dry eyes Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/dry-eyes/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 06 Oct 2025 20:42:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Out of Focus https://livingwithscleroderma.com/out-of-focus/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/out-of-focus/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:00:24 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10720

My eyes have been giving me a hard time, of late. Extremely dry from Sjögrens, they are not happy. No matter what kind of eye drops I use, they burn and itch. When I read, I see a shadow around the letters. My vision is often blurred, especially by day’s end. Bright sunlight is intolerable. […]

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It’s a good thing I’m seeing my eye doctor this week for my very dry eyes. For several months, I’ve been struggling with blurred vision, and it is getting worse—to the point where it’s affecting my ability to read easily and see the computer screen clearly. This could be due to one or a combination […]

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Dealing with dry eyes in a Northeast winter is always a challenge. Even as ours has been milder, so far (knock on wood—or not, given that the planet is warming) there’s just no escape from dry heat indoors, regardless of source. Some solve this with a humidifier, but I’ve found them difficult to keep mold-free. […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/dry-spell/feed/ 0 9016 See at Last https://livingwithscleroderma.com/see-at-last/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/see-at-last/#respond Tue, 07 Aug 2018 12:00:51 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=5493 There is nothing like a new pair of glasses with an accurate correction. For months, now, I have been tolerating slightly blurred vision, the aftermath of 60 dives in a Hyperbaric Oxygen chamber last fall to heal my hands from major surgery. This is a common side effect of the treatment, and, as predicted, after […]

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Several months ago, I received a notice from the pharmacy that partners with our health insurance. They were no longer going to cover the Restasis eye drops I rely on for my Sjogren’s Syndrome dryness. Instead, I could substitute a prescription for Xiidra (ex-ID-ra). There was no explanation. I called to be sure I understood. […]

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