What is your diagnosis (or diagnoses if you have more than one)?
Graves Disease, Graves' ophthalmopathy
How long have you had it?
14 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?
That it is different from the occasional dry eyes everyone gets, it is chronic every day kind of thing that requires drops multiple times a day, ointment every night, goggles at night, it literally changes your life.
What has helped you the most?
honestly, getting orbital decompression surgery and strabismus surgery, one more surgery to go! That and being very diligent about putting drops and ointment in.
Are there any dry eye resources you'd like to recommend?
Dry Eye Foundation has so much information-my first place to go! Mayo clinic in Rochester, MN has great doctors and resources also.