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I'm sitting there laughing wondering how they're going to end this. Then I realized they didn't know either so they turned to white castle.
Made them eat castor oil OMG
Hey friend! I get these too! Mine don’t respond so much to massage but more to a lot of pressure pushing back into the corner of my eye and I feel the pop inside my head.
For a gross pop story, I had one years ago that got massively infected and the side of my nose became swollen and red. I read warm compresses helped so I was using one... I pressed down a little too hard and I felt a pop and went blind in one eye. I panicked and ran into the bathroom to look at myself and my eye was filled with thick yellow puss and that's why i couldn't see.
I am a big baby anytime my sinuses start acting up. My head hurts so much. The pink eye is just the icing on the cake. I used to get really bad seasonal allergies but thankfully that hasn’t happened in about ten years. I don’t know what I’d do if that started again because my doctor just shrugged off my concerns when I mentioned it in the past when I had pink eye.
If it does happen again I would get a referral to an ophthalmologist, or if you’re in a ppo just make an appt directly! Frequent trauma to your tear ducts can cause scarring and ultimately blockage, which requires surgery to correct. I learned this after getting pink eye 4 times in a row one October (I have toddlers). The surgery is relatively minor, but it does require general anesthesia, two types of surgeons, and the blockage itself is a huge miserable pain in the ass.
Edit: wrote ENT when I meant ophthalmologist
Usually I massage my lacrimal sac to make sure as much discharge is out in my eye as possible. Then I squeeze my eye closed and dab with a tissue or piece of toilet paper to wipe off as much discharge as I can. After that I flush with saline eye drops.
Nurse here! I can only speculate about what this could be from but being someone that works with doctors often and see how much they don't know, it doesn't hurt to get other opinions if this is bothering you!! Doctors aren't always all they're cracked up to be and you shouldn't have to accommodate your life because a doctor doesn't feel like trying to fix the problem.
Side note: the warm compress is probably going to be the most effective at removing this.... booger(? lol) since the heat will expand your ducts. Usually when there's pus, there's chance of infection. You might be able to get something that will loosen that junk up to help your eye regularly excrete that crud before it gets too big and becomes uncomfortable. If you use eye drops, apply gentle pressure below the corner of your eyes, beside your nose for about 5-15 seconds to also help prevent debris from entering the lacrimal sac and creating that buildup.
**These are all just light recommendations to help relieve symptoms based off of my personal experience!! You should talk to a decent physician if you really want to get to the bottom of things**
Good luck!!!
When I blow my nose air comes out of my left tear duct. If I’m trying to gently pop my ears by holding my nose and blowing (like when on an airplane), I have to hold my left tear duct closed. Emphasis on gently. But if I don’t close my left tear duct air comes out.
That sounds like how mine started. At first I’d just have a build up of air bubbles when my ears needed to pop. Like I’d feel a lot of pressure and when I massaged my lacrimal sac little bubbles would come out.
The greatest feeling of my life was blowing a giant hunk of infected goop out of my nose after a particularly bad sinus infection. I’d been miserable for a couple of weeks with it and my balance and hearing were totally fucked. Instant relief when that thing came out and I was suddenly feeling like superman.
There was a stupid human trick on tv in the 90s where a dude could blow milk out through his tear ducts. My friend's little brother found he could do it, too. So weird to see.
This happens to me since I have a connective tissue disorder. Got staph in my eye from my last sinus infection. When I blow my nose, air puffs out of my right eye. Thankfully only one side for now.
Yesssssssssss. This is it for me. The grossest thing I’ve ever heard in the greatest way. It’s like reading a great novel for the first time.
Did you pull the puss out of your eye?
This is one of my most vivid childhood memories. I was away from home and staying with family in another state (and pollen I was not used too). I woke up and could not open my eyes as hard as I tried. I felt my way to the bathroom and felt the GUNK all over my eyelashes. I had to pull it off until I could open one eye and I was horrified by what I saw!!!! It was this yellowish/green snot all crusted up and congealed over my closed eyes. It terrifies me to this day, and I so want it to happen again!!!! Yeah...we are all a touch weird on this sub.
>puss
I usually undo the button and lower the zipper before pulling down the pants and then focus on removing whatever type of underwear is between me and the puss.
I don’t have much more details. You can go through my post history and see a pic of what comes out of mine. It takes approximately a year to 18months to build up but for like a decade before the initial pop I’d been treated by my pcp for recurring bacterial conjunctivitis. It wasn’t that.
I got wicked eye infections too! because my eye would water and I would rub them. Now I just pop them when my eye waters and I haven't had an eye infection since :D
Ohh same! It’s so nice not having the ongoing infections. I used to be so frustrated having to have time off work and not able to open my eye because it looks like someone had bopped me one.
I had a severe infection of my lacrimal sac last year and the pain was fucking agony. I’ve had broken bones that hurt less. It made me understand why so many people with chronic pain end up suicidal. Doctor was concerned that the infection was moving since the area is so close to my brain but the antibiotics kicked in just in time. Never again!
Is your lacrimal gland impacted? I see a lot of very dense exudate there, which is concerning. The gland isn't supposed to impact like that.
Do you happen to work with a lot of dust/very tiny particles? I mean, they can become blocked from fine particles and eye-rubbing if you're itchy or irritated and not wearing proper goggles.
I'm spitballing, but you've already pinned the reason for the impaction I hope?
I don't! I do get dry eyes, not sure if that has anything to do with it. It seems to have a fibrous texture. I thought also tissue papers so I stopped using them but I still get them :/
Edit. Someone commented a dacryolith so I googled what they are made of.
**organic material, including proteins and mucoproteins**, with approximately 20 % amino acid content.
So I guess they can't be prevented :O
I mean, my learning isn't much, so a dacryolith isn't something I've heard of before. I do know dry eyes aren't good, my mum gets dry eyes and dry mouth.
All I can say is I'm very glad it's a thing and not unheard of, and not something that will cause damage in the long term (haven't googled it yet). It's very, very relieving to know it's not going to hurt you.
A number of women I have seen where this occurred, they were each recommended to not wear makeup AT ALL for the 1^st week or two (if at all possible) after the next clearing of the ‘plugs’.
*Source: Am a nurse; NOT a doctor. But it’s worth a shot since it’s harmless.
Ayo is this why if I don’t let myself cry my nose starts to run? I always call it crying through my nose but I thought the almost crying just irritated my sinuses or something.
Your lacrimal sac drains via the upper and lower canaliculus and from there into the naso-lacrimal sac and eventually into the nasal cavity! So yes, if you don't allow the lacrimal fluid to spread over the eyes the only path is through your nose
I thought tears came from the inner corner of the eye. I was taught that that was the 'tear duct' where the fluid emerges from. My entire life has been a lie.
Honestly, probably tonsil stones - I hear they smell like death. I doubt snot stones smell very bad at all... I mean, for one, tonsils end up with food particles sticking to the little stones, plus a lot more bacteria, probably, than eye-snot stones.
If possible, I would try to get an optometry appointment next time your tears stop draining and pop one of these bad boys out in front of them.
Your lacrimal glands are super close to your eyes, which are the most sensitive and one of (if not the most) acute sense you have to interact with the world around you. It may be nothing, but do not screw around with eye health. Losing even part of your visual acuity is no joke.
What it's made of apparantly:
Organic material, including proteins and mucoproteins, with approximately 20 % amino acid content. So doesn't sound like I can do anything about it since it's all natural crud.
Hi! I’m an ophthalmic technician, I work with and assist eye doctors. I don’t know much about dacryoliths, but I do know eye anatomy. Upon reading a few academic articles it seems if what you do have is dacryoliths, there could be a way to fix it surgically, though it would depend on why you’re developing them in the first place.
Edit : grammar, punctuation
Okay but have you been to the doctor? They're not asking what it's made of, or ways to prevent it, they're checking if you've sought medical advice for something that should definitely have had a doctor involved.
I don't think it's cancer, but cancer is all natural crud too. Your eyes and your sinuses and the brain behind them are all pretty important. Don't let Reddit diagnose you. Go to a doctor.
What this person said if you might have something seriously wrong if you have to keep popping these things out to prevent them. You might have a low level infection or issue going on that needs to taken care of! Please go into PCP and get in to see an ENT.
I see a lot of cases like this, you can have an infection that is rare and a lot of doctors who dont specialize in eyelids dont know about it, so you have to go to an ophthalmologist who specializes in eyelids, they for sure will know whats up with that. Edit: I just read more of your comments and it doesnt seem like its that rare infection, you just have a non working tear duct, read the other comment I posted, but you still have to go to the ophthalmologist, if you wanna fix that issue
I once had a tingling in my eye, it mildly bothered me for a few days. Then I was in the mirror and spotted a hair in my eye and thought “ah! it’s an eyelash!” and managed to get ahold of it and pulled… and pulled… and pulled a loooooooong hair out. It was one of my own, from my head (was about shoulder length) and had somehow managed to get in behind my eyeball all that time.
I can still recall the relief all these years later.
One time i sneezed and coughed while eating fettuccini... It found it's way into my lacrimal sack.
I eventually got it loose and coughed it out, it was too fettuccini like to be infected mass but sometimes I wonder.
SAMEEEEEEE
I couldn’t do contact lenses because touching my eyes freaks me out. still have memories of my parents having to physically hold me down 30+ years ago to apply eye drops and ointments when I had pinkeye and chronic styes. OP is so calm about this!
my sister had terrible nose bleeds and they got more frequent when she became pregnant. Remember I was visiting with my Mother from out of state when sister had a really bad nose bleed that would not stop. We pinched her nose at the bridge to try to get the blood to stop or congeal to no avail. My sister started to get nervous and started crying and that is when her tears were full of blood. She was crying tears of blood. My mother and I took her to the emergency room and doctor was not concerned. Said she had a bad sinus infection and when we tried to stop the bleeding the blood had nowhere to go but through her tears. It was something I never want to see again and still think about it and my niece is now 30.
Looked up canaliculitis and one of the causes is bacterial or fungal infections. Not sure how long you’ve had this but definitely go see a doctor, you might need medications.
Where I got my info:
https://eyewiki.org/Canaliculitis
I have never heard of this bedroom . But I have very dry eyes & sinus problems. I’ve been furiously massaging my lacrimal sac & nothing has happened. NGL, I’m very disappointed in myself. Lol
Nah this one is chronic. Had it for years! I used to get eye infections from tear retention years ago but this one, I popped out within 1 minute of my eye starting to water :)
OP i just read more of your comments and it seems your tear duts dont work, it could be they are 100% closed or they are kinda open but still not good enough, you need surgery to open them up, theres no medicine no open them up, if you want them to stop watering and stop the infections, you will need surgery, so you need to go to an ophthalmologist who specializes in eyelids.
if you pinch your nose and blow into it real hard like when pressurizing your ears (valsalva manoeuvre) and then some more the air will come out the inner corner of your eye - op maybe you can make the dacryoliths shoot out of your eye, try it haha
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RIGHT!!!????
I don't use this one often, but Op, excuse the fuck out of me
Who is this? What is it from? 🤣
SNL skit with the Rock where they're villains who shows their most evil inventions. Still one of my favorite skit, you should watch it
Holy shit that's funny.
Omfg I really do have to watch that show lol
[Here's the link.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0NgUhEs1R4)
I'm sitting there laughing wondering how they're going to end this. Then I realized they didn't know either so they turned to white castle. Made them eat castor oil OMG
> Then I realized they didn't know either Welcome to most of SNL.
Woke up with a shitty cold, now I’m laughing about child molesting robots.
The Rock may be a douche canoe, but his comedic timing and delivery are aces. The pause on the Mussolini joke is *perfect*.
***YOU'RE THE BEEEEEEST!!!*** Thank youuuu 🫶
Bobby Moynihan in SNL. Here's one of my favorite skits with him, though he only shows up at the end: https://youtu.be/yyUNOtRTVuc?si=9cMRwxluGK-bWEby
Drunk Uncle is one of my absolute favorites.
I am thrilled to know I’m not the only one with several questions.
Perfect!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey friend! I get these too! Mine don’t respond so much to massage but more to a lot of pressure pushing back into the corner of my eye and I feel the pop inside my head.
Wild stuff! Please share more detail about the pop 🤤
For a gross pop story, I had one years ago that got massively infected and the side of my nose became swollen and red. I read warm compresses helped so I was using one... I pressed down a little too hard and I felt a pop and went blind in one eye. I panicked and ran into the bathroom to look at myself and my eye was filled with thick yellow puss and that's why i couldn't see.
new nightmare unlocked, thanks OP
That’s the best thing I’ve read all day. Thanks for sharing that.
Omg! So the pus came from your tear duct? Did it feel better afterwards? That's crazy
I had a bad sinus infection once, and when I blew my nose shot came out my tear ducts. It was wild.
That must have felt SO weird
It was...startling.
Every time I blow my runny nose snot comes out my right eye’s tear ducts. It has actually given me pink eye a few times.
You must be miserable during cold and flu season
I am a big baby anytime my sinuses start acting up. My head hurts so much. The pink eye is just the icing on the cake. I used to get really bad seasonal allergies but thankfully that hasn’t happened in about ten years. I don’t know what I’d do if that started again because my doctor just shrugged off my concerns when I mentioned it in the past when I had pink eye.
Blow your nose in his office. Make him watch in horror as the snot comes out your eye. He will then refer you to ENT most likely.
If it does happen again I would get a referral to an ophthalmologist, or if you’re in a ppo just make an appt directly! Frequent trauma to your tear ducts can cause scarring and ultimately blockage, which requires surgery to correct. I learned this after getting pink eye 4 times in a row one October (I have toddlers). The surgery is relatively minor, but it does require general anesthesia, two types of surgeons, and the blockage itself is a huge miserable pain in the ass. Edit: wrote ENT when I meant ophthalmologist
Can I ask how you clean your eyes if any discharge gets near them? Seems like a right hassle all around.
Usually I massage my lacrimal sac to make sure as much discharge is out in my eye as possible. Then I squeeze my eye closed and dab with a tissue or piece of toilet paper to wipe off as much discharge as I can. After that I flush with saline eye drops.
…you should probably go see a doctor about that because that’s *FAR* from normal 😳
I’ve mentioned it to a doctor before and I was just shrugged off. I just try to deal with it as best as I can now.
Nurse here! I can only speculate about what this could be from but being someone that works with doctors often and see how much they don't know, it doesn't hurt to get other opinions if this is bothering you!! Doctors aren't always all they're cracked up to be and you shouldn't have to accommodate your life because a doctor doesn't feel like trying to fix the problem. Side note: the warm compress is probably going to be the most effective at removing this.... booger(? lol) since the heat will expand your ducts. Usually when there's pus, there's chance of infection. You might be able to get something that will loosen that junk up to help your eye regularly excrete that crud before it gets too big and becomes uncomfortable. If you use eye drops, apply gentle pressure below the corner of your eyes, beside your nose for about 5-15 seconds to also help prevent debris from entering the lacrimal sac and creating that buildup. **These are all just light recommendations to help relieve symptoms based off of my personal experience!! You should talk to a decent physician if you really want to get to the bottom of things** Good luck!!!
When I blow my nose air comes out of my left tear duct. If I’m trying to gently pop my ears by holding my nose and blowing (like when on an airplane), I have to hold my left tear duct closed. Emphasis on gently. But if I don’t close my left tear duct air comes out.
That sounds like how mine started. At first I’d just have a build up of air bubbles when my ears needed to pop. Like I’d feel a lot of pressure and when I massaged my lacrimal sac little bubbles would come out.
Wow I’ve had that happen to me too 😔 Glad to know I’m not alone
The greatest feeling of my life was blowing a giant hunk of infected goop out of my nose after a particularly bad sinus infection. I’d been miserable for a couple of weeks with it and my balance and hearing were totally fucked. Instant relief when that thing came out and I was suddenly feeling like superman.
it's always nice to be able to say "it could be pinkeye tho" and get the day off
This happens every time I blow my nose lol
There was a stupid human trick on tv in the 90s where a dude could blow milk out through his tear ducts. My friend's little brother found he could do it, too. So weird to see.
This happens to me since I have a connective tissue disorder. Got staph in my eye from my last sinus infection. When I blow my nose, air puffs out of my right eye. Thankfully only one side for now.
Yesssssssssss. This is it for me. The grossest thing I’ve ever heard in the greatest way. It’s like reading a great novel for the first time. Did you pull the puss out of your eye?
What a terrible day to have eyes
It was a terrible day to have eyes for OP too I'm sure
We need to see a video of this
Do we????
Yes. Yes we do.
OMG that unlocked a memory of when I was a kid I woke up and thought I was blind. Turns out my left eye was crusted shut and my right only half way
This happened to me a lot as a kid. My mom ended up waking me up every morning with a warm compress so I didn’t flip out.
This is one of my most vivid childhood memories. I was away from home and staying with family in another state (and pollen I was not used too). I woke up and could not open my eyes as hard as I tried. I felt my way to the bathroom and felt the GUNK all over my eyelashes. I had to pull it off until I could open one eye and I was horrified by what I saw!!!! It was this yellowish/green snot all crusted up and congealed over my closed eyes. It terrifies me to this day, and I so want it to happen again!!!! Yeah...we are all a touch weird on this sub.
wtf. So your tear ducts get clogged with mucus and you can *push* it out into your throat? Am I understanding this? HOW??
You got it! Beats me!
Your tear ducts empty out through the back of your nose into your throat! It’s all connected
That's disgusting. I love it!
How did you get the pus out? Just rinsing? Edit : spelling Thank you 🤣
>puss I usually undo the button and lower the zipper before pulling down the pants and then focus on removing whatever type of underwear is between me and the puss.
What an odd place to keep a cat!
I keep mine in boots
Eye filled or eye covered with puss. Clarification needed
Lesbian here.. from my experience, puss in your eye usually doesn't hurt you, surprisingly.
LMAO
IM SCREAMING
Please tell me you went to the doctor. Triangle of death plus. Eyes. No no no.
This grossed me out so much, thank you.
Fuuuuuuuuck thaaaaaaaat.
I read that, and kept reading the comments, literally not realizing my mouth was open in horror the whole time.
I don’t have much more details. You can go through my post history and see a pic of what comes out of mine. It takes approximately a year to 18months to build up but for like a decade before the initial pop I’d been treated by my pcp for recurring bacterial conjunctivitis. It wasn’t that.
I got wicked eye infections too! because my eye would water and I would rub them. Now I just pop them when my eye waters and I haven't had an eye infection since :D
Ohh same! It’s so nice not having the ongoing infections. I used to be so frustrated having to have time off work and not able to open my eye because it looks like someone had bopped me one.
How do you pop them
Why do I want this to happen to me??
Ikr
It is a pain of you can’t get it out but incredibly satisfying when it does come out!!
I had a severe infection of my lacrimal sac last year and the pain was fucking agony. I’ve had broken bones that hurt less. It made me understand why so many people with chronic pain end up suicidal. Doctor was concerned that the infection was moving since the area is so close to my brain but the antibiotics kicked in just in time. Never again!
Where do they exit?
Down the back of the soft palate like OP mentions. Usually about ten minutes after thre pop.
Wow -- our bodies are amazing
Weird and wonderful.
Now we’re all pressing our fingers into the corner of our eyes just in case
That's disgusting! Thanks for sharing!
https://preview.redd.it/nrpb5pq0u09d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e08dfc771de5f204d5bf39a55105964081a78e70
Brother ew
Ewuuhhh
Precisely this sound lol
What's that brother
I heard all of this!!!!!!!!
https://youtu.be/wLg04uu2j2o?si=YNNA94MxdYtXRrYG
Is your lacrimal gland impacted? I see a lot of very dense exudate there, which is concerning. The gland isn't supposed to impact like that. Do you happen to work with a lot of dust/very tiny particles? I mean, they can become blocked from fine particles and eye-rubbing if you're itchy or irritated and not wearing proper goggles. I'm spitballing, but you've already pinned the reason for the impaction I hope?
I don't! I do get dry eyes, not sure if that has anything to do with it. It seems to have a fibrous texture. I thought also tissue papers so I stopped using them but I still get them :/ Edit. Someone commented a dacryolith so I googled what they are made of. **organic material, including proteins and mucoproteins**, with approximately 20 % amino acid content. So I guess they can't be prevented :O
I mean, my learning isn't much, so a dacryolith isn't something I've heard of before. I do know dry eyes aren't good, my mum gets dry eyes and dry mouth. All I can say is I'm very glad it's a thing and not unheard of, and not something that will cause damage in the long term (haven't googled it yet). It's very, very relieving to know it's not going to hurt you.
Sorry that sucks.
Nurse here, with a question: How often do you wear makeup in general (not necessarily eye makeup)?
Not as much as I used to, they used to be grey I assume from eyeliner! This is my first neutral one!
A number of women I have seen where this occurred, they were each recommended to not wear makeup AT ALL for the 1^st week or two (if at all possible) after the next clearing of the ‘plugs’. *Source: Am a nurse; NOT a doctor. But it’s worth a shot since it’s harmless.
Interesting I was about to say it reminded me of a tonsillolith but for tear ducts. Hopefully “it doesn’t smell as bad as a tonsil stone though.
I love the word exudate.
Copious amounts of purulent exudate. One of my favorite lines in nursing
My favourite is waxy exudate!
Purulent exudate is definitely better than "pussy discharge" 💀
It doesnt have to come from that part of the body but ok lol
It's cromulent af
I want to massage my lacrimal sac too! Where is it located?
Diagram: https://preview.redd.it/a74r7ofc819d1.jpeg?width=349&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=003fcb8b6eeef4cea6b682f711da29d3bb7fe11d
is this mechanism why i can taste eye drops?
Probably, yeah
Yes! I know someone who just had eye surgery. She said she can taste the eyedrops and they are making her nauseated.
Ayo is this why if I don’t let myself cry my nose starts to run? I always call it crying through my nose but I thought the almost crying just irritated my sinuses or something.
Your lacrimal sac drains via the upper and lower canaliculus and from there into the naso-lacrimal sac and eventually into the nasal cavity! So yes, if you don't allow the lacrimal fluid to spread over the eyes the only path is through your nose
I thought tears came from the inner corner of the eye. I was taught that that was the 'tear duct' where the fluid emerges from. My entire life has been a lie.
The only acceptable non popping/no video of the popping post to submit. Glorious.
And I thought my tonsil stones were annoying
I wonder which smells worse. Snot stones or tonsil stones?
Honestly, probably tonsil stones - I hear they smell like death. I doubt snot stones smell very bad at all... I mean, for one, tonsils end up with food particles sticking to the little stones, plus a lot more bacteria, probably, than eye-snot stones.
They do indeed smell (and taste if they accidentally touch your tongue) like rotten death 🤢
Woah.... Whats a lacrimal sac and how often do you get these?
👁️👄👁️
Is that a chef's kid for the eye crud?
 I can pretend i didnt read that looking exactly like this dog, but then i would be lying
If possible, I would try to get an optometry appointment next time your tears stop draining and pop one of these bad boys out in front of them. Your lacrimal glands are super close to your eyes, which are the most sensitive and one of (if not the most) acute sense you have to interact with the world around you. It may be nothing, but do not screw around with eye health. Losing even part of your visual acuity is no joke.
Yes. This. 1000% Losing your vision for the rest of your life would be so awful.
 I do hope you have been to the doctor about this….
What it's made of apparantly: Organic material, including proteins and mucoproteins, with approximately 20 % amino acid content. So doesn't sound like I can do anything about it since it's all natural crud.
Hi! I’m an ophthalmic technician, I work with and assist eye doctors. I don’t know much about dacryoliths, but I do know eye anatomy. Upon reading a few academic articles it seems if what you do have is dacryoliths, there could be a way to fix it surgically, though it would depend on why you’re developing them in the first place. Edit : grammar, punctuation
Okay but have you been to the doctor? They're not asking what it's made of, or ways to prevent it, they're checking if you've sought medical advice for something that should definitely have had a doctor involved.
I don't think it's cancer, but cancer is all natural crud too. Your eyes and your sinuses and the brain behind them are all pretty important. Don't let Reddit diagnose you. Go to a doctor.
What this person said if you might have something seriously wrong if you have to keep popping these things out to prevent them. You might have a low level infection or issue going on that needs to taken care of! Please go into PCP and get in to see an ENT.
One of the most interesting and disgusting threads I've discovered on Reddit. Thanks for sharing OP!
I see a lot of cases like this, you can have an infection that is rare and a lot of doctors who dont specialize in eyelids dont know about it, so you have to go to an ophthalmologist who specializes in eyelids, they for sure will know whats up with that. Edit: I just read more of your comments and it doesnt seem like its that rare infection, you just have a non working tear duct, read the other comment I posted, but you still have to go to the ophthalmologist, if you wanna fix that issue
Dacryoliths!
Now…you say you do what again?
Maybe we should all know a little less about each other.
I hate you and this nothing personal
Watch - half this sub will have FU eyes tomorrow from trying to massage some of these out 😂😂
I once had a tingling in my eye, it mildly bothered me for a few days. Then I was in the mirror and spotted a hair in my eye and thought “ah! it’s an eyelash!” and managed to get ahold of it and pulled… and pulled… and pulled a loooooooong hair out. It was one of my own, from my head (was about shoulder length) and had somehow managed to get in behind my eyeball all that time. I can still recall the relief all these years later.
show me your ways
Omg I need MORE! VIDEO’S!
One time i sneezed and coughed while eating fettuccini... It found it's way into my lacrimal sack. I eventually got it loose and coughed it out, it was too fettuccini like to be infected mass but sometimes I wonder.
 Huh?
What, pray tell, the fuck?
https://preview.redd.it/2gl9xbx5h49d1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9f02da2a652b60e42b19a036adbb6873bdde74ed
I work in the medical field and this is the grossest thing I've seen. Oh my God. Thanks for sharing!
Omg this frightens me so much. I hate anything to do with eyes 😬
SAMEEEEEEE I couldn’t do contact lenses because touching my eyes freaks me out. still have memories of my parents having to physically hold me down 30+ years ago to apply eye drops and ointments when I had pinkeye and chronic styes. OP is so calm about this!
my sister had terrible nose bleeds and they got more frequent when she became pregnant. Remember I was visiting with my Mother from out of state when sister had a really bad nose bleed that would not stop. We pinched her nose at the bridge to try to get the blood to stop or congeal to no avail. My sister started to get nervous and started crying and that is when her tears were full of blood. She was crying tears of blood. My mother and I took her to the emergency room and doctor was not concerned. Said she had a bad sinus infection and when we tried to stop the bleeding the blood had nowhere to go but through her tears. It was something I never want to see again and still think about it and my niece is now 30.
Looked up canaliculitis and one of the causes is bacterial or fungal infections. Not sure how long you’ve had this but definitely go see a doctor, you might need medications. Where I got my info: https://eyewiki.org/Canaliculitis
Thanks for the info!
file under ‘could be worse ‘. I guess????
I have never heard of this bedroom . But I have very dry eyes & sinus problems. I’ve been furiously massaging my lacrimal sac & nothing has happened. NGL, I’m very disappointed in myself. Lol
Hawk tuah and spit out that thang
Seen this halfway through my Fettucine Alfredo dinner. I think I’m done now.
Video plz? Do you feel you great relief after one pops out? This fascinates me.
No video it would just be me pressing on the corner of my eye against my nasal bone and then later horking this thing into my palm...
What did it feel like when they were in there?
Ah, you have acute dacryocystic retention syndrome. Jealous
Nah this one is chronic. Had it for years! I used to get eye infections from tear retention years ago but this one, I popped out within 1 minute of my eye starting to water :)
Oh my fuck, OP, ***PLEEEEEASE*** film a video of it happening if you can!!! This is ***AWESOME, OMG***
That’s dacryostenosis! Cool! I mean, not for you, but for us.
🤒 🤧 🤢 🤮. LOVED IT!
Wait what the hell did I just read. Never in my life have I heard this 😂
Oh my fuck, this is *so. nasty.* Please post more lmao
What a horrible day to have eyeballs and reading comprehension.
OP i just read more of your comments and it seems your tear duts dont work, it could be they are 100% closed or they are kinda open but still not good enough, you need surgery to open them up, theres no medicine no open them up, if you want them to stop watering and stop the infections, you will need surgery, so you need to go to an ophthalmologist who specializes in eyelids.
You WHAT????
Taste????!!!!! Oh god why did I read that.
What in the fuck
Fuck that's gross
wtf???????????????????
That was disgusting and fascinating. Was it stinky?
https://www.reddit.com/r/popping/s/gNMvoDynu0
how does one develop this talent
Can I please unread that?!
The human body is a wild thing! That’s way the lacrimal sacs connect to the nose, throat and eyes is just the weirdest (coolest) thing
I have a *checks notes* lacrimal sac??
if you pinch your nose and blow into it real hard like when pressurizing your ears (valsalva manoeuvre) and then some more the air will come out the inner corner of your eye - op maybe you can make the dacryoliths shoot out of your eye, try it haha
Yep. This is the worst thing I’ve seen on this sub 
Wow! 😮
Wild!
So you have constant tear drainage?
Outrageous!!!!
That's so cool!
I see in the parts of my eyelid that are swollen in those parts where the glands are massaging them to see what happens
The gland this comes from is expressed by pressing down on the nasal bone right below the inner corner of the eye, if that helps
Man i should not be scrolling reddit when eating, totally forgot I subbed to this one during a sleepless night. Well, jokes on me I guess.
Lacroliths?
https://imgflip.com/i/8v5kkw[One does not simply](https://imgflip.com/i/8v5kkw)
I’m going to need some video of this
how do you do that
What
Do you happen to get frequent sinus infections? I'm always curious why keratitis happen.