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Medical Forum / General / Vision / August 2006Anyone with Meibomian Gland Dysfunction?
Hello My first post to this ng. For many years I've had Dry Eye Syndrome, which I now believe has progressed to Meibomian Gland Dysfunction (due to the Hormone treatment I've had over the last 18mths for Prostate Cancer.) Anyone in this ng suffer with MGD and if so how are you treating/managing it? I've been to high-priced Ophthalmologists here (in au) and they cannot even positively Diagnose my condition. I have researched this on the web and found some references and treatment recommendations from an Eye Clinic in the Philippines. Good news is that they do in fact work! Problem is, I cannot convince my own GP that these things provide relief. I guess I have to suffer for Professional/Ethical reasons :( -- Reader to complete... -- Please reply to this ng as my email adress is fake: -- Regards -- CC [snip] >Anyone in this ng suffer with MGD and if so how are you >treating/managing it? I see tons of patients with MGD. I typically treat it with a combination of lid scrubs/massage, warm soaks, meibomian gland expression and oral tetracyclines while addressing any concurrent dry eye, if present. >I've been to high-priced Ophthalmologists here (in au) and they cannot >even positively Diagnose my condition. Consider seeing one at a teaching institution. [snip] <snip> >I see tons of patients with MGD. > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Consider seeing one at a teaching institution. That's exactly how I'm treating it! The big problem here is the GP doesn't want to prescribe the Doxycycline for more than 2 courses. I have an Appointment in a couple of mths at Fremantle Hospital Eye Clinic (which IS a teaching Hospital) I'll have to soldier on just with the compresses and scrubs and gland expression, if I cannot get a few month's supply of Doxycycline caps. Thanx for your input. -- Reader to complete... -- Please reply to this ng as my email adress is fake: -- Regards -- CC > That's exactly how I'm treating it! > The big problem here is the GP doesn't want to prescribe the [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I'll have to soldier on just with the compresses and scrubs and gland > expression, if I cannot get a few month's supply of Doxycycline caps. Be aware that the dosing of doxycycline for MGD is not the same as therapeutic dosage for use as an antibiotic! Additionally, the use of oral meds is added to the protocol if the other non-pharmaceutical treatments alone do not work. LB, O.D. Clarrie, send me an email and I will send you instructions on lid therapy. Also, forget ophthals, they won't do anything other than give lubes. Go see Steven Leslie or Gary Fitzpatrick. Look them up in the Yellow pages under optometrists. drgrant@ozemail.com.au
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