So, I had to take my bp in to the vet today and had him look at her eyes while I was there. She likes really high humidity (as in, will turn over her water bowl everywhere if it's not high enough) so I keep the humidity in her cage around 80-85%, but she still has dents in her eye scales. When she sheads, I can find the piece from her head and the eye caps are there...but it's been at least 5 sheads and she'll still get dented eye caps even at 80% + humidity levels. The vet said that retained caps can in effect "stack" up, so while she always sheads one, there may have been two that were old. (make sense?) He reccommended getting "natural tear" eyedrops (like at walmart) and trying that to keep her eyes moist, so hopefully she can shead ALL the ones that might be stacked up. I was just wondering if any of yall had any other suggestions? If the vet has to try and remove them, (not to mention the cost...) he said he'd prob. have to use a needle to try and flake the old caps off. (He said he hates doing this because he's always concerned about sticking the needle into the eye instead of just old caps, but also said that he's gotten up to 7 old caps off one eye at one time.) I'm of course gonna try the eyedrops first, but don't want to have to resort to the vet going at my girl's eye with a needle....

Thanks in advance for your help!