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Sun Aug 1, 2010 2:36:17 pm
I have difficulty in closing my eyes completely. I can get them closed, but it requires effort. This is fine when I'm in the shower and trying to avoid getting shampoo in my eyes. This is a problem when I sleep. Keeping my eyes partially open throughout the night causes a lot of tears to develop. Halfway through my sleep, I run out of tears and the accretion begins. I get substantial quantities of hard, sharp crystals. I have actually cut my hands on them a few times while rubbing my eyes in the morning.
I wash out most of the eye gunk while washing my face in the morning, but there is always some residue of slime that is difficult to get out that way. For the past decade, I have been using an eye wash every day after the face wash. This has worked well until a few months ago. The composition of my eye slime seems to have changed. It no longer dissolves in any eye wash that had previously worked for me. I have residue left on my eye more than half the time now. It's irritating and sometime distorts my vision. The only thing that works for me now is wiping my eyeball with facial tissue, which is not comfortable.
Sun Aug 1, 2010 4:25:59 pm
Toilet tissue would disintegrate. Facial tissue doesn't, although the extra soft type would leave lint. I have had this condition for over 3 decades without any damage to my vision. I am not going to get surgery to correct it.
Sun Aug 1, 2010 4:37:37 pm
Also, my mother has the same condition and her eyes survived 72 years of it.
Mon Aug 2, 2010 7:53:14 am
Seeing as the composition of the eye guck has recently changed, I would say it is either infected or has somehow adapted to your cleansing. Did your mother's condition ever change such that cleansers no longer worked?
Mon Aug 2, 2010 12:33:07 pm
re: comment#3
Seeing as the composition of the eye guck has recently changed, I would say it is either infected or has somehow adapted to your cleansing. Did your mother's condition ever change such that cleansers no longer worked?
It doesn't have the characteristics of infection. There is no redness or burning sensation, and there is no extra excretion of slime when I am awake. I haven't asked my mother about it yet.