Poll (of sorts): Just one-word answers, please!

[browneyesblu]

watering/tearing

[shaker999]

foreign body sensation & sore

[Pam]

pressure, burning

[Max]

Searing.
I also agree with Max. Totally exhausting for 2-3 days after it occurs.

For me there is no period of time when I don't suffer from dry eye. It's not 2 to 3 days after it occurs because its an always thing. And I'm always exhausted. It takes the life out of you.

[rswisley]

Searing.
I also agree with Max. Totally exhausting for 2-3 days after it occurs.

[Max]

Totally exhausting.

[rswisley]

More like: dull knife scraping off your most sensitive skin. (debilitating and cannot be lived with on a regular basis)
Itching or foreign body in eye is the more trivial irritation that happens several hours after. I could live with this trivial irritant.

[Gaye]

Definitely burning!

[Max]

broken-glass

[MissyLaLa]

"Raw"

Except when I get a corneal injury going, then my word is "torture".

[hankm9]

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[kandykane1544]

burning...

[daphane]

pressure feeling as though they are going to pop out

[pat-eye]

Foreign body sensation, very gritty

[jerusalemStone]

menthol sensation inside, photophobia outside