from the constant burning and rawness from before.
I don't get that horrible burning feeling anymre, no rawness, no heavy dead weight, no eyeaches. Before I would have said I was between a 8-10 in terms of pain/agony, but now I really don't ever get more than a 5, and that would be on a really usual bad day, which are few and far between. Of course by posting this I will be sore tomorrow
But the great thing is that if I have a bad day I know the next day is a new day and I start off with a good eye, and not the pain from the day before. My Dr. was delighted with my improvement when I saw him in January. He said he couldn't be sure what had caused my improvement, but to keep at it, because it's working. my TBUT was 10 seconds, wih very little inflammation, no dry spots, and a result of 8 on that form that measures my symptoms.
I was on Doxy for months and Azacite for 2/3 months. I am no longer taking those. In fact to be honest the only thing that I use in my eye in Dwelle once a day, sometimes more if I remember, Genteal gel and my moisture chambers. I should be doing my warm compresse and scrubs but the fact is I'm lazy and usually only do them once or twice a week, though I would like to do them once a day.
The two things that I would note about my improvement.
I stopped using Azacite at the start of December, and started to notice an improvement after this. When I first started using Azacite is seemed to numb the eye for about 10 minutes which was great for the pain, but after about 2 weeks I didn't notice any difference. I continued taking it, but I'm iffy about it benefits, for me at least. I would recommend giving it a shot, but I wonder if it works for some and just doesn't for others.
The second thing was the change in my diet. I started trying to eat a lot of raw vegetarian food in Septemer and this has got to the stage where I am now very aware of the nutritional and healing benefit of diferent types of foods. I also bought a juicer and drink 16onz of green veggie juice per day. Once again I don't know if this has helped but all I know is that I'm not going to risk it by going back to my pre-improvement diet, when something, even if I don't know what it is, is working, why change it. I also do meditation and resorative yoga, which really is a yoga for unwinding and relaxing.
I will need to update the information on my profile to reflect my improvement, but I will leave it for the moment.
I am so grateful to be able to post in my section, and so grateful that I will not have to deal with a day of depression when my one year anniversary arrives, instead I can go out and celebrate with a salad!!
I am also very grateful for all the help I got from this site. It motivated me to find a great Dr. (Dr. Michael Gagnon in the San Francisco area) and provided tips and support from those with more experince than me.
Bernadette
I started noticing an improvement December 4th. I know the date because it was the day after I spent a day crying on the couch because the pain was so intense, despite everything I was doing. The whole dry eye thing felt like I was being drowned, i would be allowed up for a few days to catch my breath before being dragged down again into terrible pain. But since that day I have only had three days of that raw burning feeling.
My eye is fine half of the time, and the rest of the time it is irritated, and not painful. It feels like there is a thin hair in it, and not the cockroach dug into in my eyeball, I am so glad he has moved on! I also get a tickling sensation in that triangle of flesh that is on the eyeball, close to my nose, I don't know what it is called. Sometimes it feels dry and gritty, which is a huge step down from the constant burning and rawness from before.
I don't get that horrible burning feeling anymre, no rawness, no heavy dead weight, no eyeaches. Before I would have said I was between a 8-10 in terms of pain/agony, but now I really don't ever get more than a 5, and that would be on a really usual bad day, which are few and far between. Of course by posting this I will be sore tomorrow
But the great thing is that if I have a bad day I know the next day is a new day and I start off with a good eye, and not the pain from the day before. My Dr. was delighted with my improvement when I saw him in January. He said he couldn't be sure what had caused my improvement, but to keep at it, because it's working. my TBUT was 10 seconds, wih very little inflammation, no dry spots, and a result of 8 on that form that measures my symptoms.I was on Doxy for months and Azacite for 2/3 months. I am no longer taking those. In fact to be honest the only thing that I use in my eye in Dwelle once a day, sometimes more if I remember, Genteal gel and my moisture chambers. I should be doing my warm compresse and scrubs but the fact is I'm lazy and usually only do them once or twice a week, though I would like to do them once a day.
The two things that I would note about my improvement.
I stopped using Azacite at the start of December, and started to notice an improvement after this. When I first started using Azacite is seemed to numb the eye for about 10 minutes which was great for the pain, but after about 2 weeks I didn't notice any difference. I continued taking it, but I'm iffy about it benefits, for me at least. I would recommend giving it a shot, but I wonder if it works for some and just doesn't for others.
The second thing was the change in my diet. I started trying to eat a lot of raw vegetarian food in Septemer and this has got to the stage where I am now very aware of the nutritional and healing benefit of diferent types of foods. I also bought a juicer and drink 16onz of green veggie juice per day. Once again I don't know if this has helped but all I know is that I'm not going to risk it by going back to my pre-improvement diet, when something, even if I don't know what it is, is working, why change it. I also do meditation and resorative yoga, which really is a yoga for unwinding and relaxing.
I will need to update the information on my profile to reflect my improvement, but I will leave it for the moment.
I am so grateful to be able to post in my section, and so grateful that I will not have to deal with a day of depression when my one year anniversary arrives, instead I can go out and celebrate with a salad!!
I am also very grateful for all the help I got from this site. It motivated me to find a great Dr. (Dr. Michael Gagnon in the San Francisco area) and provided tips and support from those with more experince than me.
Bernadette
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