Ok, you say that you have dry eyelids, have you ever asked your doctor if you're producing enough tears in your eyes? I was recently diagnosed with this after having dry eye lids. I thought that I had an infection or something, so I went to my eye doctor, I was waking up in the morning and my eyes were so dry that I couldn't harldly open them up, and they were so uncomfortable, and it would seem as if something was inside my eyes all the time. My eye doctor examined me and told me about my eyes not producting tears, he then gave me a lot of samples and a prescription for these eye drops, I have to put them in twice a day, my eyes feel so much better. But I will always have to use these drops, but my eyes feel better. (just a thought)

Hiya. My eyes get itchy on the eyelids at times. I scratch and then end up with an eyelash in my eye. Aloe vera juice is a natural antiinflammatory ,very soothing and cooling,and best kept in the fridge. You could bathe your eye with a cotton swab or give yourself and eyewash with it.

I got chronic dry eye when I slammed into meno, I tried Restasis but it didn't really help. I can take Vitamin E and it helps but not everyone can take that. Still I have to put artificial tears in at least 4 times an hour. Without the E, I could just hook up some kind of eyeball I.V.

I don't know if hydrating your eyes from the inside would help with the outside of your lids or not. Just use plain tears, no allergy concoctions, allergy stuff will make it worse.

do you have this problem all the time or just in the spring/summer. Is it possibly an allergy?

THANK YOU LADIES FOR ALL THE REPLIES. THEY HAVE BEEN HELPFUL. I DID TRY DROPS IN THE EYES, BUT NO RELIEF TO THE DRYNESS ON MY EYELIDS. I DO HAVE THIS SOMEWHAT ALL YEAR ROUND, BUT ALOT WORSE IT SEEMS THIS TIME OF YEAR. SO I'M THINKING PERIMENO MIGHT BE ON TO SOMETHING. I HAVE ONLY HAD THIS PROBLEM FOR THE PAST 2 YRS. I GO TO MY GYN ON THE 6TH SO I'LL BE SURE TO GET SOME ANSWERS. AGAIN THANK YOU LADIES. GOD BLESS.

good luck at your appointment. Let us know how it goes.
My son gets really red itchy eyelids. we got a prescription called patenol from the allergy doc and it helped a lot.

After posting this unusual symptom on countless menopausal web sites, I FINALLY found someone else who is complaining of dry, itchy, scaly eyelids. We must be in the smallest minority for this symptom, and I thought I was the only menopausal woman out there with this. The condition has been making my life miserable for the last three years. My eyes were always my best feature, and this has definitely made me not only physically ill, but quite depressed. At first I thought it was an allergy, though I never had allergies in my life. After countless visits to the dermotologists, who could do nothing but give me increasingly stronger creams that did nothing, I went to an accupuncturist. The acupuncture did little if nothing to alleviate the condition, but I was recommended some herbs that, truly, made all the difference. After about a week of taking Chinese herbs called Three Immortals, Modified Er Xian Plus, from a company called Health Concerns, my horrid itching improved. It was like a miracle. That was a year ago, and I continue to take the herbs. When I forget to do so, after a couple of days, the condition starts up again. I know dry eye is another symptom, but I never had that....just this incredible itching on the lids. Had to wake up each night about 10 times to rub vitamin E oil on my eyelids, just to alleviate the pain. Anyway, the herbs may not work for you, but it is worth a try. They are available on line. Just do a search. If I can help any other woman (and there seems to be just a few of us) with this condition, I would be happy. My menopause has been the PITS and this is just one of the many ailments I have suffered because of it (though it is the worse one!) Good luck to you my dear. Let me know if you have any other questions and I will share my experiences.

THANK YOU GIANNA7. IT SOUNDS LIKE EXACTLY WHAT I SUFFER FROM. YES IT IS PAINFUL. I WILL BE SURE TO TRY AND GET THOSE HERBS. THANK YOU FOR THE GREAT INFO. TAKE CARE AND GOD BLESS.

Please let me know if the herbs help you. There are not many of us that suffer from the dry and itchy eyelid condition, if the internet is any indication. This is really quite a rare menopause symptom, but it defintely exists and can drive you crazy. Keep in touch and let me know if the herbs work. God bless you too. Gianna

Ok, I feel any better that I read all te replies that you ladies have posted, cause my eyes have been bothering me for a couple of months before I finally went to the eye doctor. I also take Restasis for my dry eye, don't really know if its working or not, it seems to be a little better but I also use a lot of artificial tears too.

I never thought that this could be related to menopause, but after reading you guys everythings seems to be getting more brighter. This menopause thing is pretty bad, too many bad things in your body changes (sad). But I'm going to read more on the herb that Gianna7 is referring to, that is a thought.

The interesting thing is, from a scientific viewpoint, not all women have the same symptoms or even suffer from menopause. I actually know many women who had no symptoms at all....they barely noticed their period stopped!!!! As for me, I am the poster child of a horrid perio-menopause and menopause. I had the most horrific bleeding for at least 7 years. Then, when that finally stopped I was beset with all sorts of horrid symptoms, the worst being the creepy-crawly itch all over my body, as well as this horrid eyelid problem (not to speak of hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, weight gain (my bra size went from 32 D to 34 F!!!!), and crashing fatigue in the middle of the afternoon. I'm wondering what we all have in common that our menopause is so terrible compared to other women's. Would be interesting to do an informal study. As I said, this is the very first time I ever read that anyone else suffered from the eyelid itch. I used to Google this condition daily to see if anything came up, and it didn't. So this is a pretty rare symptom. Why us? BTW, another great natural cure for depression and anxiety, of which I started to suffer from in menopause, is Sam-E, which I buy from Costco and take diligently each day. It really really helps if you suffer from menopausal depression. Anyway, I am happy to have found some fellow sisters in menopausal suffering. Take care all, and let me know if the herbs help. Gianna

Well Gianna7, this is really weird to read that all of us have a lot of the same symptons and then at the same time some different, and it's cool that we have site like this one to come on and compare all our stories, maybe we can help each other out. But we aren't the only ones, I'm sure that are lots of other women who have not yet found our site, or even sites like this one to chat with other women.

I do not mind trying the herbs, but it seems like many women have told me of so many different ones, so I don't really know which ones to try!! But as I said before I first when into menopause from my partial hysterctomy that I had a number of years ago, but at that time I just started with slight hot flashes and night sweats, but starting last year all the rest of the symptons came about (WoW)! At that time I didn't relate the depression with the menopause, I thought I was just going crazy or something, not thinking of menopause. Then one day as I was having a Bible study with my teacher, she's a lot older than I am, I told her about the depression that I was having, I was crying all day long. As she listened I told her that I had went to see a doctor about the depression and was given some medication to take for it, but it wasn't working, I was at this time crying for every little thing that happened, my 17 year old daugher was at the point where she was scared to leave me alone. So while we were talking, she said to me, "how old are you?" so I told her (at that time I was 44), so she said, Are you sure you aren't going through menopause??

That came to me as a complete shock, "MENOPAUSE" oh no not me!! So she went home and brought me a book about menopause and told me to read it, ok guess what, I thought that the book was written around me!! And yes, it was true, I was going through menopause. Then I went back to my doctor and told him, and he gave me a good talk to. And that's how I found out I was going through menopause. And yes Ginna7, the symptons are horrible, I wish this would be over with, like NOW. But the question that I have is, When is it over with???

I'm so happy to be here and meet all you young ladies on the site and pray that we can be there to help one another. I never thought that the eye dryness was related to menopause either, but I'm still learning.

I just came across this site and am so happy to find it. I am just starting to have menopausal symptoms- flashes etc. and about a month ago I got these very itchy eyelids. I have also never had this before. My eyelids are constantly still itchy ,red,scaly, and somewhat swollen. I haven't done much yet for this other than try not to itch and apply vit E cream. It doesn't seem to help much . I have just developed asthma symptoms that are new and strange to me as I have never had any allergies at all and very healthy lungs.
Tomorrow I plan to go to the pharmacy to get a cream called "Protoptic" .and I also want to get some Chinese herb called Three Immortals, Modified Er Xian Plus, from a company called Health Concerns that Gianna7 recommends here- thanks Gianna,
I will keep you posted as to how it works.
How are your eyelids lately Momshere?

Itchy, dry eyes are another fun symptom of this "lady change"?? I thought I had been developing allergies the last couple years! Hmmm, now I know. I seem to have a Q-tip with me at all times these days!I even got them infected by doin' the rub-em-till-they're- raw thing and had to go to the docs.I've changed my eye make up, used drops, the whole sa-bang.

Hi, I think I may be able to help you with your dry and sore eyelids. Like you, I have spent a fortune on different creams which I thought were working. I got so desperate that I went to my doctor who advised me to use double base gel, which I have now been using for 4-5 months. It really does work and it's not expensive. Plus, it's readily available at most chemists - but do reapply this cream every 4-5 hours.

I'm going to start taking HRT, this will replace the hormone oestrogen which I lost when coming off the pill. The pill contains the hormone oestrogen so I think this is the right thing for me to do, as all my problems seem to have started immediately after coming off the pill 18 months ago.
I did read on a forum that only 16% of menopausal women knew that having dry eyelids is another symptom of the menopause. Also, another article I read stated that this condition really has to be treated or it could lead to an increased risk of infection or visual impairment. I have to say that my eyesight used to give me some concern, but I always put it down to having cream around my eyes.
I hope this will be of some help to you. Don't forget that although this was right for me, it may not necessarily be right for you, so really it's always best to see your doctor.