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I've had enough, so I treated myself

dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
edited April 2010 in General Discussion
I had a big sty appear on my left eye a few weeks ago. The doctor gave me eye drops and eye goop of some kind, and I've been using it for over two weeks with no change.

Today I have had enough and went out to the toolbox and got my cleanest set on needle nosed pliers. I squished that baby until it drained all of the crap out of it, and now my eyelide is back down to normal size.

So much for high dollar doctors and treatments that are ineffective and take forever. I should have done this in the beginning and gotten it over with.

But, DANG THAT HURT!!!!!![V]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Daggone Danny! That's rough...[B)]
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,234 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    Yep, a little peroxide on it and you'll be good to go.[^]
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Daggone Danny! That's rough...[B)]


    Every man has a breaking point, and I had reached mine.[;)]
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  • n/an/a Member Posts: 168,427 ✭
    edited November -1
    Belinda said to tell you to make sure you throw away your eye liner and mascara, or you will get reinfected.[;)][}:)][:D]
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,234 ***** Forums Admin
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Belinda said to tell you to make sure you throw away your eye liner and mascara, or you will get reinfected.[;)][}:)][:D]
    Now it's gonna get expensive![:D]
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by ECC
    Belinda said to tell you to make sure you throw away your eye liner and mascara, or you will get reinfected.[;)][}:)][:D]


    What? No more Goth!!!!! My friends won't recognize me at the vampire meetings!!!! Oh lord, what will I do????[}:)]

    Oh well, I can still use the balck fingernail polish and fake fangs![:D]
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  • fishkiller41fishkiller41 Member Posts: 50,608
    edited November -1
    Went to the Dentist with a tooth ache, was given a scrip. for antibiotics.(over $100) took them, went back to dentist.Still wouldn't pull tooth.Wanted to give me a $2500.oo root canal that admitedly would prob only save the tooth for about 2 years. 3rd molar back, on the top right side.
    I went home got a wet,clean wash rag and my "duckbills" out the tool box. Wrapped the washrag around the pliers, reached in add got a grip.Gave it twist and a yank "POP"! Came right out.Bit on a cotton ball with a little peroxide on it for 30-45 min. no more blood.
    I can prove it,because I have the tooth, right here.(Dentists WILL NOT LET U TAKE TEETH HOME)I'll take a pic of it sitting on my ID and post it here.
    toothipulled.jpg
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    DANG, Danny, why did you wait til it got that big?!?!? I usually do the gold ring trick a day or so into it and its gone!!![:0][B)]
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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by matwor
    DANG, Danny, why did you wait til it got that big?!?!? I usually do the gold ring trick a day or so into it and its gone!!![:0][B)]


    Because I have no clue what the "gold ring" trick is. Enlighten me so I don't have to go through this again. Like I said, that hurt!
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  • kumateliveskumatelives Member Posts: 2,609
    edited November -1
    will health care reform cover the price of the pliers and peroxide,you should get an educational rebate for knowing what to do
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  • matwormatwor Member Posts: 20,594
    edited November -1
    Whenever I feel one coming on which has only been 3-4 times in my 40+ yrs., I have taken a gold ring and rubbed it on the affected area several times a day, as often as I think about for a coupla days and it usually disappears. People also say to use a silver dime, and rub the edge on it. Personally I think it is just the massaging of the area that breaks up the blockage.
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Danny, Fishkiller, I bet the both of you CLANK when you walk. IT takes a PAIR of steel to do that to yourselves.

    WOW.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    whadda ya mean you can't take your own tooth home....damn dentist gettin the tooth fairy cash on top of his overpriced bill ????????
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  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by fishkiller41
    Went to the Dentist with a tooth ache, was given a scrip. for antibiotics.(over $100) took them, went back to dentist.Still wouldn't pull tooth.Wanted to give me a $2500.oo root canal that admitedly would prob only save the tooth for about 2 years. 3rd molar back, on the top right side.
    I went home got a wet,clean wash rag and my "duckbills" out the tool box. Wrapped the washrag around the pliers, reached in add got a grip.Gave it twist and a yank "POP"! Came right out.Bit on a cotton ball with a little peroxide on it for 30-45 min. no more blood.
    I can prove it,because I have the tooth, right here.(Dentists WILL NOT LET U TAKE TEETH HOME)I'll take a pic of it sitting on my ID and post it here.
    toothipulled.jpg


    Man, that tooth looks pretty healthy to me. Are you sure you pulled the correct one?
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  • MrOrangeMrOrange Member Posts: 3,012
    edited November -1
    I got one a while back, and the eye goop from the doc knocked it right down. But, the pliers! No, not the pliers!

    I would've had to get good and snockered before trying something like that. Both that and the tooth thing made me flinch, but I think the tooth would've been worse.
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  • RamtinxxlRamtinxxl Member Posts: 9,480
    edited November -1
    What? No video?
































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  • trapguy2007trapguy2007 Member Posts: 8,959
    edited November -1
    I went to the eye doctor a few years ago to get one drained .
    If I had known up front what was going to be done to me ---I would have carried my 45 .
    The shot of Lidocain to the eyelid was enough --but that piece of #2 rebar that he used to rod the thing out was the killer .
    Loritab was my friend for the next 2 days !!!![;)]
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  • JnRockwallJnRockwall Member Posts: 16,352 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    you are a rock.

    Next time have a shot of turkey, or something.
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  • searcher5searcher5 Member Posts: 13,511 ✭
    edited November -1
    Was always told you get stys when you pee in the road. You might want to avoid that in the future![:D]
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    When in high school , and someone got a sty in the eye. We would all use are class rings. We would rub are rings on are poops and get them good and warm Then the person would put the warm rings on their sty. It worked, don't ask me why or how.
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  • victorlvlbvictorlvlb Member Posts: 5,004
    edited November -1
    I don't now how poops got there , it should of read shirts?
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  • freaknastyfreaknasty Member Posts: 343 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My daughter had one not to long ago went to eye doc. he said he could lance it or go home put hot wash cloth on it. She did that but also she had one of those aromatherapy pillows? The kind you can put in microwave or freezer (feels like polishing media to me)? She heated it up put on eye 3/4 days was gone. Heat is the key to break up clog to allow to drain.
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  • minitruck83minitruck83 Member Posts: 5,369
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by searcher5
    Was always told you get stys when you pee in the road. You might want to avoid that in the future![:D]


    You are supposed to spit in the puddle afterwords! [:D]

    I think I've figured out the thinking behind this... bending over to be sure you hit it with the spit, will allow the fumes to hit your face. Whatever is in the fumes is beneficial to the eyes.
    (got this idea after reading about the pygmy's remedy for spitting cobra venom)






    Allen
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  • tr foxtr fox Member Posts: 13,856
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by victorlvlb
    I don't now how poops got there , it should of read shirts?


    Glad you clarified that. I was going crazy trying to visiluze you guys rubbing your class rings on your "poops."
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  • hk-91hk-91 Member Posts: 10,050
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by tr fox
    quote:Originally posted by victorlvlb
    I don't now how poops got there , it should of read shirts?


    Glad you clarified that. I was going crazy trying to visiluze you guys rubbing your class rings on your "poops."


    Guess i thought they got confused and used a p instead of a b
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  • River RatRiver Rat Member Posts: 9,022 ✭
    edited November -1
    I got one of those a couple of months ago. It's still with me, although it shrank a bit after plenty of hot compresses. And fiddling with it. I'm putting peroxide on it too, but while it has helped it hasn't killed it yet.

    Doctors? I don't go to doctors. Too expensive. I'll wait 'til I break something.
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  • partisanpartisan Member Posts: 6,414
    edited November -1
    Good job!!!! My Father use to heat a bobby-pin with his zippo lighter, and use the loop end to get the sty! Worked great, but as you said,"damn that hurt!"
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  • proappproapp Member Posts: 3,264
    edited November -1
    so i got these roids, thinking a pair of dikes(klines, of course) and a lit cig to burn em shut.
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  • burdz19burdz19 Member Posts: 4,145
    edited November -1
    now that would have been a good test of a programmer Danny...... 1/16" ball nose endmill your head clamped in a Kurt Vise on a VF-3.....[;)][:D][:D][:D][:D] Heck I bet if you called 'ol Joe he'd tell you he sells endmills designed for exactly that use [;)][;)][:D][:D][:D]


    edited- cause I can't spell
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by proapp
    so i got these roids, thinking a pair of dikes(klines, of course) and a lit cig to burn em shut.



    Tried it, it will not last. Don
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  • proappproapp Member Posts: 3,264
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by proapp
    so i got these roids, thinking a pair of dikes(klines, of course) and a lit cig to burn em shut.



    Tried it, it will not last. Don


    you a bad man....
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by proapp
    quote:Originally posted by dcon12
    quote:Originally posted by proapp
    so i got these roids, thinking a pair of dikes(klines, of course) and a lit cig to burn em shut.



    Tried it, it will not last. Don


    you a bad man....



    How can you tell without knowing my height & weight? Don
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