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Dry eye

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isaxx · 31/01/2023 17:30

Hello,

Does anyone suffer from this? I can't work out why I have suddenly been struck down with an extremely dry right eye (using eye drops daily for the past 10 days, wake up with a blurry eye until I blink a lot, with the sensation of my eyelid being stuck to my eyeball until I put in eye drops to make it loosen up, and with soreness).

I will try to book an eye examination at an optician. In the meantime though, I wonder if this could be perimenopause related (I am 48). Has anyone experienced a connection? Or, could it be a post viral thing (Had a terrible bout of flu over X-mas and New year - only recovered around mid January). Or, could it be a post covid vaccine side effect? (Got my booster 10 days ago, so a bit of a coincidence there, yet I would have expected side effects to have subsided by now...)

Anyway, just looking for shared experiences. In fact, does this sound like 'dry eye'? Or, could it be something else? No redness, the eye looks completely normal but does not feel normal at all (as described above).

OP posts:
mamavl · 31/01/2023 17:35

isaxx · 31/01/2023 17:30

Hello,

Does anyone suffer from this? I can't work out why I have suddenly been struck down with an extremely dry right eye (using eye drops daily for the past 10 days, wake up with a blurry eye until I blink a lot, with the sensation of my eyelid being stuck to my eyeball until I put in eye drops to make it loosen up, and with soreness).

I will try to book an eye examination at an optician. In the meantime though, I wonder if this could be perimenopause related (I am 48). Has anyone experienced a connection? Or, could it be a post viral thing (Had a terrible bout of flu over X-mas and New year - only recovered around mid January). Or, could it be a post covid vaccine side effect? (Got my booster 10 days ago, so a bit of a coincidence there, yet I would have expected side effects to have subsided by now...)

Anyway, just looking for shared experiences. In fact, does this sound like 'dry eye'? Or, could it be something else? No redness, the eye looks completely normal but does not feel normal at all (as described above).

Could be dry eyes... could be something else.

Sjogren's Syndrome typically features dry eyes and a dry mouth (among other things). Worth checking with GP. Do you have any other symptoms?

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