www.dental.am
in that website you can meet with sjogren s and with more diseases/

For me it was just 'there' in my life quite suddenly... and dx'd just as quickly cause I had an opthamologist appt. and it got noticed with my eyes being the worst symptomatically speaking; they were puffy, bloodshot and when he did the litmus paper test there was NO tearing at all
........ they still are the worst problem for me with the sjogrens and the punctal plugs made a huge difference for my quality of life!
The trigger..... I just don't know that it was a trigger exactly, but I do know that I was taking injectible demerol (giving myself shots at the time) for some episode or another post hospitalization.... and it very suddenly was the cause of my eyes drying 'right out' each time I needed the drug and because it was so painful, like sandpaper eyelids on my dry dry eyeballs that I actually quit the shots and went for a different oral med just for the relief in my poor eyes! To heck with what I was taking the shots for lol!  I use my eyes for everything I do!! reading novels, the PC, crochet, tv, movies etc....nevermind everyday chores and 'seeing' my way around <g>!! It was that bad that I wanted instant relief and started pouring in the artificial tears and gel and every other eye product available!!
Triggers now are just like for lupus I find.... stress, sun, overdoing, illness (like the flue last weekend that both MOTH and I got within a day of each other for 5 days straight!!); anything that triggers lupus also sets off sjogrens.
that is my story anyhow... hope it helps?
hugs,
Shelagh