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  • Red Burning eyes - Completely cured 8 years later. 27 y/o

    I finally fixed my problem. I am sharing this because I suspect lots of people may have the same problem as me, but it is being missed by their ophthalmologists. I'm making this succinct because I want you to read the entire thing.

    Symptoms: Red Burning eyes 24/7.
    Duration: 8 years
    The only alleviating thing that works was Castor oil before bed. This helped with the pain, not the redness
    Treatments: I used 0.025% Briminodine solution to treat the redness daily for 1 year
    Hot masks don't work. Sometimes makes it feel worse.

    Diagnosis:
    1) Blepharitis (wrong)
    2) MGD dysfunction (wrong)

    Both diagnoses are wrong. I've had my tear film tested, and once it was found unstable, the other time it was found to be fine. A flare up can make it LOOK like you have a problem with your glands, when really thats just secondary to the real problem.

    I met a great ophthalmologist who noticed something everyone else had missed. There are dry-eye symptoms concentrated on my lower, medial side of my eye especially. The sclera covered by my upper-eye lid was perfectly fine. This tells us that I may not be closing my eyes entirely when I sleep.

    So, I taped my eyes shut at night. This worked ONCE, then it stopped working. I had a taste of what life could be like.
    Then I figured it out. When I sleep at night, my eyes appear fully shut. Even if you look at me, you wouldn't notice unless you REALLY knew what to look for. Heres what to look for:

    The medial side of my eyelids that seals just the "caruncle" peak open just a sliver and expose a THIN slice of that mucosal surface of the caruncle when I sleep. Its such a small sliver, I can't even believe this had any effect on my eyes. When I tape my eyes shut, I have to be sure that I tape shut & cover the most medial part of my eyelid. When I do this, my eyes are near perfect in the morning. I don't even have to use eye drops.

    I'm really lucky to have discovered this for myself. I imagine that many people would have tried taping their eyes shut (and missed the key location) and convinced themselves that their eyelids are not the problem.

    I hope this helps someone break their curse so they can live life to the fullest. Please let me know if this helps you.


  • #2
    thanks for sharing

    how do you tape your eyes?

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    • #3
      Once piece along the angle where the eye meets the nose. Apply it so it pulls the upperlid down a bit. And another piece somewhere in the middle of the eye, also applying downward tension.

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      • #4
        I have MGD. My meibomian glands do not produce oil which makes my eyes uncomfortable. Do you think taping my eyelids will help oil secretion?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Idealist321 View Post
          I have MGD. My meibomian glands do not produce oil which makes my eyes uncomfortable. Do you think taping my eyelids will help oil secretion?
          During the night? No - your eyes are probably already closed at night.

          I would recommend against closing your eyes for long periods of time during the day. If you're closing your eyes, you're not blinking and thus making your MGD worse.
          What you need to know about computer-induced dry eye
          Dry Eye Survey
          IPL Doctors
          Probing Doctors

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          • #6
            Okay. But warm compress doesnt work. I believe my meibomian glands have atrophied by now. What should I do to recover them?

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Idealist321 View Post
              Okay. But warm compress doesnt work. I believe my meibomian glands have atrophied by now. What should I do to recover them?
              If you've never had an advanced treatment for MGD (e.g., LipiFlow or IPL), it is probably too soon to say whether your glands are atrophied or whether they are just clogged with thick oil. Have you had a meibography done yet?
              What you need to know about computer-induced dry eye
              Dry Eye Survey
              IPL Doctors
              Probing Doctors

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              • #8
                Ive had dry eyes/MGD for 7 months. I haven’t had a meibography yet but I plan to soon. Hopefully my glands are fine.

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                • #9
                  YAY! So happy for you, Raven93! I feel like this is exactly my issue. No treatments seem to be helping and I always wake up with redness. It seems like my quality of sleep is directly related to how bad my eyes are the next day! I've tried taping them and using Traquileyes with no luck. Maybe, like you say, I've been taping them wrong! Did it take you time to get used to sleeping with the tape on? I find I wake up in the morning and I've ripped it off in the night

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by dryeyesandchocolate View Post
                    YAY! So happy for you, Raven93! I feel like this is exactly my issue. No treatments seem to be helping and I always wake up with redness. It seems like my quality of sleep is directly related to how bad my eyes are the next day! I've tried taping them and using Traquileyes with no luck. Maybe, like you say, I've been taping them wrong! Did it take you time to get used to sleeping with the tape on? I find I wake up in the morning and I've ripped it off in the night
                    Traquileyes alone does not work for me. I also have a problem where I rip off the tape during the night. I often tape my eyes AND use Traquileyes for double protection, which 90% of the time does the trick!

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