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I'm relatively new to the world of dry eyes, as over the past 8 months, I have been walking through recurrent corneal erosion in one eye. I woke up one night with blinding pain, and blurry vision in one eye. My GP sent me to an Ophthalmologist who diagnosed me with RCE, stating that my eye was injured and the fix for it was to perform a Stromal puncture procedure, to heal the eye properly. I didn't like the idea of that, but after a few weeks of revisiting new tears to the epithelial layer of my cornea, I went through with the procedure. Once I healed up, things were better for about 6 weeks, and than the rending returned to my eye. I set out to find a corneal specialist, who confirmed RCE, and recommended performing PK to burn off the whole cornea this time, and allow it to grow back.
At this point, I'm a little risk-adverse. I feel like both procedures seek to treat the symptoms of the issue, and not the cause of the RCE. I am afraid I'll go through with an incredibly painful experience, again, and after a few months be back to where I am now. So I've found this board, and been lurking and buying the products suggested here.
My daily routine has been consisting of thera tears as needed, and muro 128 at night, and occasionally during the day, if I need a heavy lubricant. I've been wearing wrap around sunglasses at work to avoid air movement, but I've been increasingly tired of coworkers comments. If I have a particularly bad day, I wear an eye patch. (When I come home from work, I often wear the patch just to rest my eye at night.)
I have picked up a pair of the Tranquileyes goggles and been using them at night for a week, and also placed a humidifier in my bedroom and increased the humidity to 65%. I have also been taking about 2000mg of flax seed oil a day, and consuming about 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon of water before bed each night. My eye feels weak, but I am hoping that this aggressive hydration route will lead to healing after a few months.
I'm relatively new to the world of dry eyes, as over the past 8 months, I have been walking through recurrent corneal erosion in one eye. I woke up one night with blinding pain, and blurry vision in one eye. My GP sent me to an Ophthalmologist who diagnosed me with RCE, stating that my eye was injured and the fix for it was to perform a Stromal puncture procedure, to heal the eye properly. I didn't like the idea of that, but after a few weeks of revisiting new tears to the epithelial layer of my cornea, I went through with the procedure. Once I healed up, things were better for about 6 weeks, and than the rending returned to my eye. I set out to find a corneal specialist, who confirmed RCE, and recommended performing PK to burn off the whole cornea this time, and allow it to grow back.
At this point, I'm a little risk-adverse. I feel like both procedures seek to treat the symptoms of the issue, and not the cause of the RCE. I am afraid I'll go through with an incredibly painful experience, again, and after a few months be back to where I am now. So I've found this board, and been lurking and buying the products suggested here.
My daily routine has been consisting of thera tears as needed, and muro 128 at night, and occasionally during the day, if I need a heavy lubricant. I've been wearing wrap around sunglasses at work to avoid air movement, but I've been increasingly tired of coworkers comments. If I have a particularly bad day, I wear an eye patch. (When I come home from work, I often wear the patch just to rest my eye at night.)
I have picked up a pair of the Tranquileyes goggles and been using them at night for a week, and also placed a humidifier in my bedroom and increased the humidity to 65%. I have also been taking about 2000mg of flax seed oil a day, and consuming about 1/2 to 3/4 of a gallon of water before bed each night. My eye feels weak, but I am hoping that this aggressive hydration route will lead to healing after a few months.
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