Originally posted by hannidan
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These days, like you said most of the Eye doctors in my area who has some knowledge of the dry eye mess ignore and under-treat me - this is the condition at Duke and the other significant University clinic in my area. I am kind of on my own these days. I tried taking 2nd opinions from Wilmer Eye center which turned out to be a tad bit better.
My experience is that medicine doctors usually have myopic viewpoint and recommend short-term, not well proven treatments; And every treatment carries risk and many a times it is difficult to estimate the damage it can do. But at the least doctors should do justice to what they already know. Desperate patients make a choice with their limited self-research and at times get to suffer from the complications of it (sometime it can last a lifetime!). So, take their advice with a grain of salt, cross-verify with other doctors on it, run your self-search and play more conservative.
Best and safest piece of eye advice I got are - (a) Boston Scleral Lenses and (b) Nighttime eye protection methods (c) warm/cold compress & lid hygiene, which made me get a handle on my challenging eye condition and improve it.
Worst treatments for me were - (a) Lipiflow (b) Long term daily use of Oral Antibiotics for Sinus/Eye/Skin which messed up my GI (c) IPL (d) Eyelash electrolysis (e) Eye lid surgery(Tarrsoraphy/Eyelid weight) (did not undergo it in spite of severe pressure from docs; and now they say it wouldn't have helped!)
Not saying that these lists will look same for others.
In my case, I have been diagnosed with Sjogren's thru lip biopsy which was found after my own aggressive pursuit with several specialties. Am trying to focus these days on healing the whole body naturally and left my eye management to the things above that worked for me so far.
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