Stye on my eyelid

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I have a growth on my eyelid which isn't a stye. It's almost like a skin tag growing along the tear line on the upper eyelid. The optician picked up on it and set me to get it tested a few years ago. No one I saw was the least concerned unless it stopped me seeing properly. I still don't even know what it is and I'm not convinced anyone else does either. I wouldn't even bother with a GP anymore if I could help it. All mine ever do is send me to someone else to find out what's happening.

I think that’s what I’ve got. The pharmacist didn’t know what it was (and was a bit grumpy) and just told me to see my doctor. I might phone my optician tomorrow and see if they’ll look at it. I don’t know if I dare wear make up and don’t want to contaminate the new mascara I bought recently( it was quite expensive). I don’t wear make up these days except when I look after my youngest grandchildren as I don’t want to scare them with my un made up face!

I always keep some of that in my fridge. It’s like the Spanish Inquisition trying to get it from the pharmacy though! I did put some on last night.

Chloramphenicol ointment from the pharmacy is something I’ve used in the past. I believe it is an antibiotic. Please check with pharmacist.

DH is picking up some things from a nearby Boots tomorrow but they’ve closed down their pharmacy! I’ll have to go to another one.

You really don’t need a doctor or nurse for a stye a pharmacist is the correct person to see but it’s probably not a stye as they are very very painful I went though a couple of years as a teenager getting boils and styles ( pguess it was changing hormones) but I can remember the pain every time I blinked

My optician diagnosed a painless lump on my eyelid as a chalazion. It wasn’t a stye. (Styes are painful.) She wrote me a note to attend A&E eye department of our city hospital. Everything was checked over.
A doctor recommended that I bathed my eye 3x a day with a very mild solution of Johnson’s Baby shampoo( one part shampoo to 10parts warm water). I was shown how to do this. I was also given eye drops to use over 6 weeks and the chalazion almost disappeared.
Was told it was caused by a blocked duct.
Another treatment suggested was for the blockage to be removed from under the eyelid….but I didn’t want that! (Sorry…not for the squeamish!)

I just wish the surgery would have said more than just ‘go to a pharmacy’. I’m going to put hot flannels on it for a couple of days and show it to the nurse when I have my pneumonia jab. I’ll be stuck in a room with him or her so there’s no escape! It just isn’t like the practice that I used to know. My dogs got a small lump that I’m monitoring and I think that, in the early hours of the morning it just got to me.

I have a growth on my eyelid which isn't a stye. It's almost like a skin tag growing along the tear line on the upper eyelid. The optician picked up on it and set me to get it tested a few years ago. No one I saw was the least concerned unless it stopped me seeing properly. I still don't even know what it is and I'm not convinced anyone else does either. I wouldn't even bother with a GP anymore if I could help it. All mine ever do is send me to someone else to find out what's happening.

MayBee70 let the pharmacist look at it as styes are painful so this could be a small cyst.

The hospital where my dd works in A&E sends people with styes to the optician.

It’s not painful at all. Looks more like a skin tag or a blister.It just freaked me out a bit as my eyesight is rubbish these days and I only noticed it when I looked in a magnifying mirror late last night.

The gold ring worked on mine when I was a child. I had one stye after another.

If it's not painful, then it could be a chalazion, which was diagnosed by a practice nurse. I'd never heard of such a thing, and apparently neither had she! The homeopathic remedy hepar sulph helped considerably, but it did last about a week.

I used to get styles as a child, and mother used to rub a gold ring on them!!!! It worked for some reason. She used to say that it was what her mother did. It may have been the rubbing that dispersed them, I don’t know.

My grandmother had an old fashioned remedy for styes, pimples and boils etc which is to spit on them! Particularly first thing in the morning with your fasting spit. It sounds revolting but it works. I just used it to get rid of a painful boil that was coming up in a very intimate place. Within hours I could feel that the swelling was going down. I was told that your spit contains some chemicals from your immune system which is probably why it works.

When I was a kid, I was told to "strike a stye with gold" - in other words rub it with something gold like a wedding ring. And that's why Golden Eye Ointment works so well too! But using your wedding ring is cheaper.........

You could try Golden Eye Ointment. It’s old fashioned but has always worked for me.

You will definitely know if it is a stye as they are very painful! I have a lump under my eye which definitely isn’t a stye as it isn’t painful. The pharmacist is my first port of call these days as I’ve given up even trying to contact our surgery.

It is not the thing one needs to see a doctor or nurse about as it can be sorted at home. As tanith said, a warm compress usually does the trick and brings any purulent fluid to the surface.

What tanith said. I can’t count how many I had as a child but that’s what my mum did.

The pharmacist can confirm its a stye and a warm compress will help draw it out. You don't get anti biotics for a stye or need to see the GP unless it lingers on more than 10 days or so.