There is something called Sicca Syndrome (it is also called Sicca Complex sometimes).

Essentailly, Sicca Syndrome is what they call Sjogrens-type of dryness in patients who test negative for Sjogrens (although many doctors think that "sicca syndrome" is just another name for sjogrens, officially it is the term that is supposed to be used for patients with all the dryness symptoms of sjogrens that have negative sjogrens testing).

I have been diagnosed with Sicca Syndrome for several years now. According to the literature I have read and the information my doctor has given me - Sicca often occurs in patients who have some type of Connective Tissue Disease.

My sicca causes a lot of dryness of my eyes, and the dryness causes muslce twitching in the muscles near and behind my eyes, extra blinking, pain that feels like someone is sticking a pin in my eye, vision blurring, and other vision and eye strange/weird/annoying symptoms.

For me, the best treatment is to use natural tears eye drops several times during the day. It's important that the eye drops are the naturla tears kind so that they do not contain preservatives. It helps me a lot to use the drops on a regular basis, and when I forget to use them my symptoms increase immediately.

Here is a link to the kind I use -
http://www.walgreens.com/store/produ...id=prod1107567#



Hope that helps,
Liz