Hi
I am 3 days short of a year from surgery. My eye has been closing for 6 months, but I have a tear duct plug to prevent the little tears that I have from leaving and I am going in later this week to have the second duct plugged too. I don't cry even when I cut onions, my non-AN eye will water like a fountain but my AN-eye is dry. I use PM refresh ointment at night, drops during the day and sometimes the ointment during the day when my eye is extra dry.
It's not just my eye that is dry, my mouth on that side is drier. At the end of the day (this sounds gross) my teeth on my AN side are gritty & gross like I haven't brushed in a couple days, but only on my AN side. And my nose on that side is drier. Talk about weird things to deal with.
Like everyone else has said, keep your eye moist. Lots of ointment or drops, don't wait for it to feel dry and get in to an opthamologist as soon as you can, they can help prevent damaging your cornea. I didn't know this all of this and ended up scratching my cornea and having to wear a band-aid on my eye lens, I didn't even know they made such a thing.
Jennifer