Hello I'm Brian

Hi ... Ive just discovered this site and also just read Gloria's experience of dry eyes. Its amaizing how similar and fustrating our story is. Simple issues like the discomfort of heating on in the car, etc, shows i'm not really alone as i thought with this very taxing condition. Apologies if this message is boring and over-emotional but its my experience. I am 48 yrs old and I have had my eye condition for 5 years now. The last two years have seen my eyes become severely dry. My most serious symptoms are chronic fatique, semi-depression, chronic headace, sore eyes, stinging eyes. Why me ? I was so healthy for the first 44 years of my life, running up to 100 miles each week on average was my preventative medicine in life and I lved it. Now I can just manage twicw each week jogging for 25 minutes. Does anyone suffer the pain I suffer each daylight hour ? Paracetamol is my biggest friend .... carefully taking no more than 4 per day on average. The pain just finds it way trough. I have tried all of the eye drops, including the serum drops made up from my blood, accupuncture, faith healing, etc. My rheumatoid factor measured 90 in my blood but the doctors say this is not the cause as I dont have sore joints and the factor is caused by my 31 years of running history. I have come to recognise that this is a very complex problem with no obviopus solution. I am aware that the symptoms of 'red eye' that started 5 yrs ago was because of my staring into a computer screen reading very small font on the screen. I ignored the stinging pain in my eyes that time and now i am paying the price. I may have been over-anxious in a new contract job at the time and got 'carried away'. It is so easy just to carry on and accept this condition as part of my life and the amaizing thing is I am constantly trying to cry but I do everything physically and emotionally in the act of crying EXCEPT produce tears. I once seen a schematic drawing of the 'taer producing system' of the eye and it shows the neural links between the eye, the lacrimal glands and the brain. No wonder there is no known cure for CDE to date. I better stop here or I'll go on all day.

Hi Brian,