Got Eyes Plugged - Didn't Help. Now what?

[Pegasus47]

Hi Susie:

Ever thought about getting away from eye drops and try an alternative method of stimulating your tear secretion glands?  I use TheraLife Autoimmune Dry Eye formula which also seems to help with dry mouth relief.  Give it a thought.

Pegasus

[Liz D.]

This may be a stupid question, but did you get ALL 4 plugs or just 2?  Some people try to plug just the bottom two puncta and some do get relief.  I personally did not.  I ONLY got some relief when all 4 were plugged.   

Liz D.

[A66eyroad]

I seem to remember that the first time I had plugs placed they used the wrong size on one of my eyes and I didn't get a good result (obviously!). Another time, they didn't put the plug in far enough and it scratched the living daylights out of my eyeball all night long. So my suggestion would be to ask them to check the placement. It should only take a minute, then you could see if the plugs are actually still where they're supposed to be.

[Suzie]

Great ideas everyone, thank you all 

I've been spending alot of time on The Dry Eye Zone website and sheesh! but there's ALOT of great eye info there. I even got a reply to my posting from an opthalmologist.

I've got eye gel and a sleep mask on order from them, and Rebecca Petris - the site's founder - is so generous with her time and advice it's unbelievable. She really cares about fellow dry-eye sufferers and is more concerned about helping than making money. Amazing woman. If you haven't been there, take a look.

My eye doc says that plugs aren't for me right now because I'm not making enough tears to conserve! Any I do make just evaporate right off my eye. I need something that will compensate for the oil I'm not making and the terrible tear quality. I'm hoping the eye stuff I ordered - Oasis Tears Plus - will do the trick. Here's what they say on their website:

Unique Lubricating Formulation
Oasis TEARS Lubricant Eye Drops coat, lubricate, and moisten delicate eye tissue. With each blink of your eye, a special substance in Oasis TEARS combines with the active ingredient, glycerin, to keep tears on the eye surface for a long time. This unique combination coats and recoats the surface of the eye for continued relief of dry, irritated eyes.

Fingers crossed. 

Suzie

[really?]

sometimes the best thing to do is the KISS principle,, KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID,, not that your stupid but I heard that last night,, sometimes we overdo things looking for the right thing,, I was asked if I wanted my eyes plugged,, no thanks,, my luck you would blind me

[Suzie]

Ha, Really! I was rather worried about that, but I actually enjoyed having the temp plugs put in. Weird.

[really?]

glad it worked out for you

[becky]

I also have a lot of problems with my dry eyes.  Especially at night.  I have to be careful how I open my eyes because the lids stick to the cornea and can actually pull off pieces of make splits.  Really hurts.  I also tried punctal plugs - which didn't help and kept going through.  The only thing that seems to help even a little bit is the Restasis - once in the morning and once at night with lots of eye drops in between.  I have ordered a mask from the Dry Eye Zone and can't wait to see if it helps.

Good luck.

[Suzie]

I've ordered a sleep mask from them too, Becky! The one I have now leaps from my head when I'm asleep.

For a few weeks now, I've thought the weather was humid to the point of being swampy outside. Silly me. Turns out my air-con is making the air in my house so dry that the difference in the water content of the air in and out is insane.

I'm going to borrow a humidifier and see if it helps. And I'm probably going to get moisture-chamber glasses with my eye prescription in, to use in the house.

Suzie