Talk:Recurrent corneal erosion

message: I have recurrent erosion syndrome - I have yet to find any dr that agrees on how to handle this. I would say from personal experience - that lieing in bed with a fan near the bed, has caused me greater difficulties with my eyes. I was sleeping with a fairly strong fan near my bed and had constant trouble, to the point all the drops and ointments I was previously using were not working. I had since stopped having the fan near my face and night and have had no new episodes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Elizabethdmcc (talk • contribs) 02:24, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recurrent Erosion 

message: i was hit in the eye with a peice of wire, it cut into my cornia. i visited three hospitals eight times before i was referred to an eye clinic, it was at the clinic i was diogosed with corneal erosion syndrom where i was told to use a clorosig eye cream every four hours everyday and in the hope this would help heal my eye. i have been applying the cream everyday for six months now and this syndrom keeps recurrering, once you get this syndrom do you have it for life?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.180.233.19 (talk) 22:16, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  corneal erosion syndrom 

message: From the Revision as of 03:35, 18 March 2013, by Ecrtpp
I have much experience with recurrent corneal erosion over the years, have had both excellent ophthalmologists and really neglectful incompetent ones, but have *never* had any suggestion that rings anything like that paragraph about "tie a belt around your head that has tissues taped to it before you sleep."  In fact, if a person has concretions and does this, it may well *worsen* the condition by causing deep corneal abrasions.
I suggest if wikipedia wants to keep that paragraph, they find someone who can cite a source--preferably one from a medical journal published within the past 30 years--because as it reads, it sounds more like someone having a laugh, perhaps at the expense of less savvy users who may be suffering and on a limited budget, who may well be put in a much worse condition, were they to follow that "advice."
Lubrication, "bandage" contacts; having lubrication ready to go at the bedside upon waking, and lifting the eyelid whilst adding the drops.  Those will afford some relief.  Sleeping with a belt around your head to which you've taped folded-up tissues?  1st, I hope you don't have concretions; 2nd, I hope you're a deep sleeper, who doesn't move; 3rd, dry-eye is not the result of sleeping with eyes open, further indicating the "method" as nothing more than an exercise in futility; 4th, be aware if anyone sees you they are likely to laugh hard.
From my experience--over a collective 6 years, but spanning more than 25 years, and having had contact with more than a dozen ophthalmologists (there was a bad accident; surgery; most recently concretions that had to be surgically removed)--if a medical doctor tells a patient to tie a belt with tissues on it around the head as a remedy, it is very much time to seek a second opinion, as the doctor is most likely either a quack, or takes the patient to be a hypochondriac and/or otherwise not in need of true medical treatment.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.57.61.201 (talk) 22:46, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tie a robe belt around your head? This must be a joke.