Veins in eyes keep worsening - HELP!

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I have had pretty severe dry eyes/blepharitis/ocular rosacea since I developed rosacea in 2010 when I was just 24. (I think the rosacea and eye problems are probably linked to taking roaccutane and antidepressants).

Anyway, one night in January 2015 after playing video games, I noticed a little raised, white speck in my eight eye. (I still don't know what this was). I tried to remove it gently with a cotton bud but it wouldn't budge. Later on it was starting to bother me, so I foolishly closed my right eye and pushed down quite hard on my closed eyelid in the hope this would remove the white speck. Immediately after this when I opened my eye I noticed a massive vein had appeared in it in the inner corner. I told myself it would go away but it didn't. Even worse, as time went on it seemed that all the products I was using to help manage the blepharitis irritated the vein and made it dilate. Soon it started to grow and grow and lots of other little veins appeared in my eye elsewhere as well. I noticed the vita pos ointment that used to be so soothing was now uncomfortable in my eye and made the veins worse.

A month later a similar white speck appeared in my other eye and I poked it with a cotton pad to try and remove it. (I'm stupid I know). Again a big vein appeared and again, it kept growing and now that eye is covered with veins as well.

This has been incredibly distressing and I can't seem to stop the veins growing and worsening. Every so often I will have a flare up where the whole veins in the eyes dilate and get very bloodshot (I'm having a flare up right now!). During these periods I can do virtually nothing that taxes the eyes or more veins will appear at a scary rate. In late 2014 I foolishly used the blue wet ones wipes for a month or two and maybe that is linked to this but I think it is more that I injured my eyes as I described a few months later.

Does anyone know that is going on? It's do much harder to manage the blepharitis now as everything from blephasol to warm compresses just flares up the veins. When I'm washing my hair with shampoo, sometimes the veins worsen (permanently) no matter how tightly I close my eyes. I've seem many eye doctors and tried the usual things. (I didn't tell them about the wet ones or eye poking incidents). Doxy seems to slow down the formation of new veins but I can't take it forever.

I'm only 31 years old. The blepharitis caused me plenty of distress before the veins but this nightmare is a whole new level of misery. I need this to stop worsening. HELP!

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  • Posted

    Hi.

    I said some things maybe you think not relate belpharit and dryeye but help me much.

    evening primrose oil.took 2 capsul in day.

    Help me my eye pruduce oil.

    Also punctal plug help me more tears in my eyes.

  • Posted

    Ask your doctor to refer you to an eye specialist at your local hospital.  I'm amazed he/she hasn't done that already.

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