Been suffering from Dry Eyes for the past 1 year, finally found some relief!

I have got diagnosed with MGD and DED a year ago. I have suffered a lot for so many months and tried various drops, treatments like IPL, MeiboFlow etc before finding a relief.

Firstly, try to reduce mobile usage as much as possible. This alone helps in improving blinking rate and thus the secretion of meibum doesn't get blocked.

And then, do warm compresses twice a day for 10 mins for 10 days. And then you can try to reduce the frequency to once every 3 days. Some people are okay with doing compresses twice a day indefinitely, but I am not sure about it, as some reports suggest cornea might get damaged and can lead to keratoconus. I am not sure how true this is. Hence, I personally do warm compresses once every 3 days. This alone improves 80% of the symptoms.

And blinking excercises, 20-20-20 rule helps a lot. If your eye lids are sticky while waking up, I would suggest you to put Lacryl-PG gel before going to bed. It acts as a lubricant between eye lid and eye ball.

And do use Preservative free Sodium hyaluronate drops atleat 4x a day, for faster healing.

I know this disease is very hard to manage, but yeah there is hope and we can get out of this !