Hi i am Vicky from Ohio. I got dry eye in December 2008, so about 4 months ago. I am currently on restasis, lotemax, and elestat. i use soothe xp tears and genteal gel at night or whenever i have severe eye pain. iIuse hot compresses. I take omega 3 fish oil. I have plugs in both eyes but they keep falling out so my eye doctor wnats to close them with some small surgery. I wear wrap around tinted, padded prescription glasses. my eyes feel much better with the glasses on. When I take them off I am right away irriated. The wind and air conditioners are ruining my spring. My vision was affected and I could barely see but when I went to the eye doc the last time I got 20/20 vision with my glasses on! So i am making some progress. Goo sometimes gets on my eyes and I have to put tears on the end of a q-tip and get it out. I fear my eyes will at some point get damaged. I am scared. I have been very upset and depressed since this started because one minute I will be ok, the next i'm in terrible pain. I am trying to do anything I can to make this better. I am sure I will learn what makes it worse. I learned to deal with epilepsy and asthma and they are both now under control so I figure I can learn how to deal with this. It will just take some time. Wish me luck. I will need it, and God Bless all of you out there who are having to deal with this. It sure can mess up your life. Hang in there and I will too.

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