Here is my wish list for the day: To get someone on the phone who cares enough to help rather than "passing you on"
The best eye drops to use for dry eye, are autologous serum eye drops. These are eye drops made from the patients own blood and contain all the proteins, nutrients and antibodies of natural tears. Up to now we have been travelling to Miami to have them made so this makes them ridiculously expensive with the cost of flights, hotels etc. Recently I found a Canadian medical article about the drops and I thought this was perfect, because now we could simply have them made locally. I contacted the author of the article, who was very helpful, but since then I have been on this "merry-go-round" of phone calls, constantly being passed from one person to the other. I think I have spent over 20 hours for the answer to one simple question. This is the side of a "'rare" disorder that no-one sees, the hours and hours of red tape and bureaucracy for every little thing - it makes things so unnecessarily stressful. The worst part is that I usually end up being passed back to the the people I called in the first place. If you would like to read the Canadian article, you can find it at:
http://article.pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/RPAS/rpv?hm=HInit&calyLang=eng&journal=cjo&volume=44&afpf=i09-015.pdf
I just read about a new product calledClaritin Eye. This is not liquid loratadine for the eye. It is a solution of ketotifen 0.025%, which is exactly the same asZatidor. They are available over-the-counter. Drops can be put in the eye about every 12 hours. To answer a common question: no, samples are not available in doctor's offices, at least not mine.
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companies have extended their brands into new eye-drops products, but despite carrying the Zyrtec and Claritin names neither eye-drops brand contains any of the drugs that consumers know as Zyrtec or Claritin.
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OASIS Tears Plus are amazing. They contain glycerin and hyaluronic acid. Hours of relief. It is over-the-counter, but is not available in stores. Only through eye care professionals' office or through the company directly.
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The Apothecary Shop Pharmacy specializes in Ophthalmology and compounds the Autologous eye drops and ships right to your home. They will work with you and your lab to get your drawn blood Fedex'd to their location and then ship them to you.
ReplyDeleteLeiter's Pharmacy of San Jose California compounds autologous serum eye drops and ships them to your home. They will accept faxed scripts from your doctor and blood shipped from specified labs. I go to the University of Pennsylvania, the closest preferred lab, to have a standard STD test done and blood drawn for the drops.
ReplyDeleteThis thread on the DryEyeZone.com lists some resources for serum drops
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