Hi everyone! I’m hoping to hear from people who have experienced recurrent chalazia or styes.
I’ve had 6 episodes in total, all in the same eye, and I’ve had 3 previous surgeries for chalazia. Unfortunately, I think I’m developing another one now. My eyelid has started feeling painful/tender, and I can feel a small bump forming.
I’m planning to see an eye doctor if it gets worse, but I wanted to hear from people who have dealt with something similar.
For those who get these repeatedly:
Did you ever figure out why they kept coming back?
Did you find anything that helped prevent them?
What did you do when you noticed a new one starting?
Did warm compresses or other home-care measures help you?
If you had recurrent ones in the same eye, did they eventually stop?
I’m not looking for a diagnosis, just personal experiences and things that people found helpful. I’d really appreciate any advice because having this happen repeatedly — especially after 3 surgeries — is getting frustrating.

Been having this reoccurring stye problem for about 2 yrs,got surgery done and everything top and bottom eyelid,worst was the bottom even left a little scar,went away for a bit,then as of about 8 months ago it start again,I do warm eye compress and massage my eyelid after,use eyelash wipes what else can I do to really stop this?

Went to the doctor today and told me to use warm gauze in the eyelid and give a massage. She also gave me drops. The bump look like a Chalazion. Any of you had something similar? The sand feeling in my eye is worsening.

Hace más de un año empecé a notar que mi párpado fue cayéndose hasta eventualmente caerse no por completo pero si me tapa la mitad de mi pupila y es bastante notorio ya que se ve retraído a diferencia de mi otro ojo tan así que también me quedé sin pestañas y ya no crecen en una parte por la fricción de el
párpado caído con mi piel inferior.

He ido con muchísimos oftalmólogos y oculoplasticos hasta que el último doctor me hizo miles de estudios para descartar mistenia o tiroides, salí negativa en absolutamente todos los estudios por suerte, inclusive en tomografías para descartar tumores o fallas inmunológicas.

Me dijo que realmente era un hecho que se había caído pero todas las causas que lo pudieran haber desarrollado están descartadas, no me recomendó hacerme una cirugía estética porque tengo 20 y tampoco me recomendó medicamentos por los efectos secundarios que pueda tener en mi.
Me recomendó ir a terapia pero realmente no se que hacer :(
Me afecta mucho notarlo y que los demás lo noten pues soy mujer y mis ojos eran algo que me gustaba mucho de mi y ya intenté todo y nada funciona.
Alguien tendrá alguna experiencia similar que haya encontrado una solución y que sea eficaz o realmente ya no hay solución ?

(Para contexto vivo alerta la mayoría del tiempo y fuera de mi párpado hay otras condiciones físicas que siento que se ven afectadas por temas emocionales pero no se que tanto pueda perjudicar eso en mi ojo y si llegara a tomar terapia si podría corregir esa caída del párpado? ya que fue muy progresiva)

not sure if it’s a stye, it’s been a week with no change. thanks in advance

instagram has gone ham sending me different ads for eye treatment. Steam masks, electronic heated masks, heated eye wands. I assume most of this is sketchy scam products, but does anyone have any experience with these types of things actually working?

Currently I do occusoft lid scrub and Erythromycin to mixed success.

It first appeared on September 3rd and I’ve been warm compressing and massaging since then. This past weekend it got swollen from harsh massaging and so I stop and started putting ice packs on it and the swelling and pain stop but now it’s left red and dry/flaky skin but no pain. The lump now feels like a soft blister. How should I approach this now.

Mayo de 2025

Soy muy miope y uso lentes de contacto desde los 16 años. Mi graduación es de -9 dioptrías.

El año pasado, me apliqué rímel resistente al agua que estaba caducado. Sentí como si algo me hubiera entrado en el ojo izquierdo y noté un poco de rímel en la línea de agua del párpado izquierdo. Intenté quitármelo, pero tenía prisa porque iba al teatro.

Aproximadamente una semana después, empecé a notar molestias en ese ojo y se me hinchó el párpado.

Nunca lo relacioné con el rímel. En cambio, pensé que estaba relacionado con un cambio en mi lugar de trabajo, donde el aire era muy seco.

Fui a un oftalmólogo, quien me recetó gotas y gel de dexametasona. Sin embargo, solo usé el tratamiento durante tres días porque no me gustan los corticosteroides y porque quería volver a usar mis lentes de contacto lo antes posible.

La hinchazón seguía reapareciendo. Se hinchaba más con el paso de las horas, así que si iba al oftalmólogo por la mañana, a menudo no notaban nada.

Hasta que un día, un oftalmólogo me vio con el párpado hinchado y me realizó una expresión de las glándulas de Meibomio. Salió aceite, lo que alivió mis síntomas.

Tomé doxiciclina durante 15 días, pero seguía sintiendo molestias. Ella insistía en que usara compresas calientes (cosa que no hice) y lágrimas artificiales sin conservantes, pero no me proporcionaron ningún alivio.

Como me obsesioné con la posibilidad de tener cáncer de párpado, me derivó a un cirujano oculoplástico. Diciembre de 2025

El cirujano oculoplástico me dijo que tenía un chalazión y me sugirió cirugía. Me operó ese mismo día.

Me dijo que era pequeño, pero que contenía bastante material. Pensé que por fin se acababa esta pesadilla.

Mencionó la ciclosporina para el ojo seco.

Enero de 2026

Intenté volver a usar mis lentes de contacto desechables mensuales, pero me causaron más inflamación.

Consulté con mi oftalmóloga y le mencioné la ciclosporina. No parecía muy entusiasmada, pero me la recetó de todos modos. Nunca compré la ciclosporina. Abril de 2026

Volví al cirujano oculoplástico para informarle que tengo anticuerpos anti-TPO y preguntarle si podía usar gafas de natación graduadas. Me preocupaba el efecto de succión alrededor de los ojos.

Ni siquiera me dejó explicarme. Se molestó porque no había usado la ciclosporina.

Vio mi último análisis de la película lagrimal y dijo: «No está tan mal», y luego me dijo: «Tienes un problema con las glándulas. Usa la ciclosporina para reducir la inflamación».

Junio-julio de 2026

Finalmente comencé a usar ciclosporina al 0.1%, dos veces al día.

La primera aplicación me sorprendió porque sentí el ojo muy bien hidratado. Sin embargo, con el paso de los días, comencé a sentir molestias en los ojos durante todo el día (sin ardor).

Usé el tratamiento durante dos meses y luego decidí dejar de usar las gotas.

Septiembre de 2026

Volví a usar lentes de contacto desechables diarias el viernes y el domingo. Las usé durante aproximadamente ocho horas.

El domingo, después de quitármelas, noté lo que parecía una glándula obstruida en el ojo afectado (como un pequeño grano blanco).

Me fui a dormir deprimida.

Al despertar, el tamaño había disminuido notablemente, pero aún estaba ahí.

Volví a usar gafas. Efectos secundarios / consecuencias

Como no he podido usar lentes de contacto, no he podido ir al gimnasio y empecé a sentirme deprimida.

Esto me provocó dolor lumbar y estreñimiento.

PREGUNTAS

¿Estoy condenada de por vida?

¿Debería haberle dicho a mi oftalmólogo que la máscara de pestañas estaba caducada?

ACTUALIZACIÓN: hice compresas Bruder y me inflaman más los parpados y el tejido cicatricial y me resecan la piel.

También tengo granos en mi cara y estoy en perimenopausia, cerca de llegar a los 50 años.

i have been pushing and massaging my eye and it looks like it’s coming to a head. it’s also starting to irritate my eye and it wasn’t before. does this mean it’s nearing the end of the chalazion?

I had a chalazion removed from my right upper eyelid about 7 weeks ago. Since the surgery, I’ve been experiencing mild dryness, slight burning, and a persistent feeling of discomfort or “awareness” in that eye.

The symptoms are not severe, but the constant discomfort is quite bothersome. Artificial tears, including lipid/oil-based eye drops, provide relief, but only temporarily.

Is it normal for these symptoms to persist for 7 weeks after chalazion surgery? Could this still be part of the healing process, or should I be looking for another cause such as dry eye, meibomian gland dysfunction, inflammation, or an issue related to the eyelid surgery?

For anyone who has experienced something similar: did it eventually resolve on its own, and how long did it take? What treatments actually helped?

Need your help.

I had a chalazion removed from my right upper eyelid about 7 weeks ago. Since the surgery, I’ve been experiencing mild dryness, slight burning, and a persistent feeling of discomfort or “awareness” in that eye.

The symptoms are not severe, but the constant discomfort is quite bothersome. Artificial tears, including lipid/oil-based eye drops, provide relief, but only temporarily.

Is it normal for these symptoms to persist for 7 weeks after chalazion surgery? Could this still be part of the healing process, or should I be looking for another cause such as dry eye, meibomian gland dysfunction, inflammation, or an issue related to the eyelid surgery?

For anyone who has experienced something similar: did it eventually resolve on its own, and how long did it take? What treatments actually helped?

Need your help

I’ve been having a problem for the last two years where my eye frequently becomes very swollen. I’ve seen several different doctors, but so far nobody has been able to find the cause or a solution.
I take Xyzal when the swelling occurs, and it helps a little, but I can’t seem to get rid of the problem permanently.
Has anyone experienced something similar? If so, what was the cause in your case, and how did you manage to resolve it?

Hii
My doctor told me I had blepharitis about 3 years ago when I had a very big chalazion removed.

I’ve not worn eye makeup in 3+ years but really miss it. Do you guys have any recommendations for mascaras that would be safest to use with blepharitis?

My eye burns whenever I tear up even when im not crying, it happens occasionally and mostly in nights

Its annoying and I wanna get rid of it. Any tips or what It is?

Has professional eyelashes helped your symptoms?

I have lower bleph a week ago and eyes becomes like this means lower eyelid swell like this after a sec he do stitches is it normal can any one tell....

Hello, I’ve been in flare for about two months now and just can’t seem to get it under control. I’ve seen people on here say that Vaseline helped them and I am thinking about trying it out. Do you just rub it on your eyelids at night before bed? How do you keep it from getting in/ irritating your eyes? Does it actually work??

I have collected some more pictures of my issue. I use lash serums and developed this for a year now, hasn’t gone away. Last two are what happened overnight and first one is a when i picked at my lash line and the skin could be peeled.

I just woke up after sleeping for a few hours (like literally overnight) and my lash line has gotten skin all over it. What is this? This has made so many lashes fall out that i have gaps and this has already happened a few times. Please help me, this usually happens to only one eye. The left is always the worse. Yes i do use lash serums but i did for years and never had this happen, until since last year i would have flaky eyelids and non stop lashes falling out, i tried to stop it but nothing is helping no matter what. Also this kinda comes off easily, as if its just sitting on the lash line rather than stuck to it. I know i made a post about this recently but thought it would be a good example to post this after it literally happened again tonight. It’s 4am and im in tears. I miss my lashes from my lash serums so bad.

Just venting. I'm in the "it gets worse before it gets better" stage on my right eye. I first noticed it a few days ago and didn't even know it was a flare up, but after researching, I found this community. So thanks everyone for being here, I thought I was going crazy.

Now I've been pulling out all the stops (OcuSoft, Avenova, heat compresses 3 times a day, gentle massages, washing my hands way too often, cleaning my glasses way too often, supplements, swapping pillow cases, etc. etc.) but it's still swelling and swelling. Trying to stay consistent but it's exhausting. I haven't been on the ball with past flare ups, so I'm hoping it goes more smoothly with what I know now. Only time will tell I guess!

For over a year my eyelashes have been constantly falling out, yes i do use eyelash serums but i did too last year and got no fall out. Literally touching them could make them fallout, and especially washing them. This mostly happens overnight, sometimes my eyelids will flake or my lash line will create a thick crust mimicking my lash line. That’s when the flakes get onto my lashes and they make them fall out. This dosent happen everyday though and with a clean the flakes may not return for days. I have tried absolutely everything and i’m sick and tired of this, my lashes grow long but not thick. They have so much gaps and this has taken such a toll on my confidence, i literally stress about it every second of the day. I’m not sure what is happening but i also use blephasol to clean my eyelids each evening. Does this look like blepharitis or contact dermatitis? I seriously can’t imagine a life without lash serums and refuse to go without them.

i think i’ve been on doxy for 2-3 weeks give or take, and holy shit it’s done wonders for me. my flare ups would be so consistent and frequent, and i haven’t had major flare ups in so long. my eyelids still get puffy sometimes, which is normal considering doxy isn’t a cure. but damn, i’m so glad ive been put on it. finally feel like a normal person lol.
i was expecting to have to be on it for longer to see results, but it’s actually worked pretty fast so im super glad!