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How did you get dry eye disease? How has it affected your life? Share your story here.

Share encouraging experiences, progress reports and stories of physical and emotional healing!

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See also: The Dry Eye Digest for dry eye related newsclips.

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PATIENTS, post your GOOD experiences with eye doctors treating your dry eyes.

Both PATIENTS and DOCTORS may post here. Use this forum to post names of doctors who are providing highly specialized, difficult-to-find treatments or products such as autologous serum eyedrops.

Swap tips here about good deals on dry eye products and new products you find. ONLY COMMUNITY MEMBERS WITH A PARTICIPATION HISTORY may post here. See also Dry Eye Yellow Pages for product ideas.

Doctors, researchers, reps and other medical or industry users: Please take a moment to introduce yourself here before starting to post in the Open Forum (below). Thanks!

Free-form discussion, Q&A etc. open to all users.

Post here questions relating to the diagnosis and treatment of dry eye syndrome and related conditions. Dr. Latkany is an internationally known dry eye specialist in New York and author of the immensely popular book "The Dry Eye Remedy".

Post here questions about Omega 3s and 6s and other nutritional supplement topics related to dry eye.

Dr. Holly is an internationally recognized expert who has done pioneering research in lacrimal and tear film physiology since 1968. Forum is now read-only archive.

Want to look up ingredients and preservatives? Check out the Lubricants reference list.

Related links: Plugs guide in the Dry Eye Encyclopedia and Plugs directory in the Dry Eye Yellow Pages.

For product ideas check out: Lidscrubs and Warm compresses

Any specialized in-office treatments for improving meibomian gland function such as IPL and proprietary probing techniques.

Browse moisture chamber eyewear in our shop.

Check out Tranquileyes hydrating goggles and dry eye friendly sleep masks.

For more information see also Boston Foundation for Sight.

Therapeutic ("bandage lens") use of soft contacts; hybrid soft+gas perm lenses

RCE from injuries, from surgeries, from ABMD (aka EBMD, aka MDFD) and from other corneal dystrophies

Please see www.sjogrensworld.org for broader discussions about Sjogrens Syndrome.

Drugs connected to dry eye disease.

See also the Eyewear (Night) forum for discussions about products to prevent exposure at night.

When ophthalmic products contribute to or cause dry eye symptoms.

What dry eye pain is like, and what we do to manage it