chronic eye pain – Dr. Cremers

Scleral Lenses: Why do some patients LOVE them and some HATE them? The role of the Glycocalyx –the next frontier in Dry Eye/Eye pain treatments

May 26, 2020

Scleral Lenses have been used for years to treat patients with chronic eye pain and/or chronic dry eye. Doctors and surgeons often see that some patients do really well with Scleral Lenses while others really cannot tolerate them. Why is there this difference? Scleral Lens is on right above. It likely relates to many factors: 1. […]

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Stress and Chronic Eye Pain

A dear friend sent me this link to note the reality of how stress can trigger unwanted cascades of inflammation. Many patients I see are under enormous amounts of stress. Why some patients can adapt while others have severe consequences likely depends on multiple factors from severity of the stress to family support to genetics