Everything about dry eye disease is hard.
Think about it. A supermajority of your peers either do not or will not treat it. Worse than that, a significant percentage of ophthalmologists and optometrists still insist that it is not a real disease. At best, this group is willing to concede that patients who have dry eye disease (DED) might be inconvenienced, that DED is a kind of “lifestyle disease” not worthy of true medical intervention. Patients themselves are often flummoxed by the diagnosis, often going to great lengths to find out what is “really” going on before