Dry eye syndrome: What actually works?

Hey everyone!

I'm posting for a friend who’s struggling with chronic dry eye syndrome. She’s cycled through basically every brand of drops and artificial tears on the market, but nothing seems to touch it.

Her doctor just suggested she try The Notebook spray. We can't find it anywhere locally, though. Has anyone here actually used it? Is it really such a game-changer compared to the standard stuff, and does anyone know a reliable place to pick some up?

Thanks in advance! 🙂

My ophthalmologist put me on Cornere Gel, and honestly? It’s lightyears ahead of any of those standard drops I’ve wasted money on before. I’m dealing with the exact same dry eye syndrome (keratoconjunctivitis sicca)

My mom deals with this exact same syndrome, and she uses Systane eye drops to manage it.

I’ve been using Johnson & Johnson for years—they do the job just fine. But then there’s this friend of mine who supposedly suffers from "dry eyes" so intensely that she was in constant pain—to the point where she cycled through 15 different specialists, from ophthalmologists and neurologists to ENT doctors and even those "alternative medicine" types. None of these supposed experts could help her, despite the mountain of eye drops she burned through, until they finally decided her issue was actually a "serotonin deficiency." Now she's on a cocktail of antidepressants and anti-epileptics.🤷 She’s feeling better now, I guess, but at the cost of being on medication indefinitely.