Intro - Bob

[justbob]

Hi everyone, my name is Bob, I'm 41 and live in UK.

My problems first started when I had a virus in february last year, which I think was adenovirus. The virus got into my eyes and I had antibacterial drops, it cleared pretty quickly and I thought nothing of it, 2 weeks later I went to...

[sleek822]

Hi
In the last 10 years since I've had blepharits/MGD, I've noticed that I cannot cry tears (the emotional sort). Does anyone else have the same problem?
When I am chopping onions though, I can cry reflex tears.
I think the Accutane I was on damaged or clogged the meibomian glands....

[Leelah]

So the first time I tried doxy, I was on 100mg a day and my eyes cleared up in a matter of days. Unfortunately after a couple of weeks, my eyes were back to normal.. and I thought that was the end of it. Doxy was not the cure.

About a year later, I asked my GP to put me on mino, but...

[Max]

http://www.modernmedicine.com/modern....jsp?id=741069

I visited a NC group associated with Duke University to investigate if this treatment could help me.

I was told that after long testing I would be rated as 1 (most treatable) to 10 (impossible...

[zuzu70]

I keep getting a small (smaller than poppy-seed size) golden-yellow oily looking pimple thing on my eyelid margin. There is one that comes and goes away within a few days on my lower margin, and another on my upper eyelid margin. Is this a blocked meibomian gland?

I'm doing warm moist...

[M@ri@]

Today I had an appointment with a new opthalmologist who suggested that I get punctal plugs in the near future if my eye condition does not improve.

He also recommended daily cold compresses to encourage my meibomian (oil) glands to produce/ let out more oil.

He said hot/warm...

[Jesslin]

Hi everyone,

I noticed while doing hot compresses recently that when I apply pressure to the glands lots of oil comes out, the oil seems to be clear and as it should be upon first inspection but then when I blink lots of little (mainly white) particles and lumps travel across my eye surface,...

[Physician]

I'm not an eye doctor. For the past two months I've had increased tears, never enough to run over my cheeks. I've been to three optometrists and three Ophthalmologists from San Francisco to San Jose, California. Not one of the eye doctors agreed on a treatment, but they all said via slit lamp...

[Meebo]

Well, I like to keep things short and sweet and rarely take "no" or "can't" for an answer.

I recently have been waking up with dryish eyes. Dryish meaning just that where they ache to an extent and then tears begin. I have been reading this board for about a month...