A review of treatment for a stye, a combination of conjunctivitis and sty inflammation.

I'm sharing my experience with treatment for styes at an ophthalmology clinic.
There are many types of styes, but mine was an external sty.
We will talk in detail about stye treatment, symptoms, removal methods, pain, recovery period, etc.

It wasn't that I had styes from the beginning, but one day, every time I closed my eyes and opened them, they started to hurt, my eyes got bloodshot, and there was a lot of eye mucus.

 

And a small stye that shows its presence right in the center of the eyelid....

When I pressed around my eyes with my hand, it hurt like pressing a bruise.
You know this pain!?

First of all, the stye was small and the congestion was severe, so I put in conjunctivitis eye drops and the congestion went down.

 

I've had styes since I was little, and as a professional sty enthusiast who has been to the ophthalmologist many times for sty treatment, I thought it was okay and when I woke up the next day...

 

My eyes were swollen like sausages and the small stye grew so big in just one day..!

I went straight to the ophthalmologist to get treatment for my sty, and when I showed them the pictures I took for my records, they said it was an external sty.

 

There are three ways to treat a stye: taking medicine, squeezing it with a cotton swab, or squeezing it out when it's not severe. I was told to just squeezing it out.
I've never had it done before, so I asked if I really had to, and they said I had to because it was full of pus😱
In the end, the treatment for the stye was an incision. They put in anesthetic eye drops and flipped my eyelid over to open it.
Even though I was anesthetized, the pain was not like this world.


This is a picture taken after cutting it.

The pus was all drained, but because it was so large, the pus pocket? wouldn't go away right away. They said it would take a few days for it to heal after an incision and drainage.
I took the prescribed medication and used eye drops properly.

But it took longer than expected to heal?

It got a lot better after a few days

I was really worried that I would get hurt like thatㅠㅠ

I wish I had treated the stye right away when it was small, but now I regret it later...

Maybe because I had conjunctivitis, the swelling and congestion got better quickly, but the wounds and eye pain lasted a long time.

 

After diligently steaming every day, I finally got back to having clear eyes after only two weeks of treating my styes.

But if you look closely, there's a slight scratch left ㅠㅠ

I usually try not to touch my eyes often, but doctors say that styes can be caused by my constitution or immunity, even if I don't touch my eyes often.

I need to take better care of my eye health from now on!