to ask about "DIY" surgery?

[Salmotrutta]

Have you ever done any? If so what did you do?

So, I'm asking because I have a small cyst-type thing near my eyelashes. It actually looks like a tiny fat-filled cyst (bleurgh).
It's very small (about 1mm), not causing me discomfort or really impinging on my life but I don't like it. I "feel" it when I'm rubbing my eye or applying mascara etc.
I don't think it's even that visible to others.
I don't really want to go and see the GP as it's not exactly a big deal and it would take weeks to even get a referral for something like this.
So I'm thinking about trying to break it open with a sterilised needle or somesuch. What can I try? Hot compresses or something?
(If it helps, I can easily lay my hands on a scalpel)

I'm also prepared to be told I'm being ridiculous to even try messing with it - it's been there for about 1-2 years and is just annoying!

I think the most like thing it be is a stye you need to use Golden Eye Onitment on it. But OP I think you are a dammned idiot asking some of the fools on here what to be doing with your EYE.

Yours EYES are the most precious part of your body and you don't clart around with them, if you don't know how to doctors yerself up go and see a bloody doctor you silly woman

Wimps. I cut one out of my head the other week

OP

If you don't leave it alone I shall slap the back of your legs!

beesimo - it's not a stye. Definitely not - and I'm fairly sure Golden Eye ointment isn't available over the counter now.
TBH all the advice I've had has been very responsible. See the GP has been the most common answer. I'm absolutely not going to damage my eyes.
And I'm not actually a silly woman - I'm not about to get all gung-ho and attack my eyes with a carving knife
For a start, even if I did, the reflex response would probably result in me squeezing my eyes shut and jerking away from danger anyway.

• The eyes are of course very precious. But I think you'll find your heart and brain are quite precious too!!

LOL beesimo - I'm probably older than you!! But you are funny and I love your posts!

What did you cut out of your head Sarah???

FGS woman, leave your eye alone!
I am a very enthusiastic and apparently competent home surgeon with a pair of steady hands and sufficient routine medical knowledge to tackle a small number of minor family-related procedures whilst doing no harm, but even I think this is a STEP TOO FAR!

at this entire thread. Anyone got any brain bleach?

A cyst, about the size of a large pea.

I hold a kitchen surgery twice a month. Sadly, I am usually the only victim patient.

I'm not going to do it!!!

I micro-dissected stuff for years in labs and I'm pretty competent with a scalpel but I do realise this is a step too far!! It being the lash-line and all.

I shall try hot compresses and rough massage - if that doesn't work I'll "save it up" for my next GP visit (which might be years away!)

Ooooh Sarah - your my new best hero!

Actually - I once had smelling salts - they were pungent to say the least!

you're - for crying out loud!!!

BoffinMum - I have a mental image of you wielding a scalpel and chasing critters round your house performing medical miracles.
Like House!

Oooh I love these threads and recoil in horror in equal measure.

I recall a blow by blow thread by a MNer performing surgery on her DH complete with a video upload to youtube and

'Tis a sort of horrified fascination jaspants

oooh, I've got a gristly lump on the side of my face (by my ear) that's about the size of a penny. I do fantasize about winkling it out with a sharp implement, but so far DP has stopped me Please don't do any DIY winkling, I fear it would end badly! Mind you as a teen I had a 'lump' (not a spot) on my cheek. I 'winkled' it with a needle and at the root of it (after blood and that) was a perfectly spherical, hard, clear tiny ball. If only youtube had been invented then. It was a great moment when I 'winkled' that out.

I have just self-deleted my intended post because even I can see how wrong I've been with my previously rather uncritical applications of shop-bought wart freezer.

alistron1 - how weird. What was it, this spherical clear ball??? I need to know!!!
Linerunner - what are you applying wart remover to exactly???

Hello mrsdonkey!!

Urgh.

Thanks.

Just scrape it with your nail and it should come off - thats what I do, less surgical but v effective.

I've tried the nail scraping - I just end up with a sore eyelid!! But then again I don't have very sharp nails.

I had a hard lump on my eye lid.It was towards the ear end.It felt like a blocked duct and if i got really close to the mirror and squinted it looked like a hard lump of pearly gunk.

Doc said it was a cyst and to leave it.It burst one day and the rubbish that came out was vile.