Some medications might do this. What are you taking?
You might want to get formally evaluated for Sjogren's syndrome.
Not really taking anything. Sometimes I take a vitamin D, propolis and fish oil but there are more days when I don't have them than do. Am prescribed dexamphetamine to treat ADD but don't really want to take them at this point in my life as it ages you faster and I'm not healthy atm.
Has your thyroid been checked? Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis often presents early in adult life and can cause this kind of dryness.
Don't know if iodization of salt is required in Australia, but low thyroid can cause this too.
Don't know what supps you're on, but I'd take a vacation from them entirely to see if this helps. You might list what you've been taking here.
Deficiencies of Vitamin's A, B-Complex, C & E are mentioned in literature. Vitamin A deficiency in particular may be interesting due to your eye trouble.
A lack of essential fatty acids can cause this too. Are you on a well balanced diet? Vegan? Living on carbs/junk food?
Hope you get to the bottom of this soon.
I have had some thyroid levels checked and they were fine, but these were in late august and I don't think I had many of these issues then.
These were done in late August
*Thyroid Stimulating Hormone - 1.79 mU/L
*Free Thyroxine (FT4) - 12.2 pmol/L
*Anti-Thyroglobulin Antibody - <20 IU/mL
*Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Antibody - 11 IU/mL
I just checked, it seems it's not required but the brand we use has iodized salt products as well. Thanks for asking that! Can Iodine deficiency cause all of these issues?
I listed the supplements above. I have also tried some NAC (not the l-cysteine version which I should have bought, I know for next time) but only a few times.
My Active-B12 is 65 pmol/L (the doctor didn't say anything about this level being low but I just looked it up and that's pretty low I think)
25-OH Calciferol level is 43 nmol/L (doc wrote on the results sheet that it can be between 51-250 (nmol/L). See what I don't get is how can someone have 5 times that amount and 51 is still healthy). Also has "?Osteoporosis" written above that level. I'm not sure about the other levels. If they're on this results sheet they aren't written as "Vitamin A", "Vitamin B" etc. Might be a good idea for me to just post the whole sheet if any of you are willing to look over it.
No not a very balanced diet, I don't eat a whole lot of junk food but I skip breakfast.
Thanks for that, I hope I do too. I feel as though a lot of my levels aren't right and I have been recently diagnosed on the autism spectrum (although it took this long to diagnose me so I'm not really sure if I am autistic. I would describe myself as not doing much at all, no symptoms like banging my head against the wall, etc. My life if I am honest has been a real waste as I have never had the proper energy and social intuition to be able to function properly and feel as though I have missed out on the formative years. Interestingly I have stopped smoking weed 42 days ago. I was smoking at max 5 times a day (stoned for the whole day, the type where its hard to talk and do much, I know, very stupid of me to keep going) and that was for over a year and my memory is obliterated, really its gone so I'm not sure what my life is going to be life. I could never handle more than 1 bowl and my memory was always very impoverished for example the second time I smoked I could not comprehend the maths problems we were doing (choline among other things), I know i should have stopped there I just didn't realise how bad it was for me and it made me happy and interested in things in a way I never have naturally. This is how I got onto getting a diagnosis as the weed opened my mind up and that social intuition just came to me, as if my brain was only running at half capacity, not really living just existing. So I'm guessing that's ADD and I guess I would have a leaky gut and some other problems too). I do have some things about me that I don't like the size of (my nose, baby face) that would be from I'm guessing growth hormone.
Other symptoms I forgot to mention were:
*Vertical Diplopia mostly noticeable in the morning and at night which could be from the dry eyes, it's harder to read things like this.
*My sight is blurrier
*Exercised the other day (haven't for a long time) and the bright light on the car dashboard after the workout had these semi-transparent dark shadows that were moving around my center of vision, sort of spiraling in a circular motion that I hadn't noticed before then/
I should have been clearer about the gum disintegration, I didn't mean the gum the tooth is attached to, but chewing gum that disintegrates after 30mins to an hour of chewing. From my reading trying to find more people with this problem I found that there is an actual syndrome for this and can also be caused if the person is aroused or is high on MDMA (never used this). Certain inhibited enzymes can cause this (pretty sure) and might have to do with pesticides as I found a link here that mentioned pesticides inhibiting enzymes (maybe the weed I smoked earlier on, was grown with plant growth regulators as is pretty much all weed grown in aus by either the bikie gangs or Vietnamese gangs who don't care about users health and about how bulky and heavy it is and how much they make (easy to spot as its very orange). I say earlier on as for the last 8 months or so the weed I was smoking was organic and grown with basic garden nutrients and water)
Had an mri a month and a half ago to see if I had any tumors that could be causing the eye issues and headaches and I personally feel that ever since then the dryness has occurred but I can't find much on mris causing this as its only magnetism and produces no radiation. I also didn't have the dye to make the images clearer as I had read it contains heavy metals and I'm 100% sure I already have problems with that.
Sorry if that is a lot to read or it's messy. I wrote a lot more before I made this thread (took 2 hours) to detail everything I could but I didn't think I'd get positive responses or responses at all If I posted it. Thank you.
Took a Fluoroquinolone antibiotic recently?
Just wondering.
Was prescribed an antibiotic a month ago for a cyst I have under my right arm but didn't take them because I read they aren't great for your body.
Thank you for your responses guys, appreciate it.