I am about 18 months post gastric bypass surgery. For about the last three months I have developed a condition where one or both of my eyes sting between 5 and 7 pm each evening for a period of about five minutes. At first, I thought perhaps I had something on my hands and I had touched my eyes and it had caused them to sting, however it happens without touching my eyes.

It's the same kind of sensation as having sweat in your eyes. However, I'm not sweating.

One thing that I have noticed is that in the evenings if I touch my forehead my skin feels very oily. So I do wonder if perhaps my eyelids could also be getting oily and therefore getting the oil onto my eyeballs. I have tried eyedrops for Dry eyes but they don't seem to work. The only relief I get is actually by rubbing my eyes, which when I was growing up my parents told me not to rub my eyes. But it does seem to give me a relief and it seems to make the sting go away faster.

Has anyone else experienced anything like this?

Do you just have dry tear ducts ? Do you work in air con all day ? My doctor says to put a clean cloth into boiling water and when you can stand the heat at its hottest put it over your eyes. It is supposed to unblock the ducts. It worked for us

Have you spoken to your GP? Or maybe see an optometrist who’ll do some checks on the health of your eye. You may have an infection or allergy. Just throwing out suggestions.

I have an appointment with my seurgeon in about 3 days time so will talk to him about it and see if this is something he has seen before.