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I agree completely with all the comments on this site. I have had blepharitis for a year now and I am thoroughly sick of it! I had an eye infection some five years ago and my optometrist says my bleph is a result of that. This is what I do to keep it under control: I use the baby shampoo on a Q tip once a week. Three times a day I put hot compresses on both eyelids (my bleph is worse in the left eye) and use a product called BlephaGel which seems to help. However, my lower left eyelid is always redder than the right one and this makes me very self-conscious. As a person whose self-esteem is not that good, I find this condition certainly does not help as I tend to avoid people and social situations when I feel my eye looks bad. Not only that, I have a chalazion on my left eyelid, have had it for more than six months. Two months ago it came to a large yellow head which my doctor says was good, it came to a head about fifteen times. However, I still have the chalazion although it is much smaller. I was sent to a specialist with the option of having the bump surgically removed but I don't want to go there unless it's a very last resort. The specialist agreed with me, saying that my eye looked fine to him. Like everyone else here, I can't understand why they can't find a cure!:roll: And like one of the posters said, although the condition is common, I have yet to meet someone who is in the same boat as me.

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  • Guest
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    I thought I was the only one who had gotten this "blepharitis" that now I've been researching for what seems like so long. It's only been 5 months for me but feels like 5 years. Well I'm in the same boat my right eye is worse and it will flare up even more sometimes preventing me from doing the things I want to do socially b/c yes, it does make one feel self conscious. I am using warm/cold compresses, and Ocusoft Lid scrub, in addtion to Lotemax, but every time I stop the cycle of the eyedrops the blepharitis comes again twice as fast, well I don't want to say it but I'm really scare of the "addiction" that my eyes are developing to these eyedrops and that once I'm off of them my bleph just does not stay subsided. I have never met anyone with this condition in my life.

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  • amikap
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    Still they have found no cure .Even I am suffering from one on the left eyelid.Got it surgically removed once but it reoccured after 2 years .Again went for the cut but this time slight lump remains and have not bothered to go again.Looking for some sure shot natural or medicinal cure but none seems to be there as of now.
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