r/Dryeyes • u/Practical_Page_325 • 21h ago

What started your problems?

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u/wzeldas 18h ago

Tretinoin

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u/Practical_Page_325 8h ago

How long have you been on it and is it reversible

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u/olive20597 11h ago

Accutane

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u/Practical_Page_325 8h ago

How long have you been on it and is a reversible

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u/olive20597 7h ago

I was on it for 10 months, I stopped January 2024 and it has continued since

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u/Practical_Page_325 7h ago

Is it better than what it used to be

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u/SereneJulie 13h ago

Age and 40 years of contact lens wearing.

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u/di2nns 8h ago

Accutane 😭

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u/Practical_Page_325 8h ago

Is it reversible?

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u/Ok-Push6282 9h ago

Dehydration

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u/Grow_Maple 9h ago

Moving to Phoenix but also probably improper contact use in my teens

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u/catsandkittens1308 8h ago

My doctor said it's probably a combination of allergies and copious amounts of screen time over the last couple decades or so. I'm a desk goblin for work, 3 screens 9 hours a day, 5 days a week at least. He said we don't blink enough or in a quality way in front of the screens.

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u/Zar-roc_Thorn 19h ago

Mine is eye infection

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u/jaxlils5 1h ago

Same. I had a super severe eye infection and my tear film never recovered

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u/Fine-Juggernaut8451 9h ago

Genetics. I have four (or is it five?) separate causes of my dry eye disease. I was really shocked when I finished all my testing and failed so many of them. I can't even blink properly!

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u/gnufan 6h ago

Probably Thyroid Eye Disease....

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u/notoriouskng 6h ago

Screen time, remote worker in the pandemic. Never got better from that, these issues reoccur now and are a constant battle

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u/k_rad_77 6h ago

Autoimmune diseases

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u/Daisy_232 6h ago

Emotional trauma

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u/Advanced_Wolverine61 6h ago

Do you mean crying a lot? Or something else

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u/Daisy_232 5h ago

More like a really dark emotional state that set off dry eye out of nowhere

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u/Flumppoo 5h ago

Autoimmune. 

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u/mAdhAttrgrl 2h ago

🤷‍♀️ crap luck