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Does anybody experience any of these symptoms with their severe dry eyes/blepharitis?

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cheez95980
cheez95980

These are some weird symptoms that I feel are not common with people who have dry eyes or blepharitis. I have both dry eyes and blepharitis. Dont know if trichiasis caused blepharitis or blepharitis caused trichiasis.

Any thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated!

Symptoms:

1) Only experience discomfort and eye irritation in one eye at a time and they switch off throughout the day. Example: morning left eye for 4 hours, then right eye for 3 hours, then left eye for the rest of the day. It for some reason, is never irritating on both eyes at the same time. 

2)Foreign sensation feeling is right below eyebrows, not right above eyelashes. 

For my eyes, the only symptom I really feel is foreign sensation thus leading to discomfort and irritation throughout the day. No swelling or other things.

I am curious, I am getting surgery to remove my ingrown eyelashes next week. Could this fix my problem or do you believe that blepharitis could still fully exist and that it will not help at all. The oph doctor said that it would help but I want to know anybody who has experience with trichiasis.

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  • clivealive
    clivealive cheez95980

    Posted

    I think I was told that once you have got blepharitis it never really goes away.

    Have you tried applying a warm flannel or heated eyepad for five minutes or rubbing closed eyelids with the knuckle of your index finger outwards from your nose - five times for each lid? I guess though that this may not be a good idea with your ingrowing lashes.

    I wish you well

  • jane75220
    jane75220 cheez95980

    Posted

    Have you been checked for concretions of the  eyes?

    ​Concretions are common in dry eyes and give rise to a foreign body, frittiness of the eyes. It may account for the varying sensations as you may have a combination of blepharitis and dry eyes with concretions. Concretions can easily be removed under the slit lamp. The procedure is painless and gives instant relief. It is important that the eye dr inverts and inspects the upper eyelid so  as not to miss any concretions. Best to google this as lengthy  explantion etc. 

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