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I started noticing dry eye symptoms when I was a teenager (I’m now 42). I was wearing soft contact lenses at the time and not always in tune with my...

“Put honey in your eyes?” That was my initial response as I read on a dry eye forum about other people’s experiences using Manuka Honey Eye Gel by Optimel. I...

When you have chronic dry eye, keeping up with eye care can be challenging. Between eyelid cleanses, topical treatments, eye drops, prescription medications, heating masks, eyelid massages, blinking exercises, lens maintenance...

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...

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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...

Here I demonstrate how I use the iTEAR100 Neurostimulator for my aqueous deficient dry eyes. I describe the experience as I show how it is used, and I explain my...

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...

I use my NuLids device every night to help clean my eyelids. It has helped with my blepharitis and meibomian gland dysfunction. See how the device works in this video...

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...

Chronic dry eye (CDE) is caused by a lack of tears. Those with CDE either do not make enough tears or have unhealthy tears that cannot wet the eye. There...

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...