What is your diagnosis (or diagnoses if you have more than one)?
MGD/possibly Sjogrens
How long have you had it?
4 years
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?
It's constant worry and coping and vigilance. It's incredibly fatiguing to pretend to participate in life.
What has helped you the most?
Stopping heat treatments. For the first 2 years I was religious with Bruder mask, etc. Made my eyes so much worse. My inflammation kept getting worse and worse. I has a hunch to stop and followed it. My eyes are better now. Blinking exercises have helped a lot. And I use intermittent fasting to try to positively impact my inflammation.