Chalazion

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I have had this chalazion since may and it’s not going away. My eye doctor said they can’t refer me as it hasn’t been a year and no one in my town privately removes these ): the closest is 2 hours away and would cost at least a 1000. I’ve tried heat compress and I’ve tried massaging it and I’ve tried putting out the eyelash that might have caused the infection but I can’t seem to find it
any help would be really appreciated 🤍

Ouch! Been there. Have they offered you drops? It was suggested to be to massage downwards to try and pop it.

@HalLOUWeen nooo but they did give me an antibiotic cream but it didn’t do anything sadly): was yours there long before it popped? x

Only a few weeks thankfully but I think i was lucky. Mine took over my whole face, my phone wouldn’t open

Buy eye cream to use all the time. Hot compress at least 4 times a day as hot as you can bear, massage eye with the compress. As compress cools put it back into extremely hot water and keep repeating for 5 to 10 mins. It’s a faff but After a few days it started leaking gunk out. I just kept doing it.
if I let my eyes get to dry it start again so now use eye gel all the time.

Like previous posters l used a very hot compress as many times a day as l could. I also used otc infected eye drops. I massaged the eyelid in a squeezing motion downwards towards the edge of the lid and after a few days the fluid started to discharge.

I have one of these at the moment. I am doing the compress routine and getting some eyedrops
for infected eyes.

Should i leave off wearing my contacts and make-up?

TIA

I had something similar at the start of lockdowns and I think it was because I wasn't wearing mascara for work everyday so therefore wasn't cleansing my eyes every day!

It was unbelievably annoying. I used hot compresses, as per other posters, although the two I had were smaller. You do need to be careful not to spread the infection though. I would completely avoid contacts and make-up whilst it sorts itself out, if poss.

Thank you. How long did you have yours?

My son had one.
Did warm compresses last, he took antibiotics. Nothing shifted it.

Was removed surgically after a 4 yr wait.

I had this and found a video saying to boil eggs and use them (shell on) as a hot compress wrapped in a warm damp flannel as hot as you can bear and keep it there for 20 mins three times a day. Mine went within two days. The hot compresses I'd used before were luke warm and I guess weren't liquefying it enough (guessing, am no eye doctor!)

I had two, over the course of a couple of months, and each time they took about two weeks to go fully I think.

Thank you all. So, between two days and four years.

Just logged in to comment. I had a huge chalazion cyst and I found the hot compresses irritated my (already irritated) eye. The game changer for me was steaming my eyelid! I put boiling water into a coffee cup and put my eye (while closed) over the top of the cup. I then massaged the cyst (downwards for mine because it was on my upper eyelid). Went after 2 days! Good luck, everyone.