I had my eyes checked 5 months ago. They are very very dry,painful, and burning. I have been checked for various illnesses that cause dry eyes like mine, but have come back clear. Not even artificial tears help most of the time,as they are too dry & also feel burning and cracked. That is why I said it feels like the eyelid sticks on to the eyeball sometimes.

The spasms are worse when I am tired. What bothered me the most and one of the main reason I posted is that it was only happening in one eye and now the spasms are in both. I have asked different people I work with and everyone says that they have had spasms to verying degrees when tired, but not in both eyes.

This is a dry eye forum I belong to and maybe you can get some answers here.

http://www.dryeyezone.com/talk/index.php?

and this is the Sjogrens forum, they have a section just for eyes :

http://www.sjogrensworld.org/

Billye

neurontin or something like that? It's rare, but it can cause or aggravate that symptom. I only ask, because 'Twitching' is an effect of neurontin - when I was on it, it was a noticable [to me] problem. Once I changed to another med the problem disappeared. [It was so bad I had to change neuro's to change med]

As for little eye twitches - before I'd PN, one of my eyes would start tiny involuntary shudders if I'd read way too much [which I used to have to do for my job]. Rest seemed to be the only cure there. Do they both twitch at once? Or do they take turns...That's the kind of thing a good eye doc would probably ask..

Other than drops, only thing I can think of is a moist compress for the dry eyes, but, you've had the benefit of Billye's knowledge. I've used the compresses & drops when my allergies [several of them] kick in.

Hang in there - really good thoughts always - j

No I do not take neurontin. But I will look at the links Silverlady has sent me. Thank you both.

the idea in my fuzzy brain! My back is spazzing - it's a spot from a very old muscle sprain...I sure hope discussion didn't wake it up! I feel like a marionette with one overactive string!

If it keeps up, I should be ready for Halloween & won't need a costume!

I think I'm laughing here? - j