Woke up today with really dry eyes. Never really had this problem before. My eyes feel very sticky and i have a slight discharge. Every time i blink my eyes go blurry. Went to my chemist and got some Hypromellose, so hope this helps. They feel really yucky.
Anne
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Hello Anne,
Hope the hypromellose is soothing.
If your eyes are sticky and you have some discharge they may be infected. If you wear lenses you should probably avoid wearing them for a couple of days until you see what's going on with your eyes. If you have an infection, you don't want to keep passing it back and forth between the eye and the lens.
I suffer rather a lot with dry eye and dried out patches on the cornea.
If this carries on for more than a few days you'd best see a doctor (or preferably visit your nearest eye department and get the eye nurses to take a look first. I generally find that they know their stuff and are brilliant at swabbing the insides of eyelids-you hardly know they've done it.)
Take care and let us know how it goes.
Hope the hypromellose is soothing.
If your eyes are sticky and you have some discharge they may be infected. If you wear lenses you should probably avoid wearing them for a couple of days until you see what's going on with your eyes. If you have an infection, you don't want to keep passing it back and forth between the eye and the lens.
I suffer rather a lot with dry eye and dried out patches on the cornea.
If this carries on for more than a few days you'd best see a doctor (or preferably visit your nearest eye department and get the eye nurses to take a look first. I generally find that they know their stuff and are brilliant at swabbing the insides of eyelids-you hardly know they've done it.)
Take care and let us know how it goes.
Keep looking for rainbows.
but they do not look red or bloodshot (well no more than usual).
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GarethB
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Anne,
When I get dry eyes, it is usually accompanied by a jelly like goo that builds up in the corner of my eye on the tear duct.
This we ahve discoverd is down to my poor tear production and the fatty lubricating part of the tears not dispersing in the saline tears. Whn this goo moves I get blurred vision and as I blink some more and make my eyes water it clears again.
Systane fixes it for me and I think you have a similar type of eye drop from the pharmacist.
If it does persist, get yourself down the docs to get a proper diagnoses.
When I get dry eyes, it is usually accompanied by a jelly like goo that builds up in the corner of my eye on the tear duct.
This we ahve discoverd is down to my poor tear production and the fatty lubricating part of the tears not dispersing in the saline tears. Whn this goo moves I get blurred vision and as I blink some more and make my eyes water it clears again.
Systane fixes it for me and I think you have a similar type of eye drop from the pharmacist.
If it does persist, get yourself down the docs to get a proper diagnoses.
Gareth
Very strange.
I experianced a similar goo coming from my left about 12 months ago so went to doctor and they said it was exma gave me some steroid cream but that did not help, so I went to a local eye casualty unit they said there was nothing wrong with eye. i was very unhappy with them so then made the 60 mile journey to my own eye specialist and they saw me straight away and said my cornea had got so thin it had split open hence the goo in eye so then we started on the path to a cornea graft in feb this year. best to always get it checked by specialist people you have trust in.
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I could be hay fever - lots of people are complaining it is very bad this year, and some people who don't get hay fever have got it now.
it could even be ragwort.......
This is a very nasty plant, that grows as a weed, spreads like mad, has lots of little yellow flowers and is principally famous for killing horses if they are unfortunate enough to eat it.
Apparently, latest research is showing that it is also very nasty to humans too, mainly through the pollen from those yellow flowers. And it is getting everywhere these last few years.
Rosemary
it could even be ragwort.......
This is a very nasty plant, that grows as a weed, spreads like mad, has lots of little yellow flowers and is principally famous for killing horses if they are unfortunate enough to eat it.
Apparently, latest research is showing that it is also very nasty to humans too, mainly through the pollen from those yellow flowers. And it is getting everywhere these last few years.
Rosemary
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