Posted by Racer on July 6, 2005, at 17:47:08
In reply to Re: question about contact lenses » gardenergirl, posted by Tamar on July 5, 2005, at 19:07:56
> Haven't been crying so much recently, but it seems my skin has become sensitive to crying. I cried nearly every day when I was pregnant. Fortunately, things have settled down since having the baby. But I'm crying more than I used to before I was depressed. Good advice.
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> Thanks, GG.
>(Sorry, feeling silly today...)
It may be that you're not more sensitive to crying these days -- but you are more sensitive to what you dab your eyes with. That happened to me last year: I'd get horrible red swelling and pain and itching around my eyes after crying in marriage counseling. Once I started carrying my handkerchief, though, it stopped. (Took a while to calm the skin down, by the way. Probably a couple of months.)
A couple of other things that helped me, by the way, were lying down on the sofa, with a damp cloth over my eyes when they were particularly bad. Cucumber slices helped, too, with a damp cloth over them.
Hope something here helps. I know there's not much worse than icky eye problems for me -- even just dry eyes can be so irritating I can't do much of anything until I do something about it.
(And ain't it funny how we always have problems with that "doesn't apply to me" thing? It's a joke for me, now, because it comes up so often!)
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