Dry Eyes (Page 2): Aging's great, ain't it! Something new every day. I know someone who used that, and it worked very well. The important thing is to get right on every symptom as soon...

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

SteveR wrote:

I have been bothered by dry eyes recently. Probably partly due to age and partly due to computer use. An assistant in my ophthalmologists (do you know how hard that word is to spell???) office recommended GenTeal Gel. I have been putting a drop of this into my eye every night and I have no dry eye the next day and do not have to use eye drops during the day. Hope it helps.

Aging's great, ain't it! Something new every day. I know someone who used that, and it worked very well. The important thing is to get right on every symptom as soon as it develops.

ncshutterbug

jerryc41 wrote:

Aging's great, ain't it! Something new every day. I know someone who used that, and it worked very well. The important thing is to get right on every symptom as soon as it develops.

Yeah, sure keeps the doctor happy! I have new symptoms while telling him about other symptoms!
:x

F16 Club

SteveR wrote:

I have been bothered by dry eyes recently. Probably partly due to age and partly due to computer use. An assistant in my ophthalmologists (do you know how hard that word is to spell???) office recommended GenTeal Gel. I have been putting a drop of this into my eye every night and I have no dry eye the next day and do not have to use eye drops during the day. Hope it helps.

SteveR
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viscountdriver Loc: East Kent UK

Try a little honey on the eye lids.I mean the eating kind.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ncshutterbug wrote:

Yeah, sure keeps the doctor happy! I have new symptoms while telling him about other symptoms!
:x

Speaking of doctors, have you noticed that they now spend most of their time looking at the screens of the little computers they all carry around with them? All my doctors and nurses carry computers with them now - no more paper charts.

TedPaul Loc: Madison, MS

My wife has DRY EYES. #1 doctor in the country is in Houston, dr. Pflugfelder. Wife was blind. 2yrs and 3 corneal transplants later she sees 2020/ and 20/25. She has and still uses STERILE Optive drops as well as something you likely do not need. Plasma drops made from her own blood. Feel free to contact me at tppanther@att.net. We now live in Mississippi. Regular trips to Houston her eyes were so dry, blinking at night would scratch her cornea. Local M.D.'s didn't have a prayer. When blind I insisted on a referral. Dry eyes. Are under rated. Computer can be a problem. Wife is a radiologist, cannot sit at the computer to read studies as necessary. Retired, of course. The Optive she uses is the sterile one, in small individual doses. Take care of those peepers. Keepers creepers,buddy.

CARABUCO Loc: L.A., CALIFORNIA

Wabbit, you always come up with the best. That`s `cause you sick. Works fine.

ncshutterbug

jerryc41 wrote:

Speaking of doctors, have you noticed that they now spend most of their time looking at the screens of the little computers they all carry around with them? All my doctors and nurses carry computers with them now - no more paper charts.

And you can read what they write. One of my many doctors sends the prescriptions directly to the pharmacy from the laptop while I'm there-no hand written orders. I like that-less chance of mistake!

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ncshutterbug wrote:

And you can read what they write. One of my many doctors sends the prescriptions directly to the pharmacy from the laptop while I'm there-no hand written orders. I like that-less chance of mistake!

That is a major advance. A while back, they began printing them on a computer - extremely legible. Now it's all electronic, which they must love. When the Rx isn't ready at the pharmacy, the druggist says he didn't receive it. When I call the doctor's office, they say they sent it. No one has to accept responsibility for the missing Rx. Even when it is supposedly sent, it can still take a few days for the Rx to be ready. Either it isn't sent right away, or the drug store takes too long. I get as much as I can mail order, 3 months at a time.

ncshutterbug

jerryc41 wrote:

That is a major advance. A while back, they began... (show quote)

I was told at the doctor's office that it's the fault of the fax machines. They're just not dependable and sometimes take a couple of days to get the message or not at all. And if it happens to be the doctor's day off you can forget it until he gets back to work! Nobody checks his faxes til then! There is a sign on the counter that says "please allow 5 days for prescriptions to be filled". Good advice. Better hope he doesn't have the week off!

pounder35 Loc: "Southeast of Disorder"

SteveR wrote:

I have been bothered by dry eyes recently. Probably partly due to age and partly due to computer use. An assistant in my ophthalmologists (do you know how hard that word is to spell???) office recommended GenTeal Gel. I have been putting a drop of this into my eye every night and I have no dry eye the next day and do not have to use eye drops during the day. Hope it helps.

Just curious Steve but do you wear contacts? That's my biggest complaint with contacts and why I gave up on them years ago.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ncshutterbug wrote:

I was told at the doctor's office that it's the fault of the fax machines. They're just not dependable and sometimes take a couple of days to get the message or not at all. And if it happens to be the doctor's day off you can forget it until he gets back to work! Nobody checks his faxes til then! There is a sign on the counter that says "please allow 5 days for prescriptions to be filled". Good advice. Better hope he doesn't have the week off!

My doc doesn't use a fax. It's more like an email system. With fax, he'd have to print all the Rx and then run them through the machine. As an aside, fax machines are very popular in Japan. It seems that everything gets faxed everywhere.

ncshutterbug

jerryc41 wrote:

My doc doesn't use a fax. It's more like an email system. With fax, he'd have to print all the Rx and then run them through the machine. As an aside, fax machines are very popular in Japan. It seems that everything gets faxed everywhere.

Maybe they need to start texting them in. Nobody seems to have a problem with that-could even be done while driving (kidding!!!).
Although I did get one that was meant for someone else discussing killing someone's son in law! (not kidding!!!)

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

ncshutterbug wrote:

Maybe they need to start texting them in. Nobody seems to have a problem with that-could even be done while driving (kidding!!!).
Although I did get one that was meant for someone else discussing killing someone's son in law! (not kidding!!!)

That's scary.

tnguy Loc: Tennessee

My eye doctor says that is the best product on the market for dry eyes.
It works.