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    STYE IN MY EYE.

    It's on the lower left eye lid and hurts like a mother fucker when I have to blink hard. How does bg usually fix theirs when they get it. It just started yesterday and so today is only day 2 ; ;

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    Push it out son


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    Idk I had one really bad for a while, fucker lasted like 3 months before it finally drained out, and even then it stuck around...in fact, it's still partially around, my eyelid is pink there now, even though it's not really filled with fluid, you can still tell there's something wrong with it.

    The home remedy is to apply (really) hot towels or teabags to it every couple hours. This is supposed to unclog the clogged ducts faster. Lots of people swear by it.

    The expensive method is to get it lanced out by a doctor and take steroid drops he prescribes to make sure it goes away completely and doesn't come right back.

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    Rub a gold ring on it!

    Yeah, I know it's an old wive's tale bullshit, but the placebo bullshit helped one I had.

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    Last one I had was a couple months ago, but I did exactly what Silenka said with the hot towel. It went away after about 3 days and hasn't came back/my eye isn't fucked up still.

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    Gave my mom a call to ask her since mom almost knows everything. (atleast we were raised to say that >_>) but she said the same thing with the hot towel so I'll give that a go.

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    Look for the particualar eye lash that is closest to the stye (or possibly in the middle of it) and pull the lash out with some tweezers. The pressure of the stye will basically force it out the the empty folicle. When I used to get them they would be gone overnight from doing that.

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    Tweezing out the lash will also make the follicle a portal for infection.

    You could always go to a minute clinic and a nurse practitioner will handle that shit (if the hot towel doesn't work). Cheaper than "go see a doctor!" (but not cheaper than the towel).

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    I get them every now and again, sit with a hot towel lol and just let it go away on it's own, sucks especially if they hurt and make your eye swollen, but its just one of those crappy things.

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    hot towel is what I've always used, as well as some Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo to clean/disinfect the lid (since anything else will burn the shit out of your eyes if you get it in there)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Atreides View Post
    hot towel is what I've always used, as well as some Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo to clean/disinfect the lid (since anything else will burn the shit out of your eyes if you get it in there)
    Fucker, you beat me to it. Johnson & Johnson's Baby Shampoo is godlike.

    I got stories to tell about my styes but maybe another time.

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