eye drops

[Karen]

What do you do when you get sick and tired of putting drops in your eye?  Somedays I get so tired of it all and today is one of the days.   I have a numb cornea and have to be very careful.  Somedays I think it would be a whole lot easier to have the eye sewn shut!!!   I don't know if using an eye patch would be a good idea if I don't have feeling.  I use Celluvisc every hour or so now.  Karen                                               

[Jeanlea]

Karen,

Some days are just that way.  I've thought of sewing my shut at times.  But then I'm glad I didn't.  Even with lots of ointment and/or gel I still get vision from it that I think I would miss.  On days when I don't want to worry about putting in a lot of gel drops I put in ointment in the morning and I'm good until the evening, especially now in the summer with all of the humidity.  The good part of having a numb cornea is that we don't feel any pain.  I suppose you could tape your eye shut and put a black patch over and act like a pirate.  :-) 
Hope tomorrow is a better day.

Jean

[nancyann]

Hi Karen:  I still use Refresh PM eye lubricant every 2 hours or so,  been doing it for over 2 years.    I can feel when my cornea gets dry, my eye starts to burn.

I've still got some 'tweaking' to do re: eye surgery to capture my tears.

You do what you gotta do my friend. 

Always good thoughts,   Nancy

[saralynn143]

Hi Karen. Sorry you are having a bad day.

When my eye gets tired (or I get tired of my eye, take your pick), I put Refresh PM on it and pop on the old pirate patch. The kind from the pharmacy won't touch your eye, so I don't think you would have to worry about your numb cornea. I never bother with taping my eye. It's too hard on my skin, and I have read that the potential for corneal injuries is actually higher from tape than from patches.

Also, a trick I learned from my LASIK days -- sometimes my dry eye will feel better just by putting moisturizer on my face. I don't know why it works but it does, at least for me.

Hope you feel better soon.

Sara

[mimoore]

 Oh this eye thing is a pain isn't it? I am putting Refresh Celluvisc in every 15 minutes. When I get frustrated I put in lacilube and when it really burns I patch it. I don't like my eye open under the patch so I wet a piece of gauze and then the patch - I get great relief.
Tomorrow is a new day!
Michelle 

[saralynn143]

Karen, I got a pair of RSVP Onion Goggles today. They are a lot more helpful than I thought they would be. They were designed to keep onion fumes away from your eyes, but the foam makes them into a pair of clear moisture chamber glasses. They run about $20 (about the same as two tubes of Refresh PM!) and you can find them at amazon.com or on eBay, other places too, I'm sure.

I was ready to put in some Refresh PM and pop on the pirate patch when I discovered the box from amazon.com in the mail and decided to give the onion goggles a try. I was able to go for a really long time before i needed more drops.

Sara

[Debbi]

Good recommendation on the onoin goggles!  I have never even heard of them.  I may have to look into one for those times when I can't wear the blinkeze. 

Sara, is your eye weight helping?  I find I don't have to lube nearly as often with it - I use the thickest Celluvisc every hour or so - as compared to every 15 minutes without the eye weight.   

I keep "testing" my eye to see if it is making tears yet - I've been chopping a lot of onioins but no tears (except for my good eye which is working really well!  )

I still use puralube (cheaper than lacrilube, same ingredients) at night - Refresh PM doesn't quite do it for me at night.

sigh...

Debbi

[mimoore]

http://www.dryeyeyellowpages.com/products/eyewear/oniongoggles.html
As Sara said they come in green or pink. Pink supporting breast cancer research.

More great stuff here:
http://www.dryeyeyellowpages.com/products/index.html
I bought the tranquileyes and use the extra foam inserts, that have two way tape, and stuck them inside my sun glasses and at times I put them on for relief.  It works so well when you are outside - good so your eye doesn't dry out and nothing can blow or fly in.
Michelle 

[saralynn143]

Debbi,

Yes, the eyelid implant seems to be helping. My left eye doesn't blink as much as I hoped, but it seems to be improving -- I can see a shadow when I blink so it's coming down some. My eye does pretty well in the morning, but starts to get drier in the afternoon. I have a follow-up with Dr. Custer tomorrow afternoon so I should know more then.

Sara

[mimoore]

Good luck with your follow up tomorrow Sara. Let us know how it goes.
Michelle