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Hi. I have been a visitor here for a year or so as I bought the tranquileyes goggles here. I am 43 and have Sjogrens syndrome. I figured this out a year and a half ago even though bloodwork is inconclusive. Eyes are so bad at night especially...I wake up from the dryness and have to put drops in before bed and twice in the night. Extremely light sensitive too...cant turn on a light in the morning...thank goodness for dimmer switches! I know you can relate. Driving into the sun is impossible and my sun visor broke on the car so I cant move it to the side when the sun is coming in that way. Strange how these things become indispensable. I wear non prescription glasses all the time...vision is fine but the air shield helps. A sense of humour also helps lol as I also wear these embarrassing shop glasses when I can get away with it ( ie alone or with kids around). Great fashion statement. I am walking humidistat at home in the dry Canadian winters...I can tell when it drps below 50 in the house and end up boiling pots of water on the stove. It is nice to know I am not alone although it feels that way amonsgst the people I know.
Some things that have helped considerably especially the last three months: cutting out wheat, fish oil, bioidentical progesterone cream ( not on eyes but on skin elsehwere) and sea buckthorn oil . I take Seabuckthorn capsules once or twice a day and put a bit of the seed oil on my eyelids. I have gone from a seven out of ten in terms of discomfort to a 4 or a 5 now so I am sharing this to hopefully help some of you. Hard to tell which if these has been responsible or if it is all of it.
I am now about to try the progesterone/ testosterone eye drops from Leiter's. My opthamologist wrote me a prescrip at my request and I want to try it. I do think it makes sense that hormones play a part especially seeing a difference from progesterone cream. I tried estriol and it made them worse and I also notice cyclically that when estrogen is high my eyes are worse. So I am waiting for them to arrive and wanted to know how any one else fared with these. I know there is one poster here who is trying them.
Also wondering if anyone else is having success with sea buckthorn. I was confused to see Dr Oz writing an article saying that sea buckthorn is inflammatory when he was the one pushing this originally. It appears as if he is trying to sell a purified Omega 7 which is straight palmitoleic oil as opposed to palmitic and palmitoleic oil which are in sea buckthorn. Apaprently palmitoleic is the anti inlammatory oil so maybe he is onto something but is sea buckthorn truly a bad choice? I really do feel an improvement since taking it.
Thanks for reading this everyone and hang in there.
Some things that have helped considerably especially the last three months: cutting out wheat, fish oil, bioidentical progesterone cream ( not on eyes but on skin elsehwere) and sea buckthorn oil . I take Seabuckthorn capsules once or twice a day and put a bit of the seed oil on my eyelids. I have gone from a seven out of ten in terms of discomfort to a 4 or a 5 now so I am sharing this to hopefully help some of you. Hard to tell which if these has been responsible or if it is all of it.
I am now about to try the progesterone/ testosterone eye drops from Leiter's. My opthamologist wrote me a prescrip at my request and I want to try it. I do think it makes sense that hormones play a part especially seeing a difference from progesterone cream. I tried estriol and it made them worse and I also notice cyclically that when estrogen is high my eyes are worse. So I am waiting for them to arrive and wanted to know how any one else fared with these. I know there is one poster here who is trying them.
Also wondering if anyone else is having success with sea buckthorn. I was confused to see Dr Oz writing an article saying that sea buckthorn is inflammatory when he was the one pushing this originally. It appears as if he is trying to sell a purified Omega 7 which is straight palmitoleic oil as opposed to palmitic and palmitoleic oil which are in sea buckthorn. Apaprently palmitoleic is the anti inlammatory oil so maybe he is onto something but is sea buckthorn truly a bad choice? I really do feel an improvement since taking it.
Thanks for reading this everyone and hang in there.
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