How do u get rid of thickned and swellen lid margin?

[bp77]

Any one knowes how to get rid of a swellen, red and veiny lid margin? my upper lid is very swellen with a red line which is thick around my lash line. I do not look normal any more.I have posteror belph and DED.I have been told by doc to do warm compresses.I do not understand how does this help my lids? How do I get rid of this inflamation? I did cold compress in the past but did not work. This has changed my life so bad, I am embarresed of the way I look. I do not know how to live with this since I am a young female.I am very sad. Any idea?

[pete0085]

Any one knowes how to get rid of a swellen, red and veiny lid margin? my upper lid is very swellen with a red line which is thick around my lash line. I do not look normal any more.I have posteror belph and DED.I have been told by doc to do warm compresses.I do not understand how does this help my lids? How do I get rid of this inflamation? I did cold compress in the past but did not work. This has changed my life so bad, I am embarresed of the way I look. I do not know how to live with this since I am a young female.I am very sad. Any idea?

You sound a little bit like me, except for the female part

This is from my own personal experience with warm compress to help my mgd condition.

First - What are using for warm compress, wash cloth or rice baggy? I use to do it with a wash cloth but it never helped. You can create your own rice baggy if you do not want to buy one from here.

I got away from doing the warm compress for several weeks and my eyes were always red and bothering me and the drops and allergy drops did not seem to be working and made me wonder why, what changed?

About 2 weeks ago I started the warm compress every night and about 4 days later, my eyes started to look really good, almost normal. The warm compress is followed my eye lid massages (with my finger) and washing my eyes out with ocusoft. It's very important to do the eye lid massages as I found out.

To answer your question in a long round about way, the warm compress loosens up the oil glands in your eye lids and this may be a reason your eye lids and eyes are red and inflamed. This was the case for me. It was hard to believe doing something as simple as warm compress every night would give me that much relief.

I do agree it can make me sad and make me not want to participate in social activities, but this week has been very good for me and the difference was the warm compress.

Feel free to email me on here with any questions. This site is great!


Todd

[Lfarls]

I've wondered the same thing. I have ocular rosacea/ MGD and my main symptom is inflammation. Not only the lid margins but the lacrimal gland area also. (Right below the eyebrow). In my case compresses and massages haven't worked. Its really hard to tell if the eyelids themselves have thickened over time or if they're just chronically swollen. I have my first IPL appointment tomorrow. It's also supposed to improve the
look of the lid margins also.. I hope!!!

[Margaret]

Interesting subject!

Hi to you both!

Todd, how do you do your warm compresses? I've been fighting against them because they only seemed to inflame things, but maybe I'm doing them for too long or too hot. Just curious what your "method" is... and then the massage too. I use a q-tip and push on my bottom lid margin but the top lid is tough. I lost my rice baggie, gotta make another one!

thanks and good luck to both of you.
Margaret

[pete0085]

Hi to you both!

Todd, how do you do your warm compresses? I've been fighting against them because they only seemed to inflame things, but maybe I'm doing them for too long or too hot. Just curious what your "method" is... and then the massage too. I use a q-tip and push on my bottom lid margin but the top lid is tough. I lost my rice baggie, gotta make another one!

thanks and good luck to both of you.
Margaret

I struggle with the same things you do.

After a warm compress my eyes do look bloodshot and believe this is due from the heat. If I use a cold wash cloth afterwards, it seems to calm the eyes down.

I use a rice baggy and ocusoft foam to clean out the eyes.

For the massages I use my fingers from the upper eye lids and a q tip for the lower eye lids, but I never see any oil leak out. Makes me wonder if I even am doing it correctly.

[bokbok]

i too struggle as well i do rice bag 4 times a day i can not seem to get bleph under control i keep getting marginal uclers but with me its left eye thats bad i too tried everything nothing seems to make they eyes better i,m still banging my head on a wall