On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:45:31 PM UTC-4, Gordon Gilbert wrote:
I've got some inward growing eyelashes near the corner of my left
eye that I believe to be the cause of irritation and pain I've been experiencing for over a year now. I've only been able to find one opthamologist in my area that said he could treat the problem.
Well, he's made two attempts so far, but he used some kind of a
cauterizing instrument which also burned the skin in that area.
Well, both attempts have failed. The lashes have grown right back
and it takes almost a month for the burn damage to heal and hurts
even worse in the mean time. I think this approach is pointless.
From what I read about true elecrolysis, a needle-like device is
inserted into the hair shaft and the hair root is zapped with some
low current. This damages the hair root and the hairs usually don't
grow back and if they do, a 2nd or 3rd treatment should do it. I
haven't been able to find an eye doctor that uses the real thing and
of course no licensed electrolysis person will go anywhere near the
eye. I know I read on a web site about such eyelash problems that electrolysis is a possible treatment method.
I've seen a home electrolysis kit that uses the needle method (and
I've read the needle method is the only really effective method),
but the kits I've looked at all say to *NOT* use it to remove
certain types of hair including eyelashes. My question is that only
because it's not generally considered safe to have a needles near
the eye or is there some other reason that you shouldn't use
electrolysis on eyelashes? After over a year of pain and seeing
over a dozen (useless) doctors, it's getting to the point where I'd
rather take my chances than suffer the rest of my life.... I've
just spotted a new lash starting to grow on my right eyelid now
that's heading in the same direction and so the problem only seems
to be getting worse over time (I've been getting new hairs in
different places over my body for the past couple of years so I'm
not totally surprised to find new ones on my eyelids, but these are
too close to the eye and growing the wrong direction.)
If anyone knows of a good solution, let me know please. Thanks.
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:45:31 PM UTC-4, Gordon Gilbert wrote:
I've got some inward growing eyelashes near the corner of my left
eye that I believe to be the cause of irritation and pain I've been experiencing for over a year now. I've only been able to find one opthamologist in my area that said he could treat the problem.
Well, he's made two attempts so far, but he used some kind of a
cauterizing instrument which also burned the skin in that area.
Well, both attempts have failed. The lashes have grown right back
and it takes almost a month for the burn damage to heal and hurts
even worse in the mean time. I think this approach is pointless.
From what I read about true elecrolysis, a needle-like device is
inserted into the hair shaft and the hair root is zapped with some
low current. This damages the hair root and the hairs usually don't
grow back and if they do, a 2nd or 3rd treatment should do it. I
haven't been able to find an eye doctor that uses the real thing and
of course no licensed electrolysis person will go anywhere near the
eye. I know I read on a web site about such eyelash problems that electrolysis is a possible treatment method.
I've seen a home electrolysis kit that uses the needle method (and
I've read the needle method is the only really effective method),
but the kits I've looked at all say to *NOT* use it to remove
certain types of hair including eyelashes. My question is that only
because it's not generally considered safe to have a needles near
the eye or is there some other reason that you shouldn't use
electrolysis on eyelashes? After over a year of pain and seeing
over a dozen (useless) doctors, it's getting to the point where I'd
rather take my chances than suffer the rest of my life.... I've
just spotted a new lash starting to grow on my right eyelid now
that's heading in the same direction and so the problem only seems
to be getting worse over time (I've been getting new hairs in
different places over my body for the past couple of years so I'm
not totally surprised to find new ones on my eyelids, but these are
too close to the eye and growing the wrong direction.)
If anyone knows of a good solution, let me know please. Thanks.
On Tuesday, September 3, 2002 at 10:45:31 PM UTC-4, Gordon Gilbert wrote:
I've got some inward growing eyelashes near the corner of my left
eye that I believe to be the cause of irritation and pain I've been experiencing for over a year now. I've only been able to find one opthamologist in my area that said he could treat the problem.
Well, he's made two attempts so far, but he used some kind of a
cauterizing instrument which also burned the skin in that area.
Well, both attempts have failed. The lashes have grown right back
and it takes almost a month for the burn damage to heal and hurts
even worse in the mean time. I think this approach is pointless.
From what I read about true elecrolysis, a needle-like device is
inserted into the hair shaft and the hair root is zapped with some
low current. This damages the hair root and the hairs usually don't
grow back and if they do, a 2nd or 3rd treatment should do it. I
haven't been able to find an eye doctor that uses the real thing and
of course no licensed electrolysis person will go anywhere near the
eye. I know I read on a web site about such eyelash problems that electrolysis is a possible treatment method.
I've seen a home electrolysis kit that uses the needle method (and
I've read the needle method is the only really effective method),
but the kits I've looked at all say to *NOT* use it to remove
certain types of hair including eyelashes. My question is that only
because it's not generally considered safe to have a needles near
the eye or is there some other reason that you shouldn't use
electrolysis on eyelashes? After over a year of pain and seeing
over a dozen (useless) doctors, it's getting to the point where I'd
rather take my chances than suffer the rest of my life.... I've
just spotted a new lash starting to grow on my right eyelid now
that's heading in the same direction and so the problem only seems
to be getting worse over time (I've been getting new hairs in
different places over my body for the past couple of years so I'm
not totally surprised to find new ones on my eyelids, but these are
too close to the eye and growing the wrong direction.)
If anyone knows of a good solution, let me know please. Thanks.
I have the same problem, but from eyelids rolling inward. I had two operations that did not last. Now I go to an eye DR. every so often and have him pull out the thin ones that I cannot see, In-between I purchased a 15x lighted mirror and a really good
pair of tweezers and I pull a lot of them myself.
You have to be really careful so you do not poke your eye, I rest my hand on my cheek area to ground it, then I reach with my fingers and tweezers.
Its not perfect but you can control it a little bit by getting the really bad offenders.
It just feels like a little pinch.
Maybe you can, if it is not severe, just get a Dr. to pull them every now and then, They are really equipped to do it with powerful magnification and great lighting as well as the equipment to hold your head steady.
Good luck
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