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Texas Proud |
I don't have dry eyes but I've been having bouts of eyelid styes. My doctor recommended the same treatment of warm compresses but I found that warm moist towels don't stay warm near long enough. What I found that works best for me is a old sock filled with a cup or so of rice tied off and heated in the microwave. The rice seems to absorb moisture from the air when left out and holds the heat much much longer. NRA Life Patron | |||
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The SIGforum "Official Eye Doc" suggested that I discuss Restasis with a local ophthalmologist. I did, it was prescribed, it works. One drop in each eye, twice a day. Downside: that stuff ain't cheap, even with Rx insurance. It comes in single-use applicator thingies, instructions say to use once and discard, so two little vials / day. My pharmacist is a good guy and looks out for me. He said that there is no reason to discard the vial after the first use, there is plenty of "juice" in there for the second use in a day. That extends the 90-day prescription to 180 days and cuts the cost in half. הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Looks like maybe we have two, now
Which I will do. Along with any alternatives. Thanks for the feedback, everybody! "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Web Clavin Extraordinaire |
How long are you microwaving the rice sock? I always had to go back and rewarm the damp compress. ---------------------------- Chuck Norris put the laughter in "manslaughter" Educating the youth of America, one declension at a time. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
Call him ~ gonna get a lot better advice that here...just sayin' | |||
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FYI if you have dry eyes DO NOT get lasik as it will only get worse if you are ever thinking about it in the future. I have slight dry eyes and when I went to 3 different doctors for laser surgery consultation, NONE of them performed any tests for dry eyes or asked me about it. The 4th doctor I went to, tested for it and also did some other tests like test the thickness of my cornea, and asked me some questions. He them told me I was NOT a good candidate for lasik because of my dry eyes. He told me that the lasik procedure when cutting the flap in your cornea will also cut the nerve endings that your eyes use to detect dry eyes. With it cut it will have a harder time detecting it and will be worse for the person after the surgery procedure. This is why many people that have lasik have complain of having worse dry eye problems. The other item was that I still do sports such as martial arts. He said that with lasik, there is still a chance the flap will pop off and that this is very painful. This is why at the time which was 15 years ago, the military did not perform or allow lasik surgery as it can pop out. He offered instead to have Supralase which is a form of PRK laser surgery, which is what I ended up having performed. For my dry eyes I use some over the counter drops once or twice daily. Thanks for reading and I hope this helps. God Bless !!! "Always legally conceal carry. At the right place and time, one person can make a positive difference." | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
I knew this, but thanks for the warning nonetheless! Even were this not a potential problem: I am exceedingly averse to bits of me being cut-upon for any reason other than absolute necessity. Thus, though I'm obliged to wear progressive tri-focals, I have never even remotely considered LASIK eye surgery. My ophthalmologist suggested the aberrations I'm seeing around brightly-lit things (red dot optics, fiber-optic front sights) was not due to astigmatism, but cataracts. She'll be doing a specific test for this the next time I visit. Since the only way to correct for cataracts is cataract surgery, I may opt for that.
Hmmm... Gets good ratings. Perhaps I'll give it a try. Thanks! "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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Texas Proud |
Around 45 seconds is about right depending on the amount of rice. If it's to hot just work the rice around until it cools a bit. The warmth will last much longer than a warm moist towel. That's the problem I was having as well. NRA Life Patron | |||
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FDA Approves First Nasal Spray for Dry Eye The first nasal spray to treat dry eye disease has won approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Sprayed twice daily into the nostrils, 0.03-mg varenicline solution (Tyrvaya) improves signs and symptoms of dry eye disease. It provides an alternative to the immunomodulators currently available as prescription treatments, according to Marian Macsai, MD, chief medical officer for the drug's maker, Oyster Point Pharma. "We're super excited to bring a new treatment for dry eye disease to patients and eye care practitioners," she told Medscape Medical News. The company plans to make the drug available to wholesalers in November in cartons containing two multidose nasal spray bottles. Each bottle supplies treatment for 15 days. Samples will be made available to eye care practitioners. The company is working with payers on reimbursement codes and will supply the drug for $10 or less to patients who are not insured, said Macsai. Varenicline can be prescribed for anyone with dry eye disease who has not gotten relief from artificial tears or who needs to use artificial tears "more than three or four times a day," she said. "In our pivotal trials, we enrolled patients with mild, moderate, and severe disease," said Macsai. "And in each subgroup, we reached statistical significance. So with this new route of administration and a new mechanism of action, I'm hopeful that this will provide relief to many of the dry eye patients out there that are currently suffering." The causes of dry eye disease are multifactorial, and it can prove difficult to treat. Varenicline appears to work by stimulating the trigeminal nerve, causing natural tears to form. Marketed as the oral drug Chantix by Pfizer, varenicline is prescribed to reduce cigarette cravings. Administered as a nasal spray for dry eye, much less of it enters the bloodstream, according to Michael Raizman , MD, an associate professor of ophthalmology at Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, who was an investigator in the phase 3 ONSET-2 trial of the drug. The spray acts in as little as 14 days, rather than the 3–6 months required for prescription immunomodulators, and it doesn't irritate the eyes, he said. In the ONSET-2 trial, basal tear production and symptoms were assessed. Schirmer test scores increased by ≥10 mm for 47% of the patients treated with varenicline, vs 28% of patients treated with placebo. The mean change from baseline in Eye Dryness Score at week 4 was -10.3 mm for varenicline-treated patients, compared to -7.4 mm for vehicle-treated patients. The difference was not statistically significant. However, that test was disrupted by COVID-19 precautions, Macsai said. The phase 2b ONSET-1 trial showed a statistically significant advantage in Eye Dryness Score for patients treated with varenicline in comparison with those treated with placebo. Almost everyone who took varenicline sneezed, but only about 12% experienced any ocular adverse events, which was similar to the placebo group. No one reported burning or stinging in the eyes. A few patients coughed or felt throat or nose irritation. In the group that received 1.2 mg/mL, eight people discontinued the drug because of adverse reactions, compared to five in the group that received 0.6 mg/mL and four in the placebo group. "This approval is exciting for the ophthalmic community, as it gives us a new therapeutic agent that can be used alone or in combination with existing therapies to treat individuals who fall under the umbrella term 'dry eye,' " said Anat Galor, MD, MSPH, clinical spokesperson for the American Academy of Ophthalmology and associate professor at University of Miami, in Florida. Some idea of what to expect from Tyrvaya comes from TrueTear, a device made by Allergan that caused tearing by electrically stimulating the anterior ethmoidal nerve through the nasal passage. It provided benefit to some patients who had not gotten relief through medication, but was expensive and was eventually discontinued, Galor said. A new device, the iTear100, from Olympic Ophthalmics, stimulates the anterior ethnoidal nerve through the side of the nose. It received FDA clearance last year. ONSET-2 was funded by Oyster Point Pharma. Macsai is an employee of Oyster Point. Raizman is a consultant to Oyster Point Pharma. Galor reported no relevant financial relationships. Laird Harrison writes about science, health, and culture. His work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, and online publications. He is at work on a novel about alternate realities in physics. Harrison teaches writing at the Writers Grotto. Visit him at lairdharrison.com or follow him on Twitter: @LairdH. link: https://www.medscape.com/viewa...11216_MSCPEDIT_TEMP2 | |||
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Nullus Anxietas |
Thanks, ZSMICHAEL. I will ask my ophthalmologist about this upon my next visit. "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system,,,, but too early to shoot the bastards." -- Claire Wolfe "If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living." -- Seneca the Younger, Roman Stoic philosopher | |||
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ophthalmologist recommended i use refresh 4-5x's/day! | |||
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Lucky to be Irish |
I asked my eye doctor the same question. He suggested Systane and washing the area around my eyes including across the eye lashes with Johnson’s baby shampoo to wash out accumulated oil in the eyelid glands. | |||
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If you have to have cataract surgery performed, you may want to pay the extra and get the lenses to correct your vision. God Bless !!!
"Always legally conceal carry. At the right place and time, one person can make a positive difference." | |||
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Watch that "A 4 minute Chevy commercial that may hit you in the feels..." posted. Did it for me. | |||
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The Ice Cream Man |
+1 for heading to a doc, quick, with, eyes. | |||
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Only the strong survive |
Top Maqui Berry Benefits For Eye Health Published: October 2021 | Updated: November 2021 If you’re reading this on a computer screen, odds are that you’ve sat back and rubbed your eyes at least once before. Eye fatigue happens to the best of us—and that discomfort can get even worse if you’re one of millions who wear contacts, glasses, or have even had corrective surgery. You most likely know about eye drops for dry eyes, but did you know there’s a fruit extract that can help? Let’s take a look at maqui berry! What is maqui berry used for? Maqui berries come from Chile in South America. The Latin name is Aristotelia chilensis. There is a slight chance you’ve heard of them by another name: Chilean wineberry. No matter what it’s called, this superfood (well, it’s technically a super-fruit) is packed with anthocyanidins called delphinidins, plus a powerful antioxidant called ellagic acid. It’s these beneficial compounds that scientists think are responsible for maqui’s value to ocular health and eye comfort. In pre-clinical models, orally administered maqui berry extract helped encourage tear production—without eye drops. How does maqui berry work? Researchers in Japan decided to evaluate two of the major anthocyanidins in maqui berry extract, to determine how well they can protect the delicate photoreceptor cells in the back of your eye. To do so, they exposed those same types of cells to visible light. Light can cause oxidative stress, which can damage the cells in your eye. The researchers found that these maqui berry compounds helped protect photoreceptors in the eye from oxidative stress-related damage induced by visible light. So we know that maqui berry extract helps with oxidative stress and eye health inside your eye. But what’s that got to do with the eye surface? Eye discomfort and dry eyes is a very common experience. One of the reasons for it is that your eye (for whatever reason) doesn’t make enough lacrimal fluid—what you and I know as “tears.” This is important because research suggests that maqui berry encourages increased tear production. What are tears, anyway? Tears might feel like water, but they’re much more complex than that: tears consist of a clear fluid that is released between your eye and its protective eyelid. Your lacrimal gland releases lacrimal fluid (tears) that keep your eye moisturized and comfortable. Learn more about Eye Health “Fix” dry eyes—without the drops It’s important to note that maqui berry extract doesn’t make you cry like say, cutting an onion does. Instead, the compounds in maqui berry promote healthy levels of lacrimal fluid, which in turn makes it easier for your body to keep your eye well-lubricated and comfortable. There’s another angle here: it’s theorized that certain kinds of oxidative stress can destabilize the thin tear film that covers your eyes at all times. This suggests that maqui’s potent antioxidant abilities may play a role in its effectiveness at relieving dry eye discomfort. That effectiveness isn’t an urban legend, either: in a pilot clinical trial, 13 healthy volunteers with moderately dry eyes took 60 mg of a maqui berry extract. Compared to the placebo group, the people taking the maqui berry extract had significantly improved tear fluid volume and relief from dry-eye. Why do onions make you cry? While it might seem unrelated to maqui berry, there’s a chemical reason that onions make us cry…and it has to do with those same tear-producing glands that maqui berry comforts. Here’s how it works: When you cut an onion, it releases an unstable enzyme called lachrymatory-factor synthase is released into the air. That same synthase enzyme converts its own onion amino acids into sulfenic acid, which is unstable, so it quickly becomes syn-propanethial-S-oxide and is released into the kitchen. When this aerosol-onion-oxide-acid (note: not a technical term) touches our eyeballs, it stimulates the lachrymal glands that create tears. Voila! Now you’re crying. Let’s get back to maqui. Does maqui berry help with eye fatigue? Dry eyes, tired eyes, itchy eyes: anyone who’s suffered from one knows that the other two are very closely related. Maqui berry can also help relieve eye fatigue. In a clinical trial of 74 participants, 60 mg of maqui berry extract daily for 4 weeks encouraged healthy tear production as well as offered relief for tired, uncomfortable eyes. When is the best time to consume maqui berry extract? Bioavailability research has found that it takes about one to two hours for the compounds in maqui berry extract to reach maximum concentrations in your bloodstream. Which maqui berry extract should I choose? We know that it’s the delphinidins that give maqui berry extract its ability to promote eye health, relieve general eye fatigue, and encourage healthy eye lubrication and tear production from within. So look for a maqui berry extract that’s concentrated to give you the most of these antioxidants. And you’re going to want one that delivers the same amount, every time: a process that is called standardization. In conclusion, maqui berry extract has antioxidant benefits, which help protect the delicate cells of your eye from oxidative stress. https://www.lifeextension.com/...maqui-berry-dry-eyes 41 | |||
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Saluki |
This is/was my problem. Warm compress and massaging eyelids does wonders. Roughly once a week now. ----------The weather is here I wish you were beautiful---------- | |||
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