Internal stye - can I stick a sterilised needle in it myself

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I have a large internal stye inside my bottom eyelid. It's been there for a week. I have been seen at eye hospital and given oral antibiotics (3 days ago) as my whole entire eye swelled. The swelling goes down with a warm compress and then I wake up again with my eye swelled shut.
If i pull my eyelid down i can now see the head of the lump (yellow) and I am considering bursting this myself as I cannot stand the pain any more. I've barely slept in a week and I am absolutely desperate for relief.
If i ensure the needle is sterile - will this work?

I personally wouldn't put a needle near my eye. Can you find some way of squeezing and bursting it instead?

Not sure it will, and please don't put a needle near your eye.

Pull the lid down and apply a hot flannel regularly (not crazy hot because of your eye obviously) - that will encourage the infection to rise and eventually burst.

And if you put this in Sporners Corner, they'll know!

Heat a teaspoon in hot water and wrap it in a tissue - might be more effective than a flannel.

Even if you're successful, and don't damage your eye, you'll likely get an eye infection from all that pus draining into your eye. Call your nearest eye hospital.

If it doesn’t have a hole you’ll do way more damage by trying to force it. OP if you must, get acupuncture needles. But you need to dispose of them in a sharps bin

Keep trying with teabags as hot as you can bear it'll burst eventually (from experience)

When I had one of these I did hot compresses (not too hot) and gently massaged round the eye area. It popped itself after a couple of days of doing this. (i hadn't realised it was even there, thought was one on the outside of my eye - hadn't realised there was one under as well. The relief was immense.

I’ve had this before so I genuinely feel you on how horrible it is.

You just need to keep up with the heat etc and it will burst on its own. I may have prodded mine a bit to try and encourage it, but I couldn’t quite bring myself to poke it with a needle, despite wanting to so much.

I’m pretty sure you can have them lanced, so maybe something to consider asking at the eye hospital if it doesn’t clear up.

Thank you everyone. I sound pathetic but I'm so utterly miserable with it now. I am going to try tea bags for the rest of today. If still the same tomorrow I will either use a needle myself (which in theory sounds easy but i'm not even convinced i could do it when it comes down to it) or i will go back to the eye hospital and beg them to do it.

Please don’t try this. I know I’d want to, but it’s too risky. If the antibiotics haven’t worked by now and the hot compress doesn’t do the trick I think the eye hospital would want to see you again.

IT HAS BURST
I can't believe it. THE TEA BAG

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

I'm so happy i'm nearly crying!!!!

Happy for you, OP!

Yay! I still remember the relief and it was a few years ago now!