Good morning @surfing. I am replying to your post to Rachel Whinney. She has taken a break from Connect and we wish her well and hope for her return.

I am not an expert on eyes, except for 1 condition and that is the dry eye which is severely impacted by neuropathy and a life of living in dry climates at an altitude over 5000 feet. My ophthalmologist and his father were my clinicians for more than 30 years. They followed the course of my affliction.

As a shared decision-making team, we have tried everything including the roller inside the eyelid because the lacrimal oil in the glands was drying up very quickly. I suffered through two years of daily self-treatment so that my eyes had enough moisture to qualify for the cataract surgeries. I have used drops and drops and drops and still use Xiidra.

Finally, my clinician just sank down in his chair after an examination and said, "you need to live in a rain forest, not on top of a mountain with extremely low humidity." The cells in my cornea were just drying up leading to the visual changes like you experienced. Here is what I chose to do........I moved to Minnesota....where everything is flat and humidity is usually in the 50% range. I had been struggling with humidity as low as 9%.

As you might guess.....I no longer hover near the refrigerator where I keep the preservative-free medications. So my response to you is to assess your environment. Do what you can to care for your eyes. Find someone who is super resourceful.

That might mean a visit to a medical institution like Mayo Clinic. Have you thought about that? I am going to ask @johnbishop to send you the application process information. Please consider applying. And please take care of those eyes....we can't just replace them with new ones.

May you be free of suffering and the causes of suffering.
Chris

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