Where to seek help
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Where to seek help
Not aviation related but I know there are a few eye experts out there
I'm not looking for medical advice but rather where to seek that advice
I have a small but painful lump on the bottom of my lower eye lid , not a stye, the lump appears on my bottom eyelid , with a small raised red patch on the inside of my lid about half a cm down as well.
Bizarrely I have a matching one on the other eye as well , I've had this one for longer , it is not painful anymore but still there.
What I need to know is , is this a doctor or an optician job?
I wear soft daily disposible contacts and have a history of CHolazions (sp?) on my upper eye lids. I have had cholazions surgically removed before but have also had ones just disappear on their own.
I ask because I'm new to Canada , have no Gp and no optician at the moment and am a bit unsure as to which I need to find first !!!
Cheers in advance
I'm not looking for medical advice but rather where to seek that advice
I have a small but painful lump on the bottom of my lower eye lid , not a stye, the lump appears on my bottom eyelid , with a small raised red patch on the inside of my lid about half a cm down as well.
Bizarrely I have a matching one on the other eye as well , I've had this one for longer , it is not painful anymore but still there.
What I need to know is , is this a doctor or an optician job?
I wear soft daily disposible contacts and have a history of CHolazions (sp?) on my upper eye lids. I have had cholazions surgically removed before but have also had ones just disappear on their own.
I ask because I'm new to Canada , have no Gp and no optician at the moment and am a bit unsure as to which I need to find first !!!
Cheers in advance
Sounds like a meibomiam (sp?) cyst, but someone'll have to look at it to confirm.
If it is, they're usually not a problem, usually they settle on there own, simple antibiotic eye ointment (see a prescriber) can help when they become inflammed.
If they continue to be a pest, they can be surgically removed.
As with any lump, get it checked.
If it is, they're usually not a problem, usually they settle on there own, simple antibiotic eye ointment (see a prescriber) can help when they become inflammed.
If they continue to be a pest, they can be surgically removed.
As with any lump, get it checked.
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That's not what I said, Hippo. It's unlikely the local walk-in has an ophthalmologist. Depending on your province's rules, though, you may have to go there to get a referral. IMHO eye conditions deserve treatment by a specialist physician.
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I wouldn't argue that, but sometimes a close inspection will reveal just what is happening.
My latest granddaughter has just finished with one on her right eye, and is now suffering one on the left. It's really quite large.
Sadly, sometimes even seeing the head honcho is a total waste of time, if you are not armed with all the data you can get. I once left Colchester hospital in high dudgeon because of the pompous attitude of the local opthalmic 'god'.
My infant son had suffered months of treatment with antibiotics, all to no avail. I was getting increasingly concerned that his brain would not be developing properly due to the eye having been obscured with 'crud' for such a large part of his life.
I put him on the bed with an Anglepoise light over, and took a look with a times 4 eyeglass. The drain duct had never been open.
I made a little scalpel with a large needle, opened it up and teased out the fatty substance from the hole. After all those weeks and 4 different specialists, he was fine in a couple of days. (His son had the same thing BTW)
The morale of this story is get armed before you go. Mirrors, light and different reading glasses might be enough to see something quite obvious.
My latest granddaughter has just finished with one on her right eye, and is now suffering one on the left. It's really quite large.
Sadly, sometimes even seeing the head honcho is a total waste of time, if you are not armed with all the data you can get. I once left Colchester hospital in high dudgeon because of the pompous attitude of the local opthalmic 'god'.
My infant son had suffered months of treatment with antibiotics, all to no avail. I was getting increasingly concerned that his brain would not be developing properly due to the eye having been obscured with 'crud' for such a large part of his life.
I put him on the bed with an Anglepoise light over, and took a look with a times 4 eyeglass. The drain duct had never been open.
I made a little scalpel with a large needle, opened it up and teased out the fatty substance from the hole. After all those weeks and 4 different specialists, he was fine in a couple of days. (His son had the same thing BTW)
The morale of this story is get armed before you go. Mirrors, light and different reading glasses might be enough to see something quite obvious.
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Sorry Obgraham , that's what I meant , I'll have to get a referral and I don't have a gp so clinic it is.
As for close inspection , I'm for all intents and purposes blind without my corrective lenses , so the chances of me being able to see whats going on are slim !!!!
I've gone back to my glasses for a few days in the hope that it might help. Last night the one on my right eye came up in a pus head , so I cleaned it with saline and drained the goop out , It's still there but not sore anymore
As for close inspection , I'm for all intents and purposes blind without my corrective lenses , so the chances of me being able to see whats going on are slim !!!!
I've gone back to my glasses for a few days in the hope that it might help. Last night the one on my right eye came up in a pus head , so I cleaned it with saline and drained the goop out , It's still there but not sore anymore
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I put him on the bed with an Anglepoise light over, and took a look with a times 4 eyeglass. The drain duct had never been open.
I made a little scalpel with a large needle, opened it up and teased out the fatty substance from the hole. After all those weeks and 4 different specialists, he was fine in a couple of days. (His son had the same thing BTW)
I made a little scalpel with a large needle, opened it up and teased out the fatty substance from the hole. After all those weeks and 4 different specialists, he was fine in a couple of days. (His son had the same thing BTW)
Gulp!!!!!!!!
You REALLY are mad.I'm not sure what the set-up is Canada, but I'm not sure that an English ophthalmologist would be too impressed with a referral for a meibomiam cyst, unless the intention was surgical.
Beware any speciality beginning with the letter "O."
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"I made a little scalpel with a large needle, opened it up and teased out the fatty substance from the hole."
How on earth did you get an infant to keep still for that?
Mac
How on earth did you get an infant to keep still for that?
Mac
