I am a 17 year old female. When I was 16 I started to get these repeated cases of a swollen and puffy right eyelid. At first they treated it as conjunctivitis but it took 3 weeks to fully heal. It occurs about once every 3 months and there are no triggers that we know of. It lasts around 1-2 weeks depending on the treatment, they've tried antibiotics, antihistemines and steroids. The problem is, nothing has stopped it coming back. I had allergy testing done and they came back high (which we knew anyway), and I'm already on daily fexofenodine for these. If it was just the puffy eye I could deal with it, even when it gets to the point where I cannot physically pull the lids apart, I just hate how unwell it makes me feel. I get sinus pain for atound a week prior to the episode, so I can generally tell when it will happen. Then when it does I get headaches, feel like theres pressure building up behind my eynd I get a temperature whilst it also making es me really tired. It has also made my eyes very sensetive to light. I have recently been to see a dermatologist with a speciality in eyelids as all the doctors/opthamologists I have seen are baffled by me! She thinks it is probably caused by allergies but we don't get why it is only the right eye, and neither does she. I have been booked in for an MRI scan to check that nothing has been missed, and its not cellulitis or a thyroid problem. I posted on here to see if anyone has any advice or similar stories? I'm in the middle of my A levels and have already taken too much time off because of it! I just realky want it to go away and never come back!
Any help is welcome!