I recommend seeing an ophthalmologist specializing in dry eye disease. They have tests for measuring tear breakup time (TBUT) and imaging equipment for viewing meibomian glands, which are specialized sebum glands that coat the eye surface in oil to form the tear film. Fish oil helps for that reason - Omega-3s improve sebum quality.
Personally I use preservative-free eye drops with hyaluronic acid [1] and they help out tremendously. I also use a heated dry eye mask, but I don't know if that helps with Lasik cases.
But it's best to try to treat it sooner rather than later. I ended up seeing my ophthalmologist in the first place because my cornea got damaged and infected, and he said that the eye dryness could have been a contributing factor.
I recommend everyone an EU brand called Optase[1] for their suite of dry eye drops and related products! Best preservative free eyedrops I've tried (I've tried everything extensively) and its in a bottle! :D
They have a MGD Drop (red packaging) which is liquid/oily and an Intense drop (purple packaging) that is nice and thick.
You can find them rarely at retail pharmacies as they are still expanding in the US but you can order them on Amazon.
I got SMILE instead of LASIK for that exact reason (avoiding dry eye), and have perfect vision with moist eyes. Highly recommend avoiding LASIK if you qualify for newer procedures.
(I'm interested because my sister has just had eye surgery and while she is still adjusting to her new vision, she said something about potential dryness)
I had terrible dry eye. I was treated for other medical problems which prescribed anastrozole and now I'm on TRT. My dry eye is now much better and I can feel it come back with the end of the TRT cycle. Back when I started these meds I wasn't expecting this and the only papers I found were about females. My doc didn't have a good explanation for the side effect.
Tangent: I appreciate that the only glancing mention of the ethical weirdness in harvesting skin from one animal to heal surface injuries on other animals is in the beautifully crafted teaser graphic.
(To be clear, this is nothing like skinning beavers — it's tilapia after all, one of the most heavily consumed fish on the planet, skin and all. But the thought tickled the brain for a moment)
> (To be clear, this is nothing like skinning beavers — it's tilapia after all, one of the most heavily consumed fish on the planet, skin and all. But the thought tickled the brain for a moment)
I just bought a new bottle of Miracle Ointment™ (3.5 grams , $30) because, after 4 months of peace, my cornea decided to rip itself open again last night. Sigh. This is after 6 months of diligent application before bed every night, in order to finally heal a recurrent erosion stretching back 8ish years before.
Can't afford it. And that's what I use (the ointment; the drops are worse than useless). They say 2 weeks or whatever, but you need months without a recurrence.
Some guy will put videos of a patient getting lasik/*, records all the movements of the surgeon as input, shove it into a transformer model and there will be machines which do it 10x better than humans in 5 years. Might as well wait
Yeah... For clinical trials they need dogs that are healthy with consistent injuries. The only way to get that in the quantity is they need is to cause the injuries.
Where I went to college, there was a lab with 3,000 dogs in it. All of them were being used for scientific study. They couldn’t even let them outside because they didn’t know if the dogs would get sick (“contaminated”) and ruin the study. The dogs have been bred to have a heart defect. They were all euthanized at various stages to see how the defect was progressing. Many dogs did’t even have the defect but were put down and dissected anyway.
Also makes me sad to think about a 80 billion (yes you read that right) animals killed each year for food but we don't like to talk about it because thats outside our overton window.
