Despite seeing multiple docs, my eye watered excessively for 7 years until I took this picture
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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The little eyelash was the culprit?
I’m glad the picture helped
Did you pull it?
I’ve had those a couple of times before. Mine didn’t make me tear but got long enough to really irritate my eye. Always felt like a tickle in my eye and I was constantly rubbing it until I figured out it was an opposite-growing lash.
Haven’t had one for quite a while. I’m probably due.
That’s crazy that no doctor had noticed this
This reminds me of when i constantly had the feeling of there being something in my eyes, every single day for years on end. I was rinsing my eyes out with water in hopes to get “it” out of my eyes, always pulling my eyelids up to see if something was there,.. The feeling drove me crazy.
Until i found out i actually just had “dry eyes”, wich was caused by me going over my eyes with my facewash everyday. I stopped doing that and never felt like there was something in my eyes again.
Leaky eye Luca from Jojo’s?
I had the very same issue… happy for you that you found out. I have to pull it once every 4-6 months now…
7 years??? And no doctor saw that? Omg- glad you‘re fine again tho!!
I’m not gonna lie. That would be more than mildly infuriating to me lol
doctors seem to be on auto pilot mode unless the patient is very insistent.
Sad my dog got better treatment.
She had this and we had surgery to treat it so it never came back.
How did all the doctors not notice this? Are they all blind
Gotta love how eyelashes are meant to keep stuff out of your eyes but then they pull shit like this…
You need a better eye doctor, I could have seen that one
Im surprised your eyes was able to water for that long. My eyes would’ve just dried up years ago.
This happened to me on an early ish date with my now wife, cried all the way through a showing of the lion king… she said later she thought I was just emotional 😁 Got back to the hotel later and found the tiniest eye lash causing massive heartache 😩😩
Did you tell your doctors about this?
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It didn’t just fall out on its own in seven years? Not to mention that just looks like an eyelash that has only existed for a month
Not calling you a liar, i’m just kinda confused about this
Yeah eyelashes do that occasionally. the best solution is to just get a friend with good eyes and steady hands to pluck it out with a pair of Flathead tweezers
I thought this was the cover to the texas chainsaw massacre 4k bluray cover lol
Had something to this last month. Eye became very red and irritated and felt like something was in it. No amount of rubbing or flushing solved it. Broke down and went to an eye doctor and had two of these fuckers. He plucked them in seconds and I immediately felt relief. Cost me over $160 for literally 20 seconds of work.
Holy crap. My eye has been watering for like the last month! I’m going to have my wife take a look asap
7 years 👀
Had the same problem. 2 optometrists and an ophthalmologist somehow failed to notice the problem. Fortunately, the 4th doctor I saw was competent and noticed the problem pretty much immediately.
I know that frustrating feeling – mine was dehydration. It always happened after drinking the previous night and lasted for anything from a few hours to a few days.
Turns out the dehydration from drinking was drying my eyes out, so although my eye was visibly clean, it felt like there was a sharp particle of sand stuck in there.
Drinking before bed and/or hydrating eye drops fixed it overnight.
You see bad eye doctors
Doctors are so useless these days
It’s amazing what a picture can cure!
Oh my gosh! Finally somebody that can relate. I don’t even know how many years it was but my right eye would go crazy itchy. I ended up having a tiny lash in the outside corner of my eye that was growing downwards from my eyelid and would constantly be scratching my eye. Not fun to try to pluck it but the best relief in the world.
I have an eyelash like this that grows down until it touches my eye, I have to pluck it every few months when it gets long enough. I hate it so much. I tried to mention it to an ophthalmologist and they just kind of shrugged and said to pluck it… I was hoping they would offer to permanently remove it or something.
I have a broken leg, I’m going to take a picture of it.
God I had one like that near the inner corner of my eyelid and it grew back fast every time, would always curl right up and into my dang eye. Nonstop irritation & tearing. Just realized I haven’t had issues with it for a while, maybe all the plucking eventually convinced it to change its ways
it seems like an ingrown eyelash hair and there’s a bump there, so it might have been messing with the sensitive nerves in the area causing you to tear up.. you need to revist every eye doctor ask them WTF. and possibly get yoru money back.
it’s crazy to me that such a small little thing can cause a huge problem for you for years. i’m happy you found this out!!
I’m sure this is what causes my eyes to water but I can not bear the thought of plucking something from that part of my eye.
I usually get ingrown hairs when I pluck. I shudder thinking about one growing there
Happened to me before but the doctor caught it. He said it would be a continual issue for my life but he would remove it. He pulled it out and it never came back again. Cheers to both of us!
The same thing happened to me for over 5 years. The doctors couldn’t find anything, family thought I was crazy and then ONE DAY, BAM. I found the issue and removed it myself. Never had the problem again.
I bought one of those magnifying lighted makeup mirrors and some seriously excellent $50 Swiss tweezers to deal with mine.
Some of mine are so fine that they slip through regular tweezers.
How could the docs not see this?
Did it feel bad? Or just make your eye water?
yeah i had similar experience with an eyelash growing like that its annoying AF…
You were a JoJo reference for 7 years, nice!
Exactly this has happened to me several times; a tiny almost invisible lash poking the edge of my eyeball. I had more of an irritation than eye watering. Very relieving to yank those nasty little things
I had an eyelash that was growing inward like that. It was so annoying. I plucked it out a couple times and it stopped growing.
Just looking at this makes my eyes itchy. Lol
I get these in multiple areas and pluck them about once a month.
Glad you found it and got some relief!
Ugh probably feels for fucking good to scratch 😩
It’s ok to pluck that