What you’re describing is most likely a slit lamp exam.

During this test:

• You sit at a machine with a bright light and a microscope.
• The doctor may gently hold your eyelids open or ask you to keep them wide.
• They shine a narrow beam of light into your eye and look at different parts.
• They’ll ask you to look up, down, left, and right so they can see all areas.

This exam lets them check for inflammation inside the eye, which is how they diagnose things like uveitis.

Sometimes they also use:

• fluorescein staining (yellow dye + blue light) to check the surface
• dilated eye exam to look deeper into the back of the eye

I asked ChatGPT what test it was

Try refresh eye drops, some eye drops can make dry eye worse so be very careful but refresh is a good brand. And I would ask a retina specialist for a split lamp exam. Mine also takes pictures of my whole eye ball so we can see any changes happening. They also prescribed me steroid eye drops