Anyone w/ a Gold Weight please respond

[lauralynn]

Hello everyone,

I had my gold weight implanted August 5th....some of you may remember my eye specialist was not nice at all.  Anyways I changed doctors and the new one is super  nice and I go see him tomorrow.  But before I go to see him I had to come to my AN Family first.  My eye is always feeling irritated and w/ in the last week and a half the white of my eye is pink.  Just looks awful.  It doesn't look like pink eye coz there is no junk in my eye.  Anyone who has had or has a Gold Weight did you experience anything like this?  I put in the recommended over the counter ointment but it doesn't give my eye any relief.  I look forward to your responses.

Thank you,

Laura Lynn 

[mandy721]

Hi Laura Lynn,

You aren't alone.  My husband had a platinum weight implanted in August.  The weight helps him to shut they eye, but the right eye is constantly irritated and it often feels like something is in the eye. He feels that the ointment he uses at night gunks up the eye and breaks down and forms little grainy bits, which he is sure adds to the irritation.  He uses eyedrops frequently during the day, but often feels that there is something in the eye.  I think it may be a result of the eye not blinking properly.  Yesterday he had a short period when the eye was blinking almost normally and it felt much better!  Today, not so much. At night, he has been using the ointment with Glad wrap cover.  Last night he decided to ditch the ointment and use the drops instead with a Glad Wrap patch.  Another irritant was his eye lashes and the eye guy removed a few that were bothering him.  Recently some of the upper lashes were growing down, instead of up and this was another problem....the solution was an eyelash curler! 

Dealing with the eye is a daily issue.  Not one of the complications my husband ever thought he would have to deal with.  I have urged him to bring up all the eye issues with the opthamalogist when he sees hi.  Making sure the eye stays healthy is a top priority.  I hope you find some relief soon.

Mandy

[moe]

Laura Lynn,
I had the gold weight and yes I get that pink  irritated  eye on occasion.
I was given the eye ointment in antibiotic form from the doc , and used that for quite a while (months) after the weight placement. I now use just eye ointment at night (AKWA TEAR ?) with a thin strip of paper tape to keep the eye closed. I  have some of the antibiotic stuff when the eye acts up. Hopefully he can prescribe some of that

Yes, must protect that cornea! It's a daily nuisance. Feeling like something is "stuck" in there, and the weight of the weight is burdensome. I don't worry about bad hair days, I worry about bad EYE days! Will look at having some corrective eye procedures in the future, but now still working on the face........

I have dry spots on the cornea, but everything is status quo.

Went to the ocuplastic surgeon just the other day, and he plucked a couple of ingrown eyelashes, which may also be causing some irritation.
(I had the eye half stitched shut for  about 4 months, so that may be part of the ingrown hairs issue)
Anyway,  hope this helps.
Also try to rest the eye during the day. Closed eye, nap kind of situation I like the best
Maureen

[Kaybo]

Weights are great but they do not completely solve all eye problems - just cut down on them!  You must still be diligent about keeping drops/ointment in your eye.  If mine gets "pink" I just put solve more Refresh PM in it.  If it gets "red" and the extra Refresh doesn't help overnight, I know I better get to the Dr.  I have lashes that grow toward my eye also - I try to watch this and get them myself, but sometimes I have to go to Dr. for him to get them.  All this just kind of becomes a way of life - not troublesome at all (I've been doing it 13 years).  What ointment is your husband using?  I have never heard of ointment becoming "grainy?"

K   

[mandy721]

  What ointment is your husband using?  I have never heard of ointment becoming "grainy?"
K   

With clarification frommy  husband he said  it isn't grainy, but that the RefreshPm  congeals into little clusters by the morning and he needs to wash them away!!

[nancyann]

Hi Laura Lynn:  A few days ago my eye started burning (again).  I went to the ophtholmologist & once again my cornea is getting dry:  I have to use the lubricant every 1-2 hours, 'force blink' since my eye doesn't blink even with the weight.   I still use the NITEYE bubble bandage every night.
This seems to be occuring every 4 months or so.   
He also removed an eyelash growing the wrong way (like Kay I remove these myself also). 
My eye also gets red every morning (not sure if it's b/c of my Rosaceae - both eyes do get bloodshot in the am & during the day).   It's when I feel the burning/grainey feeling that I worry - but it reminds me to 'force blink' & use more lubricant.

Always good thoughts,  Nancy

[Rc Moser]

I had the gold weight, I wish I would of just got the stick on's, 4 to 6 thousand dollars later over a two month period the weight had to come out, but then my eye was starting to respond. It may of helped But IMO wasn't worth the cost for the short time it was in. I guess if you eye wasn't responding, wired open, and not going to improve then I would consider it. I think Dr's talk people into it by saying it won't be seen and will releave you eye initiation. My experience was it didn't, it added another problem, and didn't stop the amount of eye drops I had to put in or the grease at the time at night for the two to maybe three months I had it in. Not only did I have to pay for it to be installed Had to pay for it removal.

I would try the stick on on the outside of the eye lid first and then if my eye will not recover after a few months, Then I would consider the implant?

[Jeanlea]

Laura Lynn,

I also have a gold eye weight.  A couple of months after getting the eye weight, my eye got really red.  It was caused by an infection.  I ended up using medicated ointment and a liquid antibiotic.  I ended up with a little bit of coreal scarring, but  it has held steady for the past three years now.  I think this happened because I did not keep it as lubricated as I should have.  Anytime it gets pink now is for that reason.  I solve it by putting in PM Refresh.  In the morning I "rinse out" the ointment by putting in a liguid eye drop.  (I'm currently using Optive.  Can't find Liquigel in the big containers anymore.)  Over the years I have noticed that there is a "pink" eye color and in really bad cases it gets red.  It may also get itchy, but I can't feel so I  don't know.  Have your eye doctor make sure you have no infection.  Lubrication is so important.

Jean