EyeEco Eyeseals 4 0 Sleep Mask Charcoal Moisturizing Eye Masks for Sleep Keep Dry Air Out and Moisture

Comfortable. Seals well. Works as I need it to. I actually bought this to address ocular hypertension that is exacerbated by side sleeping. There are medical studies about it, and the use of goggles to try to prevent pressing your face (and thus lower eye...) into the pillow while side sleeping. The study I read showed 2x-4x increase in internal eye pressure due to this while, and googles used in the study (not EyeSeals, but no product was named) nearly eliminated it. Eye pressure rises at night naturally due to being horizontal, but preventing mashing your eye into the pillow greatly addresses the huge spikes in pressure that were seen in the study. The EyeSeals trap a decent amount of moisture in them, which is their designed purpose. I've not found a downside to that, even though my eyes close fully and I don't require this capability. The googles do leave a light imprint from pressing on my face, but it is nothing like, say, swim goggles. I don't tighten the EyeSeals all that tight. And the imprint is gone after 30 min or so after getting up. I clean the goggles daily using a dab of handsoap and water. Rinse them well. Drying can be a problem if the towel I use sheds any lint at all, because the EyeSeals are a bit tacky. EyeSeals seem to run large, so keep that in mind. I'm a 6'4" guy and they would be a problem for even me if they were a bit larger. But they work well for me as is. Anyway, hope it achieves what I need, because glaucoma (retina/optic nerve damage from high eye pressure) is a big deal. Cross fingers, I'm okay so far. But I came across this potential issue from sleeping and hope the EyeSeals do the job. The proof will be at my next eye checkup. I'll tell my doctor about the goggles and see what he thinks. UPDATE: The fully sealed nature of the goggles would result in increased air pressure against the eye if, say, I pressed my eye against the pillow while side sleeping. It was pressure that I could notice and try to prevent while conscious, but once asleep it would happen for an unknown period of time. Not good for a guy trying to eliminate external pressure against the eye. Solution: I used a leather punch -- the kind for putting holes in belts -- to punch a small hole in each lens. I first tried using a small drill, but the material is too flexible for that to work well. The punch appears to have worked great. It's an inexpensive punch you can buy here on Amazon or many other places. I've been using the goggles with the vent holes for a week now. It completely prevents the air-pressure issue. Surprisingly, it appears to have not lowered the moisture content in the goggles by any appreciable amount. I still have dripping condensation in each eye cup in the morning. So if this idea appeals to you to reduce eye pressure but you are concerned about losing moisture, well, in my case that has not been a problem. YMMV. Read more

These just don’t work consistently. When they work, they are terrific. But they stretch somehow and get loose most nights. Maybe because I move onto my side, but I don’t actually notice that I do that. I only know that they are terribly expensive to buy and still wake up unable to open my eyes. They are not breaking as I am super careful with tightening the straps, but they are already useless after only one week. Update: I have figured out that if I can keep the headgear in place, these glasses are awesome and working for me every night. You do have to be careful how you tighten them. When they get too loose I will try shortening the strap in the back to see if I can get a few months out of them. I changed the rating because they do work really well if you can get them to stay on without shifting. Not really good for side sleepers. But my eyes were so bad and there aren’t a lot of choices for see-through sleep glasses; I really wanted these to work. Read more

I've bought at least 10 of these masks over the past few years, from the vendor directly and from amazon. The good: I've tried, I think, all the sleep masks on the market for my severe dry eye disease. This is head and shoulders above the others. It fits well, the seal is snug, it's extremely comfortable, added bonus of light blocking if you choose a darker color and you like that, is compatible with CPAP, works whether you are a back or a side sleeper. I wake up often during the night and it's easy to get on and off. Moisture forms in the cups and that's a wonderful thing for someone like me. Not so good: The masks wear out after a couple of months at the most. The silicone somehow stretches, so the fit isn't tight, and sometimes it splits, at the nose or at the sides. The strap stretches too (although I see they offer replacement straps now) but usually, the silicon stretching and wrap stretching happen in the same 6-8 week time frame so a new strap would not help. I follow the cleaning instructions to the T and I treat my mask like a soft and delicate flower (it's how I feel about it). I love them so much, I shell out the (now) $65 every couple of months and I charge it to my HealthCare Flex dollars account with a bit of wincing. So do I wish the company would have some kind of send your stretched out one back, get another one half off program? Oh yes I do! But even without that, and with the recent price increase, I will continue to buy them because if you have severe dry eye disease, this is the best thing on the market, hands down. Buy it. Your eyes will thank you. Read more

My eye doctor recommended this mask for dry eye aggravated by CPAP use. I found the price to be rather high, but I’m willing to pay that if it works and gives me some relief. This mask is rather rigid and didn’t fit properly across the bridge of my nose leaving gaps no matter how I tried to adjust it. Tighter, looser, placing it up higher or lower, it didn’t make a difference. I woke up in the middle of the night with my eyes drier than they’ve ever been. The skin around my eyes was moist, but my eye balls were very dry and uncomfortable and I had to get up and use eye drops. In the morning I had bags under my eyes where fluid had settled from the pressure of the mask on my face, similar to under eye bags I’ve experienced with some types of CPAP masks. This is just a no go for me and I will stick to my silk sleep mask which works better for me. The silk type of sleep mask seems to put subtle pressure on my eyes, keeping my lids closed. Read more