Comment by jMyles
1 year ago
Hmmm interesting. I have an anecdote to share:
I've been suffering from presbyopia for some years (I'm 41 now, and it seemed to start getting pretty bad around 38 or so). My eyes also often feel dry, itchy, and half-closed. I have floaters in my left eye. If I open both of my eyes very wide, and cover only my left eye with my hand, the problem becomes much less severe.
When I went to an eye doctor, they used a drug, placed in eye drops, to force my pupils to dilate, which I gather is typical.
Not only did these drops provide fast-acting relief from the feelings of dryness and itchiness, but my vision also improved markedly for about a day and a half afterward.
I reported this to the doctor via a phone call, but they either didn't seem to believe me, or didn't seem to care.
I haven't found a solution yet, but I do wish that those drops were commercially available for me to use for experimentation.
There are a lot of different drops without needing the doc, have you tried them? I have similar problems and was told to use the off the shelf stuff and it has worked pretty good. The thicker the fluid, the better the results were. I use "HYLO-gel".
The doctor also warned to stay away from eye drops that has any sort of preservatives, it reacts with the tear fluid and gets almost like sand corns in the eyes.
Also, find a real eye doctor...