Do you have any blinking exercise exercises that work?

[CJ L.]

Hello all,

I've got moderate MGD, which doesn't sounds awful relatively speaking, but is still impacting every waking minute of my life. My eye dr recommended among other things blinking exercises as I'm not fully blinking regularly. He recommended the 2/2/2 method which is open your eyes...

[hopeful_hiker]

Still trying to figure out my blinking conundrum. Had a TBUT of 8 and 10 as well as good osmolarity and some MMP9 inflammation yesterday.

When I blink, sometimes even in 80%+ humidity, I can feel my eyelids kick my eyes as I blink (some days blinks are also painful and/or scrapey). I have...

[hopeful_hiker]

My partner was the first to notice that my blinks were not right. I have been recording my blinks since spring from time to time with a slow motion camera on my phone. Unless I concentrate on the blinks, I close my eyes 60-75% at most. I feel like I blink fully but I do not.

If I blink...

[hopeful_hiker]

Does blinking relieve your symptoms? Is it irritating, painful or rough? Sticky? Do you feel friction/skidding?
Or does blinking feel normal/smooth? Do you notice when you blink?


To Doctors: Have your patients ever complained about blinking?

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I posted about this...

[hopeful_hiker]

In late March my dry eye symptoms morphed into a new stage. Despite better signs, I have developed moderate to severe blinking discomfort. It caused me a lot of stress, panic attacks, and ironically tears (from sadness, not basal tears,of course).

I just don’t get it.

If anything,...

[LauraE]

I have been suffering with dry eyes for around 3 years off and on. I recently started a new job, spend all day at a computer with hot dry AC. I have quick tear breakup and my eyes feel very sore. One of the worse things is that I blink a crazy amount, it makes my eyes tired and inflamed. All the muscles...

[DocwithDryEye]

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[bodryn]

I've had dry eyes for a long time now and sort of diagnosed it myself but also have been told that I have it by one ophthalmologist. I am in my sixties now but one time when I was in my early twenties I was diagnosed with blepharitis which was then nicely treated by NeoCortef 0.5% solution (which some...