Hi my name is Melissa. I was diagnosed with Blepharitis around 6 months ago. It affects my left eye and it is continually making my eye lid droop and my skin around my eye very dry. My eye itself can be very sore and irritable, and red. Other times it can be quiet good, however always dry/droopy eye lid.
My current routine:
Each day morning and night I was my lashes and lids with a foam called Sterilid as reccomended by a specialist.
I do hot compresses several times a day (probably 10 - 15 minutes worth)
I dont wear eye liner, I remove make up each night before bed and wash around my eyes.
I take Krill Oil tablets each day (3000mg)
I use artifical tears several times a day (Systane)
And am currently on Doxy-50mg that my doctor put me on.
HOWEVER, none of this really helps (or seems to anyway). What I want to do is find a way to cure Blepharitis or at least make the puffy/droopy eye lid go away as it looks TERRIBLE and unfortunately my appearance is a big part of my job...
Can someone recommend how they have overcome their Blepharitis, or how they eliminated puffy and droopy eye lids?
I am so grateful for all the help I recieve!
Melissa
PS - I also have crone's disease.
Hello, I too was diagnosed wih blepharitis several years back, I found the only thing that relieves it is to shower every day using Capsiculum shampoo (not sure of the name but it is coal tar based and used for the treatment of sebborheic dermatitis), I also take doxycycline. If I miss just one shower i will begin to show the symptoms of blepharitis.
Hi David, I will have to try and find some Capsiculum shampoo over here in Australia, and give that a go as well. Thank you.
I have had great sucdcess after using the Wet Ones antibacterial wipes. Wipe at the base of the lashes. I started 3 times a day for 3 months and then went down to 2 times a day for a month. Now I just use them when my eye is irritated or itching. Lynda on this site is the one who discovered this and I am eternally grateful to her. I have battled this for 20 years and this has been the solution!!! Good Luck...hope it works as well for you.
Just your every day general wet ones? is their a specific brand?
I will give this a go. Do you do it with anything else or just that? no hot compress/tablets etc?
I do still apply hot compresses in the morning but the WET ONES have been a miracle cure for the itching, redness and and flaking around the base of the lashes. Good Luck..it works!
Unfortunately, there is NO CURE for Blepharitis, only maintenance remedies. I have found as I am sure you have read on this sight that Wet Ones are very good at killing bacteria. I am in the US and purchase them in a box (red and white( at Walmart. I divide them into 8 or more strips and use one strip for each eyelid-along the upper and lower lash line. I do not wash it off. This really helps mine. I too like you use the Systane Balance drops and have gone to the Systane Ultra which really makes mine feel so much better-It seems there is more lubrication in them. The warm compresses are good too but didn't seem to help mine. I do not really have the droopy lids but mine are puffy, esp the left one and makes my eyes look so tired .
Thanks Sandra, I hope it helps the droopy eye lid i have, thats my main concern, it looks terrible..
No known cure, correct. However i have talked to people who have naturally cured their own, however, every one is different and their cures dont work for all of us unfortunately. I wish they did. I also have Crone's Disease which really impacts and makes this so much worse. I hate it. I will try wet ones and see how i go! I will maintain Systane as well (Ultra i use too sorry)
I think everybody has different forms. One thing I now have is a mild form of Rosacea which the specialist diagnosed. I go to a Dermatologist once aa year for a check-up and was never diagnosed but I can tell that it is there now and pray it doesn't get rally bad. The physician did say Blepharitis and Rosacea go hand in hand.
I have never actually heard of Rosacea. I will have to research it.,
Hi Melissa
Sorry to hear you too have blepharitis. I've had it for about 10 years now and as has been stated there is no known cure sadly.
Mine comes in peaks and troughs at the moment in having another battle with it. I think it's due to the cold weather here in the UK?
There's loads of different ways to try and control it. I read about the wet ones method on here but sadly for me it doesn't work. It makes my eyes just as bad and causes my eyelids to crack and I get sores on my eye lids then the discharge starts. That's not to say it won't work for you though. If you can get them try the be gentle wet ones in the blue packet. They don't contain any alcohol.
Another thing I have read about it using manuka honey to treat it. I'm going to try this next. If that doesn't work then it'll be back to the antibiotics and hydrocortisone for months and months.
Good luck with it all
Hi GroggerLUFC,
Sorry to hear that you have been suffering for so long. I wish they would come up with a cure..
I am about to try the wet ones method, lets see how it goes, Manuka Honey will be my next option too.
Like Sandra I also use Wet Ones Be Gentle ( they have no alcohol but the same antibacterial agent as the others) and have improved enormously in just a week, thanks to Lynda,bless her. I also use a heat pad on my eyes for 5 minutes and massage the lids from nose to temple several times to drain the tiny glands (Melbomian glands, click drawing below) which lubricate the eye balls, then the Wet Ones. I do this three times a day.
My doctor told me of the warmth/massage/clean treatment ( but not of the Wet Ones I will let her know!) and didn't give me any medicaments.
The truth is that i am back to normal . I must have had blepharitis for years only that it flaired up badly in January. My eyes watered all the time and began to be sticky in the morning by when I decided to see the doctor.
I hope you have a quick result with the Wet Ones, Melissa, I think everybody that have tried them have.
Hi Martha,
Thank you for your hope. I have just now (5 minutes ago) done my first round of wet ones! I also do a hot compress morning and night and massage.
I always wonder if I am massaging correctly though. I have viewed your image, thank you for supplying that. Do you suggest a particular way to massage? pushing down towards the lid (top lid) and up towards the lid (bottom lid) or just generally massage around the eye area?
I hope I have the same luck with my eye in a week that you have had.
Thanks Martha.
I am sure you will also be free of the pesky thing soon, Melissa! What you are doing is the same I do.The doctor gave me four pages of info which I tried to copy and paste here but it is not possible. It explained that the massage is done with eyes closed using the tip of one finger on the upper eyelid, from the nose end to the corner at the temple. carefully pressing a bit. Repeating about five to ten times. Then the same on the lower lid.
To measure the five minutes i am with the heated pad on my eyes I use a free app in my Android tablet, called Diving into Silence Lite, which is meant as an alarm to use as a meditation aid. It has gentle sounds to wake you up and also can play white noise. It is very relaxing and makes me look forward to the treatment.
Today I read a lot, a thing I could not do a week ago such was the flood of tears always in my eyes.
Good luck!
Oh about make up I am not using any at the moment but when I buy a new mascara, I intend to wash the wand after each use and let it dry for the next day. Never putting it back in the tube as one does normally. There are also dispossable wands which are very cheap but I do not like to burden the poor planet with so much rubbish.
That is a great idea to wash the mascara after each use! Thank you!!