I (27F) started developing what I think is a chalazion ~2 weeks ago after a sick friend accidentally spit in my eye while we were talking. I’ve been doing compress, steaming, massage, eye rinse, eyelid scrubs, and omega 3s, and the cyst has just gotten bigger. Now it is pressing on my eye so much that it is causing blurry vision and heavy discomfort and nausea. I know that doctors prefer to wait over 2 months to remove these, but is there any chance I can convince someone to extract this sooner?
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Answer: The early eyelid inflammation is called a stye.
The junction between the midface and lower eyelids is highly complex, and there are different approaches to how it should be treated.
Whenever we have a complex situation, it’s more likely that providers will have different recommendations and approaches.
In my experience fat grafting in this a...
To make an accurate assessment, we need quality pictures.
Take a look at how plastic surgeons take before and after pictures to get an idea of how to take facial pictures.
We typically don’t assess the lower eyelids with patient looking up.
The pictures you’ve included were you look forward I d...
I don’t see “lower eyelid bags”, which is bulging of fat in the lower eyelid. It appears you only have some redundancy of the skin of your lower lids and all else looks normal. This redundancy can be removed and the eyelid skin smoothed with pinch blepharoplasty under local anesthesia only....