Today, was my appointment with the eye doc my Endo referred me to. He seemed pretty nice. Said that there is a breast cancer drug that is notorious for blocking tear ducts, so my eye wasn't the first he had seen that was blocked up as a result of cancer treatment. He also seemed to know the eye surgeon I saw last January.
He did a test to make sure my eyes were making enough tears, that they were not in fact dry. He put these strips of paper close to the outer corners of my eyes. Didn't feel too bad. The right side felt like it was making more tears than the left side. I passed the tear making test.
Next he looked at my tear ducts, and under my lids, etc. He said there is a hole that leads into the punctum, that pocket looking thing at the inner corner of your eye, but he needs to find out where exactly the blockage is. So I get to go back in two weeks and have "eye surgery" done. Well, at least that is what it said on the sheet I was given, to prepare for the procedure.
He will numb my eyes (well, he didn't really poke around too much with my right eye, so not sure if it will be poked like the left side), then will send in a scope to see how far he can go down the tear duct, or if the tear duct is closed and he can make a loop through the canulas (sp?). Sounds exciting, right? Hopefully he does a much better job of numbing my eyes than the eye doc from last year.
So, depending on what he finds, that will dictate my treatment. Fix my eye, please!
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