I’m 81 I want to say thank you for this I had pain in my eyes I know I have dry eye I happened to find this blog I have tears and yet I’m told I have dry eyes wishing you were my optical doctor

having dry eyes really kills your self esteem, everyday i have to walk out the door knowing i dont have healthy white eyes and will stay like that for most of the day people always think you are a drug addict or sick and strangers treat you very different and arent as friendly to you as they would be to somebody whos eyes look normal, even cashiers and staff at stores, ever since i got dry eyes, socially its destroyed my confidence i hope i can get it treated permenantly asap so i can be treated normal again like everybody else

@musicalnostalgician4083

3 жыл бұрын

Stay strong man, your eyes will get cured someday! :)

@coburnic

3 жыл бұрын

You just described my life, I feel the same way and it’s horrible. I’ve been avoiding people because I can’t stand to make eye contact because of how my eyes look and I have to constantly look away and am visibly in pain.

@Dakappon

3 жыл бұрын

How are you doing buddy?

@333Eriana

3 жыл бұрын

@@coburnic i have to use artificial tears all the time - one of my tear ducts does not work my vision is always crappy , but after i use boric-acid -eyewash i can see just fine - - until the dirt build s up on my eyeballs - I had my eyes exrayed and the doctor said i want you to go home and use drops for a week then come back - because i might give you the wrong prescriptions - my eyeballs were imbedded with dirt . When i went back - he examines and tested and i didn't need new glasses

@ronipineda9847

3 жыл бұрын

@@coburnic I feel the same way. I’m new to this. Less than a year

Can't even believe how helpful this turned out to be. I've grown to expect the bare minimum from conventional doctors but this woman has proven me wrong.

The most comprehensive lecture on dry eye I've ever seen--wonderful clear speaker-easy on the ear. Lots of valuable information here.

Kudos to this doctor. She went above and beyond what many doctors have not. Thank you.

Great information for us sufferers; wish all doctors were this informative. (sigh)

Thank you for being so passionate about treating the people suffering from dry eye.

I really appreciate those who made this video possible, and the great presentation that this ophthalmologist gave. It was easy to listen to and I didn't get bored out of my tree. I had been watching some short videos from others giving ideas on how they treated their dry and gritty eyes. My own doctor simply suggested drops and rinsing my eyes out with a saline solution. My dad had an enormous problem with his eyes in the last 20 years of his life: he died 10 years ago. The doctors of the time probably didn't know what you know. Unfortunately it appears your average GP should be passing patients on to those who do know. But is this knowledge specific to Penn Medicine or is it widely known among ophthalmologists?

VERY Thorough talk!!! Thank you! You have a true gift. KEEP RISING!

The best non-tech lecture i have heard in recent time,Thank you for so informative content, i wish my doc has this much information.

I wish all docs had her wholistic approach to finding root cause to then dx and treat based on type and cause. She’s amazing 😉

This is a very high quality presentation. It is detailed and at the same time simple for patients with non-medical background to understand. Its extremely practical and seemed exhaustive.

Thank you for posting this video. It's really very clear and comprehensive information about dry eyes.

An excellent informative presentation from Dr Massaro-Giordano. She explains the condition and treatment options in a very concise and clear manner and has given me great ideas for when I next speak to my ophthalmologist about my dry eye issues.

I‘ve actually considered wearing swimming googles at night, because my eyes get painfully dry during the night. Glad to hear, I‘m not crazy! Very useful presentation, learnt lots. Wish, regular doctors were half as passionate and helpful.

@aravindram1480

2 жыл бұрын

What kind of dry eyes you had ?

Excellent Doctor and information. Thank you. Women are often told or treated like they are "crazy"and its 2022 (when it comes to health related issues esp as they age) This information you presented is priceless to me,regards.

this was so helpful and made me realise that I'm NOT crazy..... I need a more accurate diagnosis then I can determine the best treatment!!!

Clear educational presentation. Easy to follow. Easy to understand. So helpful. This lecture is gold. Thank you so much

Thank you for sharing. Creating awareness and clarifing misunderstanding is fundamental. Your research work and that of your Department is indeed appreciated, Thank you!

Thanks! It is a great lecture! It has enabled to understand better the pathology and its different treatments!

What a star this woman is. Well done. Great lecture.

Excellent Lecture!!!! So well presented and very clear. Thank you for making this possible. Gives me new hope for the medical industry since I have been misdiagnosed twice.

suffered from dry eye for years and this is the most helpful explaination including all ophthalmologist I've ever visited. Thank you!

This professor is awesome!! I enjoyed this lecture very much.

Wonderful insights into this condition. Many thanks. We need more awareness globally.

Very impressive presentation, this really helps me understand and hopefully resolve my dry eye problem. I cannot thank you enough.

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

Excellent ! I feel well informed now, thank you, Jon

Excellent lecture. I suffer from dry eyes due to cornea abrasion and my doctor failed to diagnose it for years! I find it very difficult to open my eyes in the morning it can take up to 5 minutes and a lot of drops. I'm in my 50s and know this horrible disease can only be managed not cured. There's very little information out there even amongst professionals so thank you !

Excellent presentation. I wish she was my doctor.

@samward8154

2 жыл бұрын

Can you discuss Isotretinoin and how it affects eyes

this was an excellent lecture!

Very eloquent and persuasive. This is a first-rated presentation!

Always a pleasure and a valuable tool to watch thorough explanations that our doctors never have close to the time to explain. Thank You! I am going in today for a OCT (Optical Coherence Tomography) test.

This has been so very helpful! Thank you

Wow, the best presentation ever. Very systematic

Great video! Thanks for posting. So much good information!

Great presentation. Clear and easy for a non medical person to understand.

IMPRESSIVE Presentation...Knowledge & such a Sweet lovely Doctor! Thank you🙏👏👏👏

I Need an appointment with her! She’s amazing W

where was this video all my life??? Thank you

What an awesome presentation !!!!

Thank you very much for explaining everything soo well. Finally I understand my condition. Thank you.

Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge . God Bless 🙏❤️

This video contains excellent information and helpful treatments

Very competent and informative Doctor.

This lecture is full of knowledge.

Great video, thank you very much for such great and educational material.

Thank you this is very informative.

Wow! Thank you so much for making this video. I have an excellent doctor and he has talked about lots of things that I heard here. Before finding this doctor, I went to another doctor that was like the speaker described that her mother went to. They just didn't care . They were considered a dry eye specialist yet they only wanted to sell me a very expensive machine. Thankfully I found my new doctor and he has been patient and knowledgeable about all these things in the video. It was great being able to listen and pause the video. It's hard to take in all this information during a regular office visit.

@nirmaladesai636

2 жыл бұрын

Can you please let me know name of your doctor ? I would like to consult him for my dry eyes . Thank you

I cannot believe how much I am learning from this video! I cannot believe that 3 eye "doctors" just totally dismissed me & said there's nothing they can do without even trying.

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

This is very helpful. I tried all the advice given in this video. It was helpful. I would also like to add that changing my diet to include lots of Vit A also helped me drastically.

This presentation is most helpful. I warmly thank you.

@r.mercado9737

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Thank you...I learned a lot about dry eyes.

A brilliantly informative lecture. The presentation is excellent and very easy to listen to. May I also say, what a very beautiful woman she is. She is very lucky and should thank her parents for her looks.

Excellent! Thank you for your full explanation of my dry eyes. Just received my punctual plugs and already feeling so much better 😍

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

Dear Doctor, You have a spectacularly pleasing speaking voice!! My eyes are pretty valuable!! Thanks for your help. 👁 👁

Very clear explanations

Thank you SO much. You know everything about the eye!!!

Thank you for information.will try some of these methods

What an interesting lecture - I agree wholeheartedly with what other people have said - if only our regular doctors understood this condition better. There are so many potential reasons why people have this condition and just packing us off with eye drops doesn't solve the problem. I believe my sudden dry eye is perhaps hormone related and this Prof. highlighted it for me. Thank you very much :)

@gretaaarons4941

2 жыл бұрын

A clean gut, thyroid issues ruled out and no deficiency of B12

Amazing is the Education she provided for dry eyes. I want to go to her clinic . I Am From New York

This was a wonderful video. This lady is amazing. Do all eye doctors know about all this. I find any doctors I have been to ignore my complaints about my eyes i.e., tearing itching, etc.

Love this!! A very integrative approach. Helping the causes vs just the symptoms!!

@amalelchayeb7229

3 жыл бұрын

I have seethrough balloons coming out from lower eye lid that No Doctor could tell me what is it or how to get rid of except suggestions for warm compressions...did no difference !!

@amalelchayeb7229

3 жыл бұрын

For about 5 years now, am over 60 yrs now.

Amazing lecture, thank you

Wonderful presentation, clear style, comprehensive information, passionate about the subject, and lots of useful information for patients. Loved the detail about warm, moist compresses for dry eye. Thanks for posting this video.

I want to share that I had an appointment with my eye doctor about my dry 👀, I was glad to hear that the FDA has been approved the generic for Restasis, but is not in the stores yet. I wish you all of you the best with their treatments.

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

Brilliant , thank you so much for the information as I suffer with anterior blepharitis & it sucks Big Time !

You are an angel sent from God, lady! A LITERAL answer to my prayers!! I feel like there's going to be an end to my suffering some where in the near future.

Why don't doctors just tell us that we have a vitamin A deficiency? I had dry eyes for years until I found out that it was all due to malnourishment. I started eating eggs again after 18 years, but I made sure they were pastured grass-fed organic eggs with organic butter and everything that was organic that was high in Vitamin A and incorporating more organic carrots, dod liver oil liver, and cheese in my diet. The Kale and the collard greens although weren't a true vitamin A, they were at least a pre-vitamin A that converted to an active form in my body. The real culprit was that I was insulin resistant that affected my gallbladder which became sluggish because of all the bad foods I was eating and my gallbladder wasn't producing enough bile to breakdown the fat-soluble nutrients from the food I was eating regardless of the quality of food. Now my dry eyes are gone. I started really reading the back of the stevia to make sure it had no added ingredients with the worst culprit being maltodextrin. I didn't realize that not all stevia is true stevia and the kind I was consuming was worse than sugar. I would've been better off with pure cane sugar than the fake stevia I was buying. I had no idea that maltodextrin was in my large bag of stevia for baking. I really have to read the label because that extremely high level of sugar was pulling out my vitamins and minerals from my body. It's very refreshing to hear information from a doctor that talks about what may be lacking in the diet, you're a breath of fresh air. Thank you.

@kirstymackenzie2437

3 жыл бұрын

Karla Agee-Seldon. Thank you for pointing out the matter of maltodextrin! I’m pre-diabetic and it seems to be in a lot of foodstuffs which is not good for me, like sweeteners. I’m going to stop using them straight away. Again thank you.

Excellent delivery and I've learned so much, Put my name down for your clinic or send this clip to Doctors in Scotland, Thank's for posting : )

excellent.. detailed and useful inf.. tnx

I feel the same way As a lot of you were mentioning I was recently diagnosed. It has been so difficult. Nothing works 100% and I never have complete relief. It’s affecting my personal life as well as my social life. It’s really affected everything. But this doctor is amazing I’m listening to her and she is describing everything to the t.

@iiieagle926

3 жыл бұрын

Hi, did you try re

@iiieagle926

3 жыл бұрын

Restasis

@aravindram1480

2 жыл бұрын

Hi how many months you suffered?

@kingnole4237

Жыл бұрын

​@@aravindram1480 how are you aravind

@kamilekapel

8 ай бұрын

Yes, it does affect one's personal life a great deal. Have you tried optimel Manuka honey gel? It gives me complete relief for a delicious period of time.

It can make you feel like you’re blind, because you can’t ever see a damn thing! Thank you so much for this it was a wealth of information :-)

Thank you. So helpful.

Brilliant! So well explained and comprehensive.

great video thankyou

Good video. I have dry eyes it's very painful almost blind now in left eye, and light sensitive. I have preservative free eye drops. Pain every day agony most of the time. Pain goes down my neck. It started following left eye graft 1990-91. I wish I never had it.

Good presentation. Difference between a good Doctor and a lousy one. Thank you.

Great explanation of dry eye!!!

I really thank you for this information!! Im watching and rewatching & taking notes. I AM going to find an eye dr who will help me. And, through education via your video, I'm going to help them help me! Hopefully before I go blind from this.

Excellent lecture. I'm applying some of your tips in my daily life and it works to have the humidifier on in the winter months. Wish I knew this earlier 😄

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

This is so informative. I have had eye issues for 6 months and still not sorted I am on another referral . I bet if I saw this specialist they would have it sorted in no time!

@aravindram1480

2 жыл бұрын

Hi. How you feeling now. Is it reversed

Very good talk on Tear Dysfunction Syndrome, thanks Dr Massaro-Giodano. Almost everyone I see over the age of 40 has meibomian dysfunction and often chlasis.

Thank you so very much for this information. This condition was starting to drive me crazy. It affects my daily life and is very frustrating. Ill be sure to see an opthamologist to get to the bottom of whats causing this.

Fantastic presentation! Very informative and I have taken notes to present to my ophthalmologist to, at the least, receive a comprehensive examination to determine the cause of my tear dysfunction syndrome in my right eye. Strange that it isn't in my left eye, too.

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

I've had severe dry eye for a while now and now have ocular migraine..are they both connected? I love your video..so informative thankyou 😃🤗

@mixytampa812

4 жыл бұрын

I just had ocular migrane yesterday eye doctor wants to see me tomorrow I had lasik surgery 4 years ago Today I have small floaters but I been working too hard on the computer without blue light glasses I just ordered them today well see

Thank you for caring for people with dry eyes!!❤ I have huge problem with dry eyes, for many years. I have to take drops all the time (Hylo-Gel, Oftagel) I live in Sweden and the is no help to get here…. they orten just shaking there head ”there is nothing to do…) Many hugs /Helen

Seriously thank you. God I wish you were my dr. I’ve had this for 2 weeks and going crazy. Thank you for the discussion on importance of identifying cause, Omega 3 discussion and Doxycycline comments. I have rosacea. Bless you.

@medhikasingh6327

8 ай бұрын

do you get any tears while crying or cutting onion?

I´m so so grateful to this wonderful doctor who made the video. Thank you so much!! No doctor has ever given me 5 % of this information.

@Priyan0000

4 ай бұрын

how r u now... Please reply 🥺🥺 I m suffering 😭😭

She gave a list of factors and treatment alongwith diet and nutrition. Keeping the gut clean is so important to avoid deficiencies of B vitamins that can cause dry eyes and inflammation too especially in people with hypothyroidism.

Great video! very informative thanks

Very informative, I which you were here in Hawaii. Any suggestions for places here?

I wish you were my doctor

Awesome thanks a lot

Any new traitement for dryness caused by Lasik ? thank you.

How and where can I meet this doctor ??? anyone ?? She is Amazing !!!

15 years of telling all my doctors and eye specialists that my eyes are dry and irritated, all I got was prescriptions of freaking expensive artificial tear drops which does nothing than 10 mins relief. And here I am watching this video from 10 years ago feeling like a fool under the stupid medical system

@erizabeth613

Жыл бұрын

Tear drops are waste of money we need permanent solution. F dry eyes

@Drd3wq

8 ай бұрын

Till this moment is your eye ok? I have this shit for 4 years and it kill my life i am just 22 years old kid god why me 🥺

@hnuda

6 ай бұрын

me to ...do you know any treatment for it ​@@Drd3wq

@aliiozturkk

5 ай бұрын

@@Drd3wqI’m 18 and I’ve this bs for 2 years😭😭😭

@Music.23.

4 ай бұрын

3 months and still it's the same condition

Excellent professional! my biggest difficulty with my eyesight is that my eyes itch a lot

@Priyan0000

4 ай бұрын

how r u now... Please reply 🥺🥺 I m suffering 😭😭

Can you please tell which ocular pathologies/ conditions (directly or indirectly) linked to the increased permeability of the ocular surface other than dry eye, eye allergies and inflammation.

You're wonderful

Wow!!! Thank you!!