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Hi everyone,
I've found this forum in my efforts to relieve some of the symptoms of dry eye after my LASIK surgery in Sept 2013 (now March 2014). Prior to LASIK, I would occasionally get some dry eyes at night, but would only be once a month or something and it was never painful, but it might wake me up, and it would always go away. For clarities sake, I do not have any dry eye issues during the day, at all.
However, since the LASIK, this has gotten to be far worse, like every night. The weird thing is...it only happens when I lay down. I don't even have to be sleeping. I could be laying on my couch and after 30 minutes, I notice my eyes starting to dry out. Then I sit back up, go make a PBJ, and I'm fine again. At night, it gets to the point of unbearable, waking me up usually around 330 with eyes that feels like pieces of dried fruit. As days go on, it starts to make my eyes ache, then slowly turns into a headache.
Whats sad about this is that I contacted the LASIK center about this, and they said that it has nothing to do with LASIK. So I found a different doctor who inspected my eyes and he clearly saw damage being done to my eye due to dry eyes and got me on Prednisolone to get the inflammation under control, but it didn't prevent the eyes from drying out when I lay down. After stopping use of Prednisolone, the achy eyes are coming back
This is highly depressing and my sleep is largely crap, and its affecting my life, just being more tired, losing motivation to go workout, etc
I have also tried just about every night time dry eye product, and I get the same result, waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning in pain. I also used a night time mask for a while, but it didnt help. I also have two humidifiers in my room. I even take omega acid, luteine, flaxseed, and coconut oil supplements to try and help with this.
I do have a theory though...probably not a good one, but the only one I could come up with: When I lay down, the direction of tear flow changes, which may be directed more to the puncta. Basically, water running down hill and into my nasal cavity. How do you punctal plugs work? Are they worthwhile?
Does anyone else have this issue?? How do you guys deal with dry eyes at night/laying down? If you guys know of any additional night time products, I would probably try them! Being a chemist, I've been researching this and I find that most artificial tears are just that...artificial. I've been reading articles and want to design tears that are as close to a natural tear film as possible! This pain is terrible...I really hope I don't have this the rest of my life LASIK is not worth this
I've found this forum in my efforts to relieve some of the symptoms of dry eye after my LASIK surgery in Sept 2013 (now March 2014). Prior to LASIK, I would occasionally get some dry eyes at night, but would only be once a month or something and it was never painful, but it might wake me up, and it would always go away. For clarities sake, I do not have any dry eye issues during the day, at all.
However, since the LASIK, this has gotten to be far worse, like every night. The weird thing is...it only happens when I lay down. I don't even have to be sleeping. I could be laying on my couch and after 30 minutes, I notice my eyes starting to dry out. Then I sit back up, go make a PBJ, and I'm fine again. At night, it gets to the point of unbearable, waking me up usually around 330 with eyes that feels like pieces of dried fruit. As days go on, it starts to make my eyes ache, then slowly turns into a headache.
Whats sad about this is that I contacted the LASIK center about this, and they said that it has nothing to do with LASIK. So I found a different doctor who inspected my eyes and he clearly saw damage being done to my eye due to dry eyes and got me on Prednisolone to get the inflammation under control, but it didn't prevent the eyes from drying out when I lay down. After stopping use of Prednisolone, the achy eyes are coming back
This is highly depressing and my sleep is largely crap, and its affecting my life, just being more tired, losing motivation to go workout, etcI have also tried just about every night time dry eye product, and I get the same result, waking up at 3 or 4 in the morning in pain. I also used a night time mask for a while, but it didnt help. I also have two humidifiers in my room. I even take omega acid, luteine, flaxseed, and coconut oil supplements to try and help with this.
I do have a theory though...probably not a good one, but the only one I could come up with: When I lay down, the direction of tear flow changes, which may be directed more to the puncta. Basically, water running down hill and into my nasal cavity. How do you punctal plugs work? Are they worthwhile?
Does anyone else have this issue?? How do you guys deal with dry eyes at night/laying down? If you guys know of any additional night time products, I would probably try them! Being a chemist, I've been researching this and I find that most artificial tears are just that...artificial. I've been reading articles and want to design tears that are as close to a natural tear film as possible! This pain is terrible...I really hope I don't have this the rest of my life
LASIK is not worth this
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