Dry eye is hell especially if you work at a computer.
As an aside, Ocusoft Retaine drops are the best thing I’ve found for dry eye; I’ve never met anyone else with the problem who uses them but it’s like night and day.
For anyone reading this who manages their dry eye with eye drops, please do some reading or see a specialist. If all you do is use eye drops, your dry eye will likely get worse.
Eye drops bolster your tear film and help prevent desiccating stress to the eye surface, but they lack growth factors and other important compounds found in biological tears, and can even contribute to washing those away.
Last, whatever you do, don't use eye drops with preservatives (e.g. benzalkonium chloride).
Good advice to check, of course, but my friend that has chronic dry eye from Lasik was basically told it's a lifetime of drops for her now.
In the case above, I'm referring to my spouse. Her entire family has this problem - dry eye, frequent / continuous corneal erosions - setting in by their mid-late thirties. These are the people who end up wearing sleeping goggles, ointment, taping their lids shut, etc. It's not a lack of tear production, it's poor corneal basement layer adhesion for some undiagnosed reason and, probably, eyelids drifting open during sleep.
See this https://www.reddit.com/r/lasik/comments/cfxewr/how_to_fix_dr...