That’s really impressive NY mom.
I can only wear my contacts a couple of times a week, and my eyes are so dry I see double with one eye closed.
I should mention that I am lazy about wearing contacts and only use them a couple of days a week. I don’t know how they would work if I were to wear them every day.
Until I developed dry eyes, I wore hard (gas-permeable) lenses every day, all day. I had an old pair of glasses somewhere but usually didn’t even know where they were. I was always comfortable in hard contacts.
VeryHappy - as arabrab said - the Thermalon compress helps your eyes secrete the oil that holds in the tears and keeps your eyes most. Some people have dry eyes because they do not make enough tears. Some people (me) have sufficient tears - but the oil glands are not working well. Without the oil layer - the tears evaporate and the eyes dry out. It has been very helpful.
I am ridiculously nearsighted - -17 in one eye and -19 in the other - and have custom ordered contacts - none of the typical soft lenses come in my strength. I am wearing multifocal lenses now - use reading glasses - and am doing well - better than the past few years. I no longer stress about my eyes and my vision daily - quite an improvement in my quality of life.
Funny I’ve been a member of this site for so long. I’m looking up information about dry eye and I never thought I’d come across CC. Glad others are having issues my symptoms are really bugging me. Over the last few months my eyes have really started burning, feeling irritated and tired. I almost feel like my eye sight is going bye bye. I spend alot of time in front of the computer at night doing research so I can only imagine what the screen is doing to my eyes. I never knew the first thing about Dry Eye until a family friend said they had it chronic. I would prefer not to take a drug but rather something natural. I was looking up some information about Restasis but it doesn’t sound that great.
Salmon or fish oil taken orally by capsule MAY be helpful or putting temporary plugs in your tear ducts. I re-evaluated the medications I was taking and (with doctor’s consent) reduced one which had dry eyes as possible side effect from daily to 3x/week, which greatly reduced eye dryness.
Thanks I’ve been reading up on that. This page has some helpful info on fish oils.
http://www.whatisdryeye.com/omega-3-fish-oils-a-good-match/
I’m going to start taking some was reading about a liquid version by Carlson that absorbs better than gels.