My Experience of Blepharitis

Like the other opinion before me, I experienced blepharitis, presenting as a sore eye. I let mine go on for ages, and it just felt like a sore eye, sometimes worse, sometimes better. It was better after swimming, and worse in air conditioning. I ended up at the eye clinic at Barnet Hosptial, which functions as an outpost of the Royal Free. I was sent up there urgently by my GP, and they were really great, seeing me within a couple of hours of seeing my GP. They confirmed the diagnosis, and explained it was fairly common in people with eczema, dry skin and so on. They said the treatment was eye hygeine and cleansing. They advised non-irritant detergent. ...

September last year and I was aware of a slight soreness to my right eye. It went on for a couple of days and then suddenly early Saturday morning it became unbearable. I had tears streaming down my face and it felt as though I had a bucket of sand in my eye. I could neither keep it shut nor open, it was painful either way and it was now seriously bloodshot. I went home from work at 7.30am and straight round to the doctor's thinking I had conjunctivitis. My wife had said it was blepharitis (she's done first aid but is a bit of a symptom junkie on the side) and the doc's diagnosis bore this out. Blepharitis, he explained, is effectively ...