Anaesthetising eye-drops?

[OompaLoompa]

Hi,

there is something I wanted to find out for a long time: One of the first times I was in a clinic to get my dry eyes checked the responsible doctor wanted to take a thorough look at my eyes. I guess because of that he made me take some kind of anaesthetising eye-drops so that he could really "work" (^^) on my eyes without causing me too much pain. For easily 3-4 hours after I had taken these eye drops my eyes felt much, much better.
My question is: Wouldn't it be possible to take such eye-drops constantly? Does anyone know more about it? I mean, many people have chronical health problems/pain of all kinds. And many people are treated with narcotics, painkillers etc.
Why wouldn't that be possible too for people who suffer from dry eyes?

[Irina]

What is the name of the drops you use?

[patrick]

Hi,

Try the interweb for nsaid eye drops.
Not sure,but i thought these are sometimes used for fong term pain management in dry eye and allergic conjunctivitis...

[OompaLoompa]

What is the name of the drops you use?

That is part of my question. I don't actually know what such drops would be called. My former doctor used them once on me and that's it.

Hi,

Try the interweb for nsaid eye drops.
Not sure,but i thought these are sometimes used for fong term pain management in dry eye and allergic conjunctivitis...

Well, in my case it wouldn't really be for "pain" management. Naturally there are different definitions of pain and to a certain degree I might say that my eyes hurt. However, I'm much more interested in anaesthetising eye drops due to the general gritty felling of my eyes, the sensitivity that creates difficulties when reading and the photophobia.
Since anaesthetising eye drops should make the eyes less sensitive I would guess that all these symptoms would be addressed by such eye drops, and, as I've explained, the one time I have used such eye drops it indeed made my eyes feel much more comfortable.

[MGD30]

I asked my eye doctor about this and he said that the numbing drops cannot be taken regularly.

[patrick]

Mr. Loompa,

Anesthethic eye drops are highly toxic if used long term and can cause some nasty side effects. A lot of more in depth information can be found if you google the search term 'anesthethic eye drops'.
To my knowledge only nsaid eye drops are currently used in some cases for long term pain management and reduction of ocular inflammation. But i am not an expert at all.
Maybe someone here who can tell a little more about this subject?..