Dry eye caught me completely off guard and turned my life upside down. I am slowly reclaiming bits and pieces but a lot of things are still not okay. I still don’t know why my major symptom is blinking pain whereas most people here complain of burning pain, for instance.
In any case, this is my first major disease. I had issues due to a benign tumour in my joint but it has not affected me nearly as much as the dry eye and the pain. I would label my life as ordinary before this. I had bouts of depression, anxiety, and OCD but never to a crippling extent (until dry eye, of course). I have tinnitus now, too, due to stress (prior to DES) but thankfully at my volume it is a nuisance (sometimes intense) not pain or debilitating noise.
Did you ever have to face anything like that before? Or have you dealt with other life crises before that maybe helped you prepare for the dry eye battle? Dry eye survivors and those in the dry eye journey, do you feel you are stronger now? Or has it scared you? How are you coping?
In any case, this is my first major disease. I had issues due to a benign tumour in my joint but it has not affected me nearly as much as the dry eye and the pain. I would label my life as ordinary before this. I had bouts of depression, anxiety, and OCD but never to a crippling extent (until dry eye, of course). I have tinnitus now, too, due to stress (prior to DES) but thankfully at my volume it is a nuisance (sometimes intense) not pain or debilitating noise.
Did you ever have to face anything like that before? Or have you dealt with other life crises before that maybe helped you prepare for the dry eye battle? Dry eye survivors and those in the dry eye journey, do you feel you are stronger now? Or has it scared you? How are you coping?
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