I have tried all those you mentioned and once school started back and I started teaching, all my symptoms reappeared, fuzzy vision, irritated,dry eyes. I am very frustrated, the macual problem only increases my concern over vision.
If it is allergies will these help?
Neither is specific for dry eyes. pataday is a once/day allergy eye drop and Xibrom is a non-steroidal antiinflammatory.
If your problems are truely dry eyes you would do better with frequent artifical tears, a lubricating gel at bedtime, oral fish oil (2-4 enteric coated/day) and if moderate or severe then a 6 month trial of Restasis.
JCH MD
I spoke with one of the doctors here the other day about a dry eye problem. I went to my eye doc and vision was 20/25 in both eyes with glasses of course and that is even with my wet, now dry AMD. GOOD I thought
He said my eyes were very dry and it looked like the redness, itchy, fuzzy vision, and dryness was from allergies. He gave me 2 different drops and said we could try these to see if it helped or if the symptoms returned after I stopped using them, there were Pataday and Xibrom. Like most I didn't ask the questions I should have.
How do you feel about using these for this problem? Will they effect my AMD?
Will this dryness and irritation tend to make my vision a little foggy/blurry?
Your symptoms do not suggest wet ARMD. Get an opinion from a eye MD that specializes in cornea/external disease.
Use the search feature on this page and read about the treatment of dry eyes.
JCH MD