thank you for sharing your story, Geo!

It does sound like, compared to your symptoms, that my mother may have it much more "mild". I don't think she has flare ups, just the constant dry eyes/mouth.

Have you tried anything like acupuncture? Naturopath?

She actually doesn't have a doctor here; my parents moved back to Canada from Japan 4 years ago and she never bothered getting a doctor here. It's amazing how my father is so open to alternative therapies yet my mother is so dead set against it. She figures conventional medicine can't help her, how could anything else?

Although having said that, she did take to my suggestion of using a neti pot and she loves it. She also was given by my father's optometrist a fish-oil based formulation for moistening eyes and she did comment that she thought her eyes felt better. I will tell her about your success with high-dose fish oil regimen.

Thankfully she's a fitness aficionado so she often goes to the gym for aerobics and weights.

So it does sound like there isn't a whole lot out there for this chronic condition. My heart goes out to you and others who struggle with it on a regular, if not daily, basis. I selfishly hope that this isn't hereditary (though I hear it can be) and that I won't get it.