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Hi Everyone,
Just found this Web Site and there is so much info here I am in overload and my eyes are screaming at me "Go to bed, go to bed!" It is almost midnight my time so I will be brief in my introduction.
I have Sjogrens Disease a Syndrome of Rheumatoid arthritis which I have had for almost 35 years. My eyes have only begun to be really dry the past year. I also have dry skin and vaginal dryness.
I've been told to use drops for a long time but would do so only if they felt dry and that is a no no because the retina can be dry w/o you noticing too much dryness.
Last summer (2007) I began to have a lot of floaters and one night on the computer I saw what looked like fish eggs so called the Opthalmologist in the morning and he had me come right in. My R eye was in traction or in other words the retina was trying to tear loose. Well, believe you me, after that episode I have faithfully dropped all day.
For what reason I don't know, the past month has been awful. Dr. suggested Restasis which I started 3 weeks ago and also she suggested I use a salve at night. My eyes feel much better from that. (the salve, I mean.) Now after a bit of reading at the Dry Eye Site I don't know if that is very wise. I think I am going to order Dwelle after a bit more research. Then I may have to try the Kit. Please forgive me if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about with mispellings of the products etc as this is all new to me as of a couple hours ago.
With that bit of intro I am going to go to bed but would love to chat with you guys anytime and or blog or post or whatever.
Flicka
Just found this Web Site and there is so much info here I am in overload and my eyes are screaming at me "Go to bed, go to bed!" It is almost midnight my time so I will be brief in my introduction.
I have Sjogrens Disease a Syndrome of Rheumatoid arthritis which I have had for almost 35 years. My eyes have only begun to be really dry the past year. I also have dry skin and vaginal dryness.
I've been told to use drops for a long time but would do so only if they felt dry and that is a no no because the retina can be dry w/o you noticing too much dryness.
Last summer (2007) I began to have a lot of floaters and one night on the computer I saw what looked like fish eggs so called the Opthalmologist in the morning and he had me come right in. My R eye was in traction or in other words the retina was trying to tear loose. Well, believe you me, after that episode I have faithfully dropped all day.
For what reason I don't know, the past month has been awful. Dr. suggested Restasis which I started 3 weeks ago and also she suggested I use a salve at night. My eyes feel much better from that. (the salve, I mean.) Now after a bit of reading at the Dry Eye Site I don't know if that is very wise. I think I am going to order Dwelle after a bit more research. Then I may have to try the Kit. Please forgive me if I sound like I don't know what I'm talking about with mispellings of the products etc as this is all new to me as of a couple hours ago.
With that bit of intro I am going to go to bed but would love to chat with you guys anytime and or blog or post or whatever.
Flicka