So, on to the treatment. At my first visit to the hospital the medics conducted a thorough eye examination - it was very up close and personal - with the ophthalmologist only inches away from me!
They used a yellow dye to highlight the damaged areas and were so astounded that they called all the eye doctors in to have a look. I felt quite privileged and secretly pleased at the thought of having all these expert opinions :). They even photographed my eyes to use as teaching material.
After all the examination excitement I was told the somewhat dreaded news that indeed my eyes were producing very few natural tears and my corneas had become damaged. They wanted to use a two pronged approach for treatment- firstly to retain the tears I did have and secondly to keep my eyes lubricated using eye drops (which were called celluvisc) and an eye ointment for night time use (called lacrilube).
Use of the eye drops and ointment was simple (although not pleasant - I will cover my experience with these in later posts). Preserving the tears was a different matter, which involved two small, separate procedures - first blocking my tear ducts and then closing the tear ducts permanently!
More on these in my next post! thanks for reading and please visit again!
That honestly sounds very painful. I hope it wasn't as bad as it sounds.
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Hi Christopher, thanks for your comment. Yes the small procedures were painful but I recovered from them fairly quickly (more on these in my next post).
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