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Dry eyes.

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Do you guys suffer from dry eyes. Mine seem to dry out mostly at night time.
 
This sounds silly but do you sleep with your eyes open slightly? Obviously you’d have to get someone to check, but it can cause dry eyes.
 
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It's hardly ever when I wake tho, more so nearing bedtime.
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Could it be screen use? I don’t get dry eyes but I get tired and weird feeling eyes if I spend too long on my iPad.

Also, as you’re fairly recently diagnosed, it might be that your eyesight is still adjusting and so your eyes tire more easily?
 
Do you eyes, once you actually go and get to bed, start watering before you fall asleep?
 
Yes i get this. Terribly dry overnight and when i wake but fine in the day. Gp has prescribed Hylo Forte intense moisturising drop which i use if i wake in the night or in the morning before i rise as eyes so dry and hard to open but fine once i have opened them for a while and drops relieve instantly for a while. My eyes get very heavy late at night before bed but not dry.
 
Yeah - so does Optrex. Certainly available off the shelf in Tesco so presumably in shedloads of other places too. The spray one - no fiddling about with an eyebath and tipping shedloads of it down the drain and every bit as soothing as ever,
 
Optrex only helped for very short time for me and spray ones just did nothing very much at all and were expensive.. I need intense moisturising drops which is the Hylo Forte the Doc prescribed and on prescription. I only started getting this when started taking Metformin and Levothyroxin so i think connected but doc just says my age which is strange a s i have been through the menopause and out the other side with no problems.
 
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I use a CPAP machine and have a bottle of the Optrex spray on hand for the mornings I wake up with dry eyes - it is the result of an air leak blowing air, but the spray seems to sort it out quickly enough.
 
I find an eye bath (either just salty water, of one of the supermarket ones) really helps sometimes when my eyes are feeling tired.

Have you had your eyes checked recently? Do you need glasses and might your prescription have changed?

Blocked tear ducts maybe? Massage with soapy water in the shower and ‘think blink’ what what my late wife was advised to do at one point.
 
I have suffered terribly with my left eye drying out at night. There's an underlying condition called meibomian gland dysfunction (which I have) which affects the lipid layer in your tear film and let's the moisture evaporate.

Diabetes doesn't cause MGD but according to Dr Google, but diabetics are known to get worse symptoms. Best lubricant I have tried is Systane Ultra, but for many years I was reliant on a paraffin ointment at night, either Lacrilube or Vita Pos.

Interestingly, when I was diagnosed with diabetes and got my glucose under control, my severe symptoms all but disappeared.
 
i suffer with allergies so part of that means i get dry eyes now and again so use optrex which seems to work a treat.

quite a good few years ago while living at another address i started getting terrible problems with my eyes drying up to the point of getting pain so went off to the opticians who sent me to the hospital they couldn't seem to find a cause but i did find the cause as i lived just across from a swimming baths never thought for one moment what it might of been chucking out through the vents.

when i moved away the dry eye problem settled down apart from the allergy problem now and again.

as for diabetes i did notice a lot of blurring but once on meds for a while that has settled down nicely.
 
I can lend you a few of my tears, whenever I go out into the cold air my eyes stream with tears and my nose then runs. I have gone through so many packs of tissues I'm keeping Mr Kleenex in business.
There is something called blepharitis which results in dry eyes, my OH often uses an eye mask at night if he has this which helps.
 
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