Eye Stye
 

I had a stye on the bottom eyelid of my right eye, so I left it but did the whole hot compress every day and eventually the head on it burst (sorry if your eating while reading this!) and it has left a inflamed red bump just on the outside of my bottom eyelid.

So I went to the doctors and was prescribed some antibiotic treatment to use, however 2 days on and it looks the same and I have an awful feeing it's not going to budge that easily.

I have read that it could take months to go on it's own, does anybody have any other remedies I could try if the antibiotics don't work, I've tried the hot compress and the rubbing of the gold ring.... I just want it gone :confused:

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some concealer and the art of misdirection to lure people's gaze away from the offending eye :D

sorry, thats all i've got.

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My granny was a bit of a backyard medicine woman and I remember (probably because it is so weird) that the treatment for a sty was urine! I kid you not. :eek:

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Yes I'm thinking of a Mike Tyson facial tatt just to divert attention......:D

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Desperate times call for desperate measures.... might leave it a few more days before I resort to that....:rofl:

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technically thats more frontyard than backyard. :D

i imagine it worked because you would just make absolutely sure you avoided getting styes, so that someone didnt piss in your face

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Ha ha, I quickly googled it and it does come up on "alternative" medicine websites. So granny wasnt the only nutter ;)

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:rofl::goodpost::rofl:

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I think I remember my mum rubbing her wedding ring on styes when I was a nipper. Try gold? Eggs chopped up in a cup? - that seems to be a cure all remedy.

Sorry - just noticed you already tried gold - what about witch hazel?

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Is she related to Polly?

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You could just wait for nature to take it's course and in the meantime disguise it.

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Or even use the cheaper version.
No-one will suspect you have a stye.

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Sorry I haven't got any suggestions but thanks to the answers for giving me a laugh this afternoon! We've just had a burst pipe in the front garden which if we hadn't been home could have ended up being a seriously wet house, bit of a panic just now so thanks for the chuckle.

Hope the eye heals up, sounds awful!

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I hope you get over it. Keep us posted.

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Oh i thought this was an eye stye with my little eye game,sorry:o