Caporegime
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Hopefully this isn't classed as a medical thread.
I have an ongoing issue that reared it's head about 18 months ago....I started to suffer with severely dry eyes when I'm asleep and I want to get to the bottom of it.
This morning I woke at 4 a.m. and needed to put some eye drops in as they were so bad.
At first I assumed it was something to do with the humidity in the room, so I got something to monitor humidity, but it's exactly where it should be for comfort - broadly around 50%
Then I assumed it was an allergy, as it doesn't affect my wife who sleeps right next to me in the same bedroom. I take Loratadine (antihistamine) every night but it doesn't seem to help.
I figured that perhaps it might be pollution-related as I live near a busy city road, so I ended up with a Dyson purifying heater/cooler and that didn't report much in the way of bad air quality and didn't solve the issue either.
The reason for the thread now is that I just spent a week in Gran Canaria and didn't suffer from any dry eyes at all whilst I was asleep in the hotel room there - And that was with air-conditioning on all night, which tends to dry a room out considerably.
What on earth could be causing this? It's not very pleasant and I worry about the long-term effect on my eyes.
I have an ongoing issue that reared it's head about 18 months ago....I started to suffer with severely dry eyes when I'm asleep and I want to get to the bottom of it.
This morning I woke at 4 a.m. and needed to put some eye drops in as they were so bad.
At first I assumed it was something to do with the humidity in the room, so I got something to monitor humidity, but it's exactly where it should be for comfort - broadly around 50%
Then I assumed it was an allergy, as it doesn't affect my wife who sleeps right next to me in the same bedroom. I take Loratadine (antihistamine) every night but it doesn't seem to help.
I figured that perhaps it might be pollution-related as I live near a busy city road, so I ended up with a Dyson purifying heater/cooler and that didn't report much in the way of bad air quality and didn't solve the issue either.
The reason for the thread now is that I just spent a week in Gran Canaria and didn't suffer from any dry eyes at all whilst I was asleep in the hotel room there - And that was with air-conditioning on all night, which tends to dry a room out considerably.
What on earth could be causing this? It's not very pleasant and I worry about the long-term effect on my eyes.