Comments on: doxycycline and eye surface repair http://rosacea-support.org/doxycycline-and-eye-surface-repair.html Where the rosacea community meets to support each other Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:35:58 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Serge http://rosacea-support.org/doxycycline-and-eye-surface-repair.html/comment-page-1#comment-31283 Serge Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:31:49 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/doxycycline-and-eye-surface-repair.html#comment-31283 I'm 40, male, and had two corneal tears when I was age 38. Both corneal tears occurred in the early morning upon waking when my eyelid stuck to and tearing the cornea of my right eye. I had been diagnosed earlier with rosacea at age 37. After the second corneal tear incident, I asked my dermatologist, with my opthamologist's okay, to put me on 100mg of doxcycline a day. After starting the dox regimen, the doxcycline put a stop to the corneal erosion with no further corneal tears. Furthermore, symptoms associated with rosacea, including the "eye grittiness" sensation, have ceased. No side effects except for sun sensitivity. I get sun burned very easily. I will stay on dox for the rest of my life. I believe that as an MMP inhibitor and anti-inflammatory, the doxcycline should also help inhibit the onset of wet macular degeneration and arthritis in my later years. So, I feel that the corneal tears were a blessing in disguise. I’m 40, male, and had two corneal tears when I was age 38. Both corneal tears occurred in the early morning upon waking when my eyelid stuck to and tearing the cornea of my right eye.

I had been diagnosed earlier with rosacea at age 37. After the second corneal tear incident, I asked my dermatologist, with my opthamologist’s okay, to put me on 100mg of doxcycline a day.

After starting the dox regimen, the doxcycline put a stop to the corneal erosion with no further corneal tears. Furthermore, symptoms associated with rosacea, including the “eye grittiness” sensation, have ceased.

No side effects except for sun sensitivity. I get sun burned very easily.

I will stay on dox for the rest of my life. I believe that as an MMP inhibitor and anti-inflammatory, the doxcycline should also help inhibit the onset of wet macular degeneration and arthritis in my later years. So, I feel that the corneal tears were a blessing in disguise.

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