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Originally Posted by sadievan
Saw in your link that you take Flax seed for Dry Eye. Never heard of doing that. Does it help?
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To be honest, what seems to help me the most is walnut oil. That could be because I like walnuts and walnut oil better than the flax so I was/am much better about eating it. The flax gave me some digestive issues (it's pure fiber) too so I am pretty much relying on walnut oil, walnuts, fish, avocados and the like. Walnut oil is easy to fit into my diet -- I just make my own salad dressings with it and my own mayo (sometimes). I use walnut oil in place of butter in some things (like my morning oatmeal). I add it to EVERYTHING that requires mayo (you can thin your mayo with it ahead of time or add it in place of some mayo in recipes): potato salad, cold pasta salad, cesaer dressing, and deviled eggs too. It takes about 2 months to really notice a difference, but it has helped A LOT. I've been eating walnuts and walnut oil in my diet for 3 years and I never have the really awful gritty-can barely stand my eyeball problems. I used to have to stop reading a book right in the middle because I just could not deal with the painful dry eye. I'd sit there with drops trying to relieve the dryness and it could sometimes take two hours or more.
Now I mainly have some dry eye right when I first wake up and no issues reading or other activities, but I eat walnut oil almost daily and sometimes quite a bit of it (usually salad days).
Some other people I know do prefer sprinkling Flax on everything from burritos to salads to muffins. I just didn't care for the stuff and I'm pretty into foods of all kinds. My doc said for dry eye you need a minimum of two tablespoons of flax a day in addition to other omega 3s.
I did not find fish supplements helped. A specialist I saw said that you'd have to take about 15 fish pills per day to start to see a difference. Frankly, I'd rather eat fish, but I like fish and we eat it at least once a week, usually more.
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I know, off topic. Feel free to PM if you have questions. I've tried all kinds of things and I'm pretty happy with my current diet, but as I said, working walnut oil into my lifestyle is very easy for me.