Thank you for the info. I guess you didn't need to purchase OccuSoft
Lid Scrubs either. That's a savings too. I have have the same
problem, finally got off the antibiotics (doxycycline) and have been
using the Lid Scrubs and a antibiotic ointment at night. Seems to be
working very well. But I will try your way too. Take care!




--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, "Scott" <rubellan@...> wrote:
>
> For the past several years, I have been having fairly regular bouts
> of conjuntivitus. I originally blamed it on allergies, but it began
> to happen more frequently and last for a week or so at a time. Just
> over a year ago I began to have issues with my eyes drying out and
> becoming regularly irritated, THEN I had a poorly administered V-
> Beam treatment with inadequate eye covering which resulted in red,
> flared eyes for about a month.
>
> At this time I decided to go to an eye doctor to hear whatever bad
> news they had for me. She peeked under my eyelids and immediately
> diagnose Blepharitis, ocular rosacea. Great, as if the face wasn't
> bad enough, I now had it in the eyes! She explained how the excess
> oils build up around the eye opening and cause irritation and
> infection, thus indicating the pink eye frequency. She told me the
> basics about keeping the eyes and lashes clean with baby shampoo,
> and seeing how I respond to it.
>
> Here I am, over a year later and virtually cured of this part of the
> condition. How did I manage it? Well, I altered the original
> suggestion, and took a black wash cloth and dug in the corner of my
> eye by my nose. As awful as it sounds, I was surprise to see the
> gore that was removed. I did it with the other eye and had the same
> results. Literally within the next couple of days of doing that
> procedure during the morning shower and in the evening, my eyes
> looked and felt tons better. They were regularly moist and the
> redness was no different than anyone else. I continued the ritual on
> a daily basis and have had ZERO issues with dry eye again over the
> past year. There have been a few cases in which a bout of pink eye
> starts, which is usually in the morning and after some sort of
> allergy related irritation. I do my eye cleaning procedure and it's
> GONE within the hour. THAT'S IT! No medications, no more doctor
> visits, no more weeks of looking at the floor so as not to show my
> red, itchy, watery eyes. Just diggin' in the corner of my eyes with
> a clean, not soapy wash cloth on a daily basis and it's taken care
> of it entirely. Now only if I could find something to work on the
> face...
>