“Going to an eye doctor, a new dry eye guy. I’m very hopeful!!”
Let me know what you find out. I have the worst dry eyes and so far nothing has helped except putting in Genteal Gel which helps some.
“Let me know what you find out. I have the worst dry eyes and so far nothing has helped except putting in Genteal Gel which helps some.”
He was young, well everybody is these days. But he seemed quite knowledgeable, and knew what he was looking at when he saw my glance. That’s what’s important! That he can judge Improvement. He has an IPL machine which is what helps me, since I have ocular rosacea. So I’m very grateful not to have to drive 5 hours! I’ll have two or three more sessions and see if I have improvement.
The problem these days is that insurance won’t cover most of dry eye treatments. And they are expensive! And pretty much experimental at this point. The doctors can’t say what will help anybody, they just throw different things at us and see what works. And that is costly, for us!
There are a couple of eye drops on the market that help you produce the aqueous tears. Then there’s the various machines that help with myobium gland dysfunction. That’s the part of the tear that has the oil in it. Without the oil the aqueous tears evaporate too quick. So first the doctor has to figure out what kind you have.
I might switch to a different kind of eye drop, the kind that helps the aqueous gland. It has a better name than that but I can’t remember at the moment. If I do switch I’ll have some boxes of the other kind and I can send them to you.