Thought I'd introduce myself and tell my story.
Six years ago I was a healthy 20 year old male, life was good. I was slightly shortsighted and after wearing glasses occassionaly decided to try some daily disposable soft contact lenses. I wore these for six months every day 8 till late. A couple of nights I got drunk, as you do, and woke up in the morning to find that i had forgotten to take the contacts out and they were now welded to my eyes.. no big deal.. take them out.. The second time i did it my eyes went really red and inflamed.. I went to my doctor who gave me the standard drops for eye infections. These did not alleviate the symtoms so I went to an Opthamologist who prescribed me with an antibiotic ointment. This did nothing. So went back and she gave me some Steroid drops... After two weeks they worked my eyes went white again, everything back to normal, happy days. A few weeks later I noticed that upon awakening my eyes felt kind of dry... Five and a half years down the line I have moderate/severe dry eye and my life has gone to s**t. Sad to say it but it has really affected me badly. My schimmer results are 3 in one eye and 4 in the other. I have had the test done 3 times. I have tested negative for Sjrogrens twice. I have normal lashes and lid margins. I have been to see about ten eye docs, tried everything. Plugs have improved my comfort particularly at night, but have removed those while I am trying Restasis. Been on it for six months nearly, so will be seeing eye doc soon to see if it has boosted my schimmer results. fingers crossed. It seem to have improved my condition about 25% so thats good. Am about to try Biotears because I think/hope its anti inflammatory properties may work well with the Restasis. Will have another schimmer test done later in year to see if it is working. Will also layer back in the Theratears eye drops to the treatment which have also proved effective in the past. I think its not a bad idea to evaluate treatments on there own before combining them otherwise its hard to know what works and what doesn't. Anyway I won't bore you any futher, could have easily written twice as much. If theres one thing I've learned apart from not sleeping in contact lenses, its be persistent in finding treatments and doctors that work for you. Good luck
Six years ago I was a healthy 20 year old male, life was good. I was slightly shortsighted and after wearing glasses occassionaly decided to try some daily disposable soft contact lenses. I wore these for six months every day 8 till late. A couple of nights I got drunk, as you do, and woke up in the morning to find that i had forgotten to take the contacts out and they were now welded to my eyes.. no big deal.. take them out.. The second time i did it my eyes went really red and inflamed.. I went to my doctor who gave me the standard drops for eye infections. These did not alleviate the symtoms so I went to an Opthamologist who prescribed me with an antibiotic ointment. This did nothing. So went back and she gave me some Steroid drops... After two weeks they worked my eyes went white again, everything back to normal, happy days. A few weeks later I noticed that upon awakening my eyes felt kind of dry... Five and a half years down the line I have moderate/severe dry eye and my life has gone to s**t. Sad to say it but it has really affected me badly. My schimmer results are 3 in one eye and 4 in the other. I have had the test done 3 times. I have tested negative for Sjrogrens twice. I have normal lashes and lid margins. I have been to see about ten eye docs, tried everything. Plugs have improved my comfort particularly at night, but have removed those while I am trying Restasis. Been on it for six months nearly, so will be seeing eye doc soon to see if it has boosted my schimmer results. fingers crossed. It seem to have improved my condition about 25% so thats good. Am about to try Biotears because I think/hope its anti inflammatory properties may work well with the Restasis. Will have another schimmer test done later in year to see if it is working. Will also layer back in the Theratears eye drops to the treatment which have also proved effective in the past. I think its not a bad idea to evaluate treatments on there own before combining them otherwise its hard to know what works and what doesn't. Anyway I won't bore you any futher, could have easily written twice as much. If theres one thing I've learned apart from not sleeping in contact lenses, its be persistent in finding treatments and doctors that work for you. Good luck
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