Eyeseals 4.0 Sleep Mask – Charcoal – Moisturizing Eye Masks for Sleep Keep Dry Air Out – Latex-Free Eye Mask Great for CPAP Users​

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.

Fits well. I use a CPAP machine and was surprised at how well the two work together. It's a bit awkward to get on together but once you do, it seems to work just fine. I have washed it (per instructions) with gentle soap (baby shampoo) and they seem a bit "sticky" now, but I can't really remember if they were that way before I did. Silicone can be a bit "sticky" and it does seem to help them adhere to your eye sockets. People have mentioned that the headband seems to stretch and perhaps they made that comment it's been changed. The headband I got was two pieces of elastic attached to some fabric in the middle. If it does stretch, I don't see why I couldn't replace it with something else fairly easily. People have also mentioned how it "marks" their face. I haven't seen this issue.

I've had a lifelong issue with dry eyes, but a few years ago we moved to the high desert for work. I was OK for a while with eye drops and "toughing it out," but possibly because I've been doing a lot more computer work since the pandemic, the pain and suffering had become much worse. I'm talking want-to-gouge-my-eyes-out-sometimes, giving-up-my-job-to-move-to-the-humid-coast level.I tried lots of things: "vitamin" supplements specifically designed for the eyes (no effect), dry eye gel at night (sticks the eyes shut and not helpful) or humidifiers (only partially effective, and lead to mold and mineral deposits everywhere), eye massagers (ineffective, my glands work fine), drops and gels during the day (they help, but need to be reapplied constantly, are expensive, burn when they go in, and don't completely work), a half a dozen different types of sleep masks (didn't fit, were expensive, or didn't work), and what worked best prior to this product: Glad Press'n'Seal while sleeping.That worked the best, BUT 1) it's a little bit of a hassle to apply and remove, and makes getting up and going to the bathroom at night more difficult and dangerous when you're older, and more importantly 2) because it's essentially glued over your eye sockets your eyes will rub against it during Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, so I'd wake up with red, irritated eyes, like someone had wiped them with a dry cloth - MUCH better than dry eyes, but not ideal. If you can't afford the goggles, or are wary, get the Glad. It beats 90% of the stuff out there.But then I bought these sleep goggles. It's only been a few days, so I don't know how long they last (others warn about that, but if they DO break I already have a backup mask I can stick the eye sockets into, as another reviewer explained) - but this is a lifesaver.Now I wake up, and throughout the day, feel like a normal person again, like I did before moving to the damned desert. I have no pain or redness in my eyes (except toward the end of a long day - I still live in the damned desert). My eyes feel properly lubricated upon waking and throughout the day - without drops. I don't need drops immediately upon waking. Now I feel I can handle years or decades more of life in the damned desert. Now I feel I can handle life again.It's hard to express how much suffering had built up, and how much I was tolerating - and how it's almost all now gone, suddenly, in just the last week. I've had ups and downs for the past two years - sometimes it improved with some product or vacation in a humid area, then got worse again. But now, it's like I've woken up from a nightmare of tortured imprisonment, where I was shouldering a burden that no one else had but that was slowly killing me - and I didn't even know it was a nightmare. Or escaped from a maze where I thought the only exit was death itself.I thought nothing would work. I balked at the $60 cost (which is a ripoff for silicone goggles, but worth it for even a few months without pain - and again, if they break I can continue using them by fitting them into another mask). They look funny, and you can't see through them well enough to use while awake (but then again, you don't need to). But I wish I had bought them years ago, when my eyes really started hurting.I've been given a new lease on life. I can live again. I sound like I'm joking, but I'm dead serious. If you have dry eyes, get them.