What is your diagnosis (or diagnoses if you have more than one)?
Meibomian gland disease
How long have you had it?
Since 2008
What do you wish more people understood about dry eye (or eye pain if that's your main issue) and how it affects people's lives?
How debilitating it is and how difficult it is to life live. Avoiding air flow, smoke, handling medications that you need to take but affect the lacrimal glands. How hormones affect the meibomian glands, such as testosterone for women
What has helped you the most?
A great eye doctor who actually examines the meibomian glands and express them, rather than here are some eye drops not get out of my office. Since they do not make any money off of you with eye drops you are not worth their time. It took me 2 years and 10 eye doctors before I had relief. Bio identical hormones, rice heat packs, eye drops such as optase hyloforte, purilens mini eye drops, Fortifeye fish oil capsules, and Hydroeye capsules. IPL treatment that helps to liquify blocked meibomian glands.
Are there any dry eye resources you'd like to recommend?
Dr Brown at Cabarrus eye center in Concorde, NC. She is the only one out of ten eye doctors and two debilitating years actually expressed my meibomian glands. IPL treatment that helps to liquify blocked meibomian glands and then continue with heated rice packs,