Originally Posted by
UNDGUY
Thanks for the advice. I have been to three optometrists and an opthamologist and none of them have mentioned the punctal plugs. I will have to mention it to my optometrist and see what she knows about them. The opthamologist that I went to did say there was a surgery that could correct my dry eyes, he may have been speaking of the punctal surgery. I'll just have to save my flight instructor paychecks for the next 20 years to pay for it.
Punctal plugs are not surgery. I had them. They are tiny "corks" that plug the drains in your lower eye lid. You can see this drain if you look at you lower eye lid near the inside corner. You can see a little tiny hole. They shove the punctal plug in there and there it stays. It works by retaining the little tears your eye makes. If you do some Google searches for Punctal plugs you will learn more about them than you ever wanted to know.
