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

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

sorry, thats all i've got.

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.

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

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

technically thats more frontyard than backyard.

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

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

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?

Is she related to Polly?

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

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

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!

I hope you get over it. Keep us posted.

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