Dry eyes/ corneal erosion anyone?

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Anyone in the know about these please?

Is it punctate epithelial erosions of the cornea due to dryness? If so, to what degree and what do you want to know?

If your cornea has broken down then you will get a boring type pain in the eye. You will be sensitive to light and will feel that something is wrong.

A dry cornea will be relieved with some lubrication gel and something a bit more oily for night time use - lacrilube is what I used to use.

Thank you for your replies, I was told by my optician after suffering 18 months or so of painful eyes in the night that my corneas are quite eroded. He gave me some lacrilube for night and some Blink tear gel for the daytime.

However I am finding that the Lacrilube is making it worse as now every morning I wake up and it's painful, whereas before it was 3/4 times a week.

Do you know of a good alternative to the Lacrilube please. I think tonight I will try just the Blink Gel.

I am so new to this and there's not a lot of info I can find online, apart from recurring corneal erosion and how it's ruined people's lives!

Lacrilube is quite thick (and smeary) which is why it is usually only used overnight. I have dryish eyes and use Hylo tears (for day and overnight). It is not as thick as lacrilube, so may not be long lasting enough for you, (especially if you do not fully close your eyes at night) but is easy to use (even in the dark) so I keep it by the bed. I didn't get on with lacrilube because of sensitivity to lanolin - one of the ingredients. It may be a case of finding what works for you, with help from your practitioners.

Lacrilube is normally given at night as it lasts all night,unlike drops.

Really if the treatment is not working I would ring the optician and explain your symptoms are worse with the lacrilube and see if you need a retest to recheck your corneas. Only they can see how badly your cornea is affected and whether you need further referral to the hospital eye clinic.

Alot of dry eyes are not from insufficient tears,but due to the tears evaporating too quickly from the surface of the eyes. An ophthalmologist has brought out a product the eye bag to help with this along with eye wipes. Perhaps check with your optician if this would help in your case.

Thank you, I spoke with a pharmacist and they gave me Blink Ultra Plus which is a gel and it seems to do the trick! Fingers crossed it stays that way