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It seems as though my chronic dry eyes really start to take their toll around 6 in the evening. Though, they do bug me all throughout the day. I am...

At the age of 66, I was diagnosed with age related macular degeneration (AMD). My dry AMD rapidly progressed to the intermediate stage. Two years later I was diagnosed with chronic dry...

Prior to being diagnosed, I had heard of dry eye before and even knew someone who had it. But I still didn’t really understand it. My journey with chronic dry...

Barby shares her experience getting diagnosed with chronic dry eye (CDE) and what she wishes others knew. I developed chronic dry eye secondary to reflex sympathetic dystrophy, also known as...

What caused this? And what can I do to fix it? These have been the driving questions of my dry eye journey. Frustratingly, chronic dry eye can have many different...

Restasis is an immunomodulating drug that helps decrease inflammation and dry eyes. After lubricating eye drops, it is the second thing my optometrist recommended for my chronic dry eye. During...

My first step to getting diagnosed was at an eye exam (this was probably 2-3 years ago). I told my eye doctor how my eyes felt. He examined them and...

How many mistakes can one person make over the years when using eye drops? I’ll tell you how many. Plenty! I’m quite appalled when I look back at what I...

BlephEx and MiboFlow felt like spa treatments for my eyes. My doctor recommended these procedures when after several months of other treatments for my aqueous deficient dry eye, he determined...

Cataract surgery is a topic that frequently comes up in the chronic dry eye community. Most often, the community member had cataract surgery and has since developed chronic dry eye. The question...

I was sitting in my minivan in the Subway parking lot on my way back from my appointment with my dry eye specialist. People passed by on both sides of...

I have always experienced light sensitivity. If the sun was too bright, I’d get a headache. I never understood why people liked bright, sunny days; I dreaded them. If I...

The first ophthalmologist that I visited gave me a prescription for Restasis. That can take up to 6 months to work, and while I gave it a good 5 months...

The path to getting diagnosed and treated for chronic dry eye can look a little different for everyone. Sometimes it takes a long time to get a proper diagnosis. And...

One of the most famous lines from the Whole30 program is this: “It is not hard. Don’t you dare tell us this is hard. Fighting cancer is hard. Birthing a...

My journey with getting diagnosed with chronic dry eye has been a long ride. I remember my first reaction like yesterday, and I remember waking up, and I couldn't see...

I live in rural Oklahoma in an official food desert area. The nearest store is 15 miles, and fresh food is very limited. That means that at least once a week, I...

My dry eyes had been getting worse, and my ophthalmologist and I weren't making any progress. In the evening, I couldn't keep my eyes open to read or watch television...

I remember struggling so much with my eyes in the office environment. Reading emails, working with spreadsheets and numbers, my vision would begin to blur and double after looking at...

Results. That’s the main interest of anyone suffering from life-altering dry eye disease. We want to know, “Will this treatment help me?” And while the results of different treatments vary...