Hi All,
I've been reading this site for a while now and your wisdom and strength have been invaluable to me. This is the first time I'm posting and I just want to take a minute to introduce myself and tell you a bit about my story. I invite you to give me advice that you might think is helpful or to share your experience with me, especially if you're struggling with a similar eye issue. It's been really hard working with clients and looking them in the eyes when my eyes are constantly foaming. That's right. Froth froth froth. Mostly my eyes look and feel fine (except for some hard days) but they are pretty much constantly foamy in the outside corners.
I've always had allergies and my eyes were dry and itchy for a long time before the foaming began. Over a year ago I moved into an old house that had been completely renovated and after the big, dusty move my eyes turned completely bloodshot and I went to the doctor and they gave me antibiotics and steroids and didn't tell me much about my "condition" except that I should clean my eyes with baby shampoo and do warm compresses. After the course of antibiotics and steroids my eyes began to foam. Since then I have tried everything. Well, almost everything. My current regimen is based on Dr. Latkany's eye spa:
I use preservative free eyedrops throughout the day
Lid scrubs once in the morning and once in evening after compress/warmth of shower
Warm shower and light lid massage in morning
Warm compress with Thermoeyes beads at night
Omega 3s
Diet with no corn, wheat, soy, dairy, nightshades (tomato, eggplant)...I cheat sometime but I'm cleansing right now to check out dietary allergen possibilities.
As with most of you this has been a slow, painful process of discovery and trial and error and bad doctors and good doctors and discipline and depression and anger and frustration and hope. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and I finally went to see Dr. Mandel (he has a Lipiflow) who was wonderful and who said that my eyes weren't so bad and that I should keep following my regimen that's based on Dr. Latkany's prescribed eye spa regimen and come back in 6 months if I wasn't getting better. (I liked that he didn't overprescribe meds and he definitely said that I'm not bad off enough to do the Lipiflow.) Well, it's been 3 months and while I see some improvement I'm still foamy. It's so disheartening. What is up with this foam?? Anyone ever experience this? Some days I feel like nothing will ever change. I made an appointment with a local doctor just to get a third opinion before I go back to Dr. Mandel. I see her Friday. I'm much wiser than I was a year ago but I'm so freaking frustrated. Most people complain of a lot of other symptoms but I just have the foamy/teary eyes...and I've started to get eczema near my right eye (I think this could be stress or product use...it started long after my eye foam started). I was told my eyes weren't even that dry, just that I had plugged meibomian glands...MGD. I can see the puffy meibomian glands in my lower right eye and I just keep thinking that there's probably a low grade infection in there...and wondering when I'm going to finally beat it. Blah blah blah. It's too much to go into here. I just wanted to reach out and say hi and introduce myself. So, hi!
Thanks again for the support and if anyone has any wisdom to share about these pathogenic frothy tears (that's what I've heard them called), feel free to message me or offer advice/experience.
Warmly,
Shannon
I've been reading this site for a while now and your wisdom and strength have been invaluable to me. This is the first time I'm posting and I just want to take a minute to introduce myself and tell you a bit about my story. I invite you to give me advice that you might think is helpful or to share your experience with me, especially if you're struggling with a similar eye issue. It's been really hard working with clients and looking them in the eyes when my eyes are constantly foaming. That's right. Froth froth froth. Mostly my eyes look and feel fine (except for some hard days) but they are pretty much constantly foamy in the outside corners.
I've always had allergies and my eyes were dry and itchy for a long time before the foaming began. Over a year ago I moved into an old house that had been completely renovated and after the big, dusty move my eyes turned completely bloodshot and I went to the doctor and they gave me antibiotics and steroids and didn't tell me much about my "condition" except that I should clean my eyes with baby shampoo and do warm compresses. After the course of antibiotics and steroids my eyes began to foam. Since then I have tried everything. Well, almost everything. My current regimen is based on Dr. Latkany's eye spa:
I use preservative free eyedrops throughout the day
Lid scrubs once in the morning and once in evening after compress/warmth of shower
Warm shower and light lid massage in morning
Warm compress with Thermoeyes beads at night
Omega 3s
Diet with no corn, wheat, soy, dairy, nightshades (tomato, eggplant)...I cheat sometime but I'm cleansing right now to check out dietary allergen possibilities.
As with most of you this has been a slow, painful process of discovery and trial and error and bad doctors and good doctors and discipline and depression and anger and frustration and hope. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and I finally went to see Dr. Mandel (he has a Lipiflow) who was wonderful and who said that my eyes weren't so bad and that I should keep following my regimen that's based on Dr. Latkany's prescribed eye spa regimen and come back in 6 months if I wasn't getting better. (I liked that he didn't overprescribe meds and he definitely said that I'm not bad off enough to do the Lipiflow.) Well, it's been 3 months and while I see some improvement I'm still foamy. It's so disheartening. What is up with this foam?? Anyone ever experience this? Some days I feel like nothing will ever change. I made an appointment with a local doctor just to get a third opinion before I go back to Dr. Mandel. I see her Friday. I'm much wiser than I was a year ago but I'm so freaking frustrated. Most people complain of a lot of other symptoms but I just have the foamy/teary eyes...and I've started to get eczema near my right eye (I think this could be stress or product use...it started long after my eye foam started). I was told my eyes weren't even that dry, just that I had plugged meibomian glands...MGD. I can see the puffy meibomian glands in my lower right eye and I just keep thinking that there's probably a low grade infection in there...and wondering when I'm going to finally beat it. Blah blah blah. It's too much to go into here. I just wanted to reach out and say hi and introduce myself. So, hi!
Thanks again for the support and if anyone has any wisdom to share about these pathogenic frothy tears (that's what I've heard them called), feel free to message me or offer advice/experience.
Warmly,
Shannon
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