Scott

I can totally relate to the bouts of conjunctivitis - I have been going
through that for the past year. My derm says it "may" be ocular rosacea, but
will only prescibe 20mg of doxy a day. My opthamologist keeps varying his
opinion on whether it's a staph infection, viral, or allergies (or a
combination) - bottom line, he doesn't really know. He's prescribed tobradex,
vigamox, patanol, cippro, etc., all of which have helped for short periods of
ime. I have had rosacea for several years so I'm quite sure it's related to
that, even though he doesn't agree.

I'm glad your regimen gave you such great results - forgive me for saying it
sounds too good to be true, and too easy, but it's great to know something so
simple can be the answer. I might feel a little hesitant to really "dig" into
the corner of my eye - I would almost be afraid that would make things worse.

One question - why a black washcloth? does the color matter?

Mike

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...







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