Dry Eye - Please Help

I wore contacts for about the same amount of time when I was a teen, i'm a year older than u now.

Anyway... I can only tell u my experiences with the mysterious supposed "dry eye" as doctors call it. I have the same problems and pain u have... One doctor said I had iritis and gave me steriod drops. Ohhhhh... That was better than chocolate (u know what I mean), it took away the pain! It still comes back once in a while but the drops fix it but they make my pupils big and even more light sensitive... But the pain is gone!

You cannot wear contacts while on those drops tho.

Anyway... Ask about it next time. It is an infection of the eye basically.

Try increasing you intake of omega 3 acids. One easy way to do this is to eat tuna 5 days a week. Google it. It helped me with my dry eye symptoms and helped rid my eye of infections caused by blepharitis. Takes a while to see results though, so be patient.

Many thanks for your help.
Is it just tuna mainly that is good for it. Not too keen on that but makerel and salmon are good. Im also taking omega 3,6 and 9 vitamin tablets but guess they will take a while to work too.
Thanks

Hey man, i've heard that tuna has the highest amount of omega 3 of all the fish. Maybe you won't need it since you're taking the omega 3 supplements, but then again you might lose some of the natural benefits of eating actual food that contains it.

I didn't like the taste of tuna either, but it's grown on me. Just cover up the taste with pepper or other condiments. I prefer honey mustard.

But anyways good luck.

Be careful eating too much tuna, I got extremely sick one time eating to much of it as you can get gold poisoning. Puritan's pride has the 3-6-9 oil capsules (fish, flax and borage oil) and I used to work for a lady who used aand swore by the occulite(sp) by bausch&laumb(sp) med that helped her and it was otc. But I use the artificial tears and when my eyes do get infected I get a prescription.
Good luck!

Sandyallen, i'm not saying you're not telling the truth, but can you provide a link that explains what you're claiming? I did a quick search on google for "tuna gold poisoning" and came up with some hits for mercury poisoning, but not gold. I'm pretty sure there would be a greater outcry if it was that dangerous. Some bodybuilders eat tuna religiously, multiple times a day every day for the low fat protein. And obviously, they aren't dead or unhealthy.

Thanks guys for your help.
I stupidly just went out and bought a load of tinned tuna, then read on a website that tinned tuna is no good and its fresh tuna only - doh! I guess the cat will be happy anyway :-(

ive also just read that foods rich in carbs like pasta, rice, potatoes are not good for dry eye either! Oh my goodness I love these!
Have you guys heard of this and if its true, any suggestions as to what to eat with all this fish going on in my life now!

I cant believe this is happening to me! Where's this come from?
Moving to the med in 3 weeks but its taking it outta me all this dry eye stuff and im not excited at all now

thanks
lorraine :roll:

Hi guys
not sure if im posting in the right bit or not but just thought I would tell you about some drops I got from the hospital (doc can prescribe too though) and they were brilliant.
Ive tried about 8 or 9 over the counter ones and they are just not good enough.
But when I had my eyes checked in december at the hospital the guy gave me these. You can use them with lenses too

they are called celluvisc. Individual packets which you tear off and then throw away after use.

Cheers
lorraine

Greetings

i too suffered from terrible dry eyes (no longer able to use contact lens many years ago) its worse after I manopause. My doctor has suggest puntual plug? Anyone tried that before?

Thanks
tjoa fariba

Hey there not been on here for long time so thought I wold post I have dry eyes I am blind in my right eye I do u jar tears that u put in your eyes but is this other thing you can use. I have been told about fact tears how good are they.

Caroline rep back

Hi , I ve had dry eyes since I can remember
used to wear contacts but couldn't stand them cause dry eyes
so I underwent lasik and the dry eyes (espescially the right one) continued.

I tryed almost every eyedrop and ointment that's available untill I googled dry eyes and tuna

now I eat a can of tuna for 5 days a week and it helps , it really does ...
Give it a while to take effect (a week or more) ... Hope it benefits you too ...

All you need to know about dry eyes you can read it here:
http://www.Wiseor b.Com/articles-review-478-t-dry_eyes%3a_th e_problem_of_this_time%2e.Htm

about dry eye , i want to say another thing, that is you should wear glasses when you go out,especially the weather is too hot or windy,so , a suitable sunglasses is important indeed

Kind of reviving a dormant topic here but I didn't see much on dry eye recently and this is my personal hot button so I'm going to post in this thread... follow-up to the tuna debates.

Dry eye is usually not about being "dry", unless it's associated with auto-immune disease or a rare cause where the lacrimal (moisture-producing) glands are affected. Dry eye is about anything and everything that goes wrong with the tear film, which is made of a lot of substances.

Commonly, dry eye symptoms are caused by the meibomian (oil) glands in the upper and lower eyelids not producing enough oil, or the oil becoming thick and hard in the glands rather than flowing into the tear film. This oil is what keeps your tears from evaporating too quickly. CARE OF THE OIL GLANDS is essential to keeping your glands healthy.

That's why tuna and omega 3 supplements are the rage. They are supposed to fight inflammation in the meibomian glands.

But Omega 3 does not work for everyone. Improving meibomian gland function may involve:
- Omega 3
- Warm compresses (hot washloth, rice baggy, etc)
- Oral antibiotics
- Lid hygiene if it's related to blepharitis

Anyone who has dry eye that is, or is becoming, chronic needs to learn about the causes and types of dry eye. DON'T JUST KEEP PUTTING EYEDROPS IN YOUR EYES. Find out what the cause is and get it treated properly. There are many pitfalls in dry eye treatment - both when you're trying to handle it on your own, and when you're seeing doctors who are not dry eye specialists. I find it very sad that so many people treat it wrong until it has progressed to the point from which it may not be reversible.

I highly recommend Dr. Latkany's book The Dry Eye Remedy. It does a terrific job of explaining the real causes of dry eye and practical things you can do for prevention and care. It's available from all the usual places and it's a great investment for anyone with dry eye.