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by arcticfox 2405 days ago
> For anyone reading this who manages their dry eye with eye drops, please do some reading or see a specialist

Good advice to check, of course, but my friend that has chronic dry eye from Lasik was basically told it's a lifetime of drops for her now.
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raverbashing 2405 days ago
It might very well be "just drops", but it seems knowledge of management of dry eyes is not so widespread

See this https://www.reddit.com/r/lasik/comments/cfxewr/how_to_fix_dr...

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iskippedlegday0 2405 days ago
How many quality opinions did your friend get? I also know people with DED and from my experience not all docs understand the disease well. Obviously you know more than I do, but I'm very skeptical that there isn't more to the story than "a lifetime of drops". Also, I hope your friend has tried autologous serum drops.
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foobiekr 2405 days ago
That is a great suggestion IMHO. ASTs are pretty amazing but they're not a cure for everyone.

In the case above, I'm referring to my spouse. Her entire family has this problem - dry eye, frequent / continuous corneal erosions - setting in by their mid-late thirties. These are the people who end up wearing sleeping goggles, ointment, taping their lids shut, etc. It's not a lack of tear production, it's poor corneal basement layer adhesion for some undiagnosed reason and, probably, eyelids drifting open during sleep.

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gdebel 2404 days ago
Ciclosporin 2% eyedrops and/or punctum plugs may be useful. I home she'll get better eventually.
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foobiekr 2403 days ago
she went way past both of those. it was not a fun time getting things compounded.
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