Hi everyone.
Firstly I'd like to say how glad I am to find this site. Myself and my mother have dry eye and I have so many questions.
The main one is, how does everyone cope with work? I work in an office environment and I find that some offices are ok for my eyes, with others my dyes dry up within a couple of hours, which results in the pain setting in a day or so later and it takes 1 - 2 weeks for it to get back to normal. Other offices cause a problem but not as severely as others.
I moved to a new office recently and my (very understanding) boss asked me to spend a couple of days in the new office to check I was ok. I was fine so I moved jobs and someone has replaced my old position. But after 4 days the dry eye started and over the weekend the pain increased. I cannot understand why this is when the other office didn't seem much different and I was ok there. Both have closed windows, things like printers/faxes and computers. I am using the same laptop I took with me. This has happened before and it sends me straight into panic mode. I have a history of stress and a lot of it relates to the worry from thinking I may not be able to cope with work. What is it about offices that sets it off? I know it is not low humidity as I have taken a reading and it is the same in the good and bad offices. If anyone can throw some light onto this I would be so grateful. At the moment I cannot tell my employer what it is I need to be ok so it's impossible for them to help me.
I have tried moving desks away from a group of printers I was very close to - maybe that made it worse? Now the pain is staying the same and I don't know if it's that I haven't recovered from a week ago at the old desk or if there is still a problem. I don't know what to do next!
Do other people work in offices?
My dry eye can vary between quite uncomfortable to so painful I honestly think sticking a pin in my eyeball could not make it hurt any more. Is this similar to what other people experience?
Firstly I'd like to say how glad I am to find this site. Myself and my mother have dry eye and I have so many questions.
The main one is, how does everyone cope with work? I work in an office environment and I find that some offices are ok for my eyes, with others my dyes dry up within a couple of hours, which results in the pain setting in a day or so later and it takes 1 - 2 weeks for it to get back to normal. Other offices cause a problem but not as severely as others.
I moved to a new office recently and my (very understanding) boss asked me to spend a couple of days in the new office to check I was ok. I was fine so I moved jobs and someone has replaced my old position. But after 4 days the dry eye started and over the weekend the pain increased. I cannot understand why this is when the other office didn't seem much different and I was ok there. Both have closed windows, things like printers/faxes and computers. I am using the same laptop I took with me. This has happened before and it sends me straight into panic mode. I have a history of stress and a lot of it relates to the worry from thinking I may not be able to cope with work. What is it about offices that sets it off? I know it is not low humidity as I have taken a reading and it is the same in the good and bad offices. If anyone can throw some light onto this I would be so grateful. At the moment I cannot tell my employer what it is I need to be ok so it's impossible for them to help me.
I have tried moving desks away from a group of printers I was very close to - maybe that made it worse? Now the pain is staying the same and I don't know if it's that I haven't recovered from a week ago at the old desk or if there is still a problem. I don't know what to do next!
Do other people work in offices?
My dry eye can vary between quite uncomfortable to so painful I honestly think sticking a pin in my eyeball could not make it hurt any more. Is this similar to what other people experience?
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