My eye dryness seems to be in the lower quadrant of my eye. Like the bottom inside of my eye and lower lids are dry and itchy? Does that seem to be everyone else's experience? I can tell the whole eye is dry but the bottom feels the worst!
Hi Wal,
Im no expert on the matter and my eyes are just dry all over but I did go for a check up the other day(my first one) and the doctor told me I had small scratches down the bottom of my eyes(under my eyelids) and with dry eyes thats where they start. It could have something to do with that?
GgcJap
Mine are dry all over too but the skin around them isn't dry, peeling or swollen looking and they aren't bloodshot. They look normal but just feel very tight, as if a band is tightening all around the edges. I can't tell where the dryness starts but I know it's a different kind of dryness to what I experienced when I was younger - which was more like blepharitis and conjunctivitis combined with eczema, than the tight stuff I have now. I think that mine might be because of small fibre neuropathy which includes cranial neuropathy. This apparently also causes dry eyes and would explain why it feels bad looks different to the sticky dry eye I suffered as a child and younger woman.
My eyes are dry all over, but the white part between my iris and nose feels the worst, especially my left eye.
Optometrist told me recently the lower part of my eye is driest, like lemon skins, the upper part smoother like orange skins, left eye is driest.
Forget where, just get the tears flowing please lol
Lotus1
My whole eye is dry, but there are different reasons for dry eye in Sjogrens. Sometimes the issue is not enough tear production, sometimes the tear film that covers your eye decreases (so tears don't have anything to hold onto).