The Pathogenesis of Idiopathic Dry Eyes

Females aged 18 yrs or older in the community or seen in Kellogg Eye Center will be offered enrollment into the study.

Inclusion Criteria:

Healthy Controls:

Female over the age of 18, No symptoms of dry eyes, Must be able to read text on the computer screen and understand English, and not have a physical impairment that prevents you from completing a paper and pencil questionnaire or using a tablet computer

Fibromyalgia:

Female over the age of 18, No symptoms of dry eyes, Been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, Must be able to read text on the computer screen and understand English, and not have a physical impairment that prevents you from completing a paper and pencil questionnaire or using a tablet computer

Dry Eye:

Female over the age of 18, have symptoms of dry eyes, Must be able to read text on the computer screen and understand English, and not have a physical impairment that prevents you from completing a paper and pencil questionnaire or using a tablet computer

Exclusion Criteria:

Pregnant or breast feeding, use of medicated eye drops in last month (Artificial tears ok), diagnosis of autoimmune or rheumatologic disease (e.g. rheumatoid arthritis, crohn's disease, lupus, multiple sclerosis, etc), heart condition requiring daily medications (e.g. angina, congestive heart failure), COPD or asthma requiring daily inhalers (rescue inhalers ok), history of cancer in the past 2 years (skin cancer is ok), use of oral antihistamine medications (e.g. benadryl, claritin, clarinex, zyrtec, allegra, etc), use of oral anticholinergic medications (e.g. scopolamine, ditropan, detrol, ipratropium, etc)