Hey,

I have a similar problem. Often when I wake up my eyelids seem to stick
together, mostly on both eyes. I can't use my eye muscles to open them,
it feels like I rip something (probably epithelium layer) off my eye.
But if I use my finger to pull the lower eye lid a little, it opens
easily like a charm (not sticky or anything) and there's no problem
blinking. It's just strange I cant use my eye muscles to open them when
it's so easy with my finger, I guess the eye muscles pull in a wrong way.

The first times I got it, it hurt really bad because I was used to
opening my eyes upon awakening - so I automatically tried and it really
"pulled" my epithelium so it hurt for some minutes (no, they didn't even
open). So I quickly learned to keep my eyes closed when waking up.

I had a lasek surgery December last year, so I believe(d) the stickiness
is because of dryness at night. But after I open them with my finger,
they don't really feel dry, and I rarely have a dry problem during the
day (anymore). I can also move my eyes freely under my eye lids when
they are stuck. Maybe a vacuum problem.

It used to be a bit worse, so I guess it's improving. Never had anything
like it before my lasek.

Try to pull your lower eye lid carefully with your finger to open your
stuck eye in the morning. You can also try to put on some good eye
lubricant right before you go to bed, like lacryvisc (gel) or refresh pm
(oil/petroleum) to see if it's a dry problem. Especially a good dose of
refresh pm helps for me, but I don't use it because it makes my eyes
feel more dry the rest of the following day.

Your doctor will want to know if it opens *completely* or if the right upper
eyelid stays a little droopy during the day.

At different times of day, look carefully in the mirror and see if the right
lid sits at the same place relative to your iris, or is the left lid a
little higher than the right.

Also notice whether your pupils are the same size - is the right pupil
slightly smaller than the left?

-MT, OD