Pictures of my eyes - what is your assessment?

your eyes

Your eyes look great - guess I am missing the boat - you have beautiful blue eyes

[dryeyepete]

Hey,

The lumps are most certainly blocked MG's, which produce the oil layer of tear film.

With regards to your caruncle i get the same thing, when eyes are bad they are ussualy red, and i put it down to either ocular rosacea/allergies or both. Dry eye could be making eye allergies worse or the other way round. Im still trying to figure this out, having eyes shut and it going back to pink to me sounds like allergies are in the picture.

Thanks for your input sazy, after many doctors not being able to find anything wrong with my eye itself, I have began wondering if allergies are to blame. Is there any useful info on the web about how to go about being tested for allergies in the UK?

Does anyone else have a different opinion?

[sazy123]

Hey,

The lumps are most certainly blocked MG's, which produce the oil layer of tear film.

With regards to your caruncle i get the same thing, when eyes are bad they are ussualy red, and i put it down to either ocular rosacea/allergies or both. Dry eye could be making eye allergies worse or the other way round. Im still trying to figure this out, having eyes shut and it going back to pink to me sounds like allergies are in the picture.

[dryeyepete]

It's not the greatest camera in the world, so some details are a little blurry. The background on my situation is that I have had many doctors tell me many different and conflicting things - from blepharitis to nothing wrong whatsoever. My eyes haven't changed in apperance since I first noticed dry eye symptoms about 2 years ago, and eye drops provide no pain relief whatsoever.

In the first picture, notice the redness of the caruncle (is this what it is called, the red blob in the corner?). It is supposed to be a soft pink colour, although here we can see it is a dark red. It is this colour as soon as I wake up, and will change from pink to red throughout the day depending on what I am doing. If I have been watching TV for a hour, it will be red, but if I have had my eyes shut for about 30mins, it will usually revert back to pink.

How might you explain this, and from looking at the picture, how would you diagnose my condition?

In the second picture, I have circled one of these small lumps I often get on my eyelids. I have never popped one, although I have come into contact with them when doing lid-scrubs but they seem quite tough and would require force to burst.

Any theories as to what these lumps are and what I should be doing with them?

Thanks for reading