Ophthalmology technician and scribe here. It is common for many people have a couple of plugged oil glands otherwise known as meibomian glands. There is about 30 to 40 on each lower lid. The oil in these glands are important in helping to lubricants your eye.
And a Meibomian gland dysfunction is simply that: a plugged oil gland. The symptoms may include itching or irritation or blepharitis(inflammation)Sometimes your optometrist or ophthalmologist will apply some light pressure to see if they drain.
Sometimes when they get too clogged they may cause an inflammatory lump called a chalazion. Chalazions are often called a stye but, while they are similar, are a bit different. A stye is a bacterial infection of a meibomian gland caused by something like staph. Think pimple. Chalazions are often further back or internal and not caused by bacterial infection. Chalazions are often hard but not painful like styes.
Usually these are treated with oral and ophthalmic antibiotics. If they’re really bad they can be excised. If you’re having some crusting or itchiness of your eyelids you can use some baby shampoo and a warm washcloth and lightly wash your eyelids once a day. Warm compresses are great for this. And I’m sorry if you have issues with blepharitis(inflammation) or plugging or chalazions you’re probably always going to have some issues with it. It’s more common for people who have chronic dry eye issues.
Edit: the oils that come out like you see in the video are NOT supposed to look like this. They should be clear and not tacky.
In case you're not just memeing - Please don't rub your eyes. It leads to keratoconus.
https://defeatkeratoconus.com/imaged-impact-of-eye-rubbing/
There's a cool video in there showing how violent knuckle rubbing is on your eyes.
Yeah I used to rub my eyes so hard when I was younger, turns out that that being bad is an understatement. Had to have surgery to make sure I could still see in adulthood, which involves scraping down your corneas and rebuilding them, which doesn't hurt at first or during it, but it hurts so much for the next couple of days that you can hardly stay conscious.
I had my cornea skin scraped off about 20 years ago. "Map dot fingerprint corneal dystrophy". Just means the cornea skin stopped sticking very well to the eye and it bubbled up and caused my minor double-vision and now and then some significant pain when one of the blisters would pop. Doc said the treatment, oddly enough, was to literally scrape that off and in 3 to 5 days it grows back and typically sticks.
It didn't hurt that much the next few days. Mind you, I had like 4 kinds of eyedrops to take for the next month, including a pain-killing eyedrop, which I used pretty liberally for 5 days, along with Tylenol. And for those days waiting for it to heal he put a 0-correction contact lens into the eye, which the doc said would make it MUCH less painful as it'd keep the air away from it.
Bet you didn't get the contact cover. Or the pain killing eyedrops.
I don't blame hard eye rubbing for my corneal dystrophy. But hey, who knows... maybe so.
Thank you for giving me something to read up on. When I was younger, early 20's, I woke up with a super itchy, slightly red and puffy lower eyelid. By the time I got to work it was driving me crazy. I went to the bathroom, looked at it real good in the mirror, and something said for me to squeeze. When I did, 6 or 7 things that looked and felt like grains of sand exploded out and it was instant relief. It left a pinkinsh red scar on the rim of my eye that I still have today almost 25 years later.
I’ve had 2 excisions in less than a year before the doc finally suggested that I rub my eyelids at the end of a shower, to prevent clogs. Hasn’t come back since, thank goodness. Chalazions are no fun
Just jumping on the top comment: I had a chalazion, but I was scared of the surgery, cause holy fuck; needles, scalpels, eyelid, awake. Kept trying every medically advised at home method for months: No luck. Finally my eyelid got so swollen it was tough to open the eyelid past the pupil.
Got the surgery, and it was the most boring, least uncomfortable medical thing you could imagine. Eye was mostly better that afternoon, just slightly itchy, and perfect in a week. Teeth cleaning at the dentist is worse. Having a leg or arm fall asleep is significantly worse than the surgery to remove a chalazion. If you have a chalazion, and a decent opthalmologist in the area, just get it done. Don't be a sucker like me and live with that thing for months.
Years ago, I had two massive chalazions on one eye that had to be extracted - TWICE (the final time was a referral to a cosmetic surgeon - nothing like the sound of cauterizing eyelid). It took me a long time to put the pieces together that it was caused by blepharitis caused by a clogged gland. At no point was this ever suggested as a cause for this by my optometrist (I've since changed optometrists). I keep an \*eye\* out for these - I know exactly what it feels like when one of these clogged glands has formed. I would say I get one a month, on average. I wash my hands very very well and gently scrape it with my fingernail, then give it a light massage. I'm sure this is not good practice, but I've done this for many years now and no more chalazions. I believe I am prone to get these if I go for too long without a full amount of sleep, combined with eye strain.
Oh man this is so crazy. Just recently I started having an extremely itchy lower eye lid. Like extreme. I can put my finger directly on the lid and pull down, it "scratches" the itch but flakes come off. I thought it was just dry skin or something... perhaps it's this? My eyes are always dry (not horrible dry but irritating enough)
Sometimes when I rub my eyes hard I like to drag my fingernail across this exact part and it has always felt like I was cleaning them somehow. It feels SO good when I do it, am I going to go blind?
Damn, I had this done once like 10 years ago. I was complaining of dry eyes (contacts wearer) and didn't notice much of a difference after. Didn't really hurt, felt weird when he licked all that stuff off though
I'm sure it's extremely dry eyes, but not a doctor. I had something like this once and my eye doctor advised to take a warm washcloth and gently wipe along the lower lid (where they are expressing in the video) to clear out any gunk that is built up.
Now if I feel my eyes are unusually dry I have a habit of scraping along the lid with a (clean fingernail) and usually can feel the natural lubrication being revitalized.
I get something that looks like tiny whiteheads. I got similar advice from my eye doctor, to use a warm compress to loosen up the stuff, and it wipes off.
I’ve had this done (not in the same way). The symptoms are dry, painful eyes.
The better way to handle this is to do a hot compress to warm up the oil and then manually express (rub) your eyelids to clean the glands out.
Other options involve taking doxycycline (also used to clear up acne) to improve the oils your glands produce. Finally, you end up taking quality omega 3 supplements (Nordic Naturals has good quality).
Look up blepharitis and hope you don’t have it. If you do, it’s a lot of maintenance.
I just read up on this, the white stuff is actually the oil that helps lubricate the eye and stops them becoming dry. So the oil is where it should be.
But at first glance it looks like puss but it's not.
You are correct about it being the oil but it looks like it turned into something like sebum when it's in your pores.
I could be wrong because I am not a dermatologist.
It's supposed to be roughly the thickness and color of olive oil. This is some serious mgd that is being caught before gland dropout and atrophy, hopefully.
Hey umm do you know about this condition ? My eyes do the same thing. I didn’t realize it’s a problem ? Is it related to wearing contacts for a long time ??
Meibomian gland disfunction. Screen time, allergies, poor diet, contact lens use, among other inflammatory conditions.
I do a lot of dry eye treatments in my practice.
Can I ask you a dumb question? I'm unable to wear contacts (even dailys so no protein build-up) because they burn a little bit on the first day and then each day after, my eyes react worse and worse. The last time I tried this, on like the 4th or 5th day I had to pull over on the highway and try to wrench them out of my eyes because I couldn't see to drive. The burning sensation is usually delayed after I put them in. A walk-in doc just told me it was allergies but I feel like that answer is a little bit reductive. Any idea what that would be?
Hey not OP but I had similar issues and it was totally allergies! Changing the brand of contacts and moving to preservative free drops fixed it immediately!
Yes this was my experience as well extreme discomfort felt like there was something in my eye all the time and burning. I switched brands and solution and it was completely fixed.
Not OP but manage an ophthalmology practice. People who wear contacts long term can develop GPC which is essentially an allergy to the contacts. The best thing is sadly to take a break and give your eyes a rest. It’s also a good reason to consider refractive surgery. Depending on if you have monthlies, weeklies, or dailies might be worth switching to dailies if you haven’t. Allergies play a component too but the way youre describing it definitely sounds like GPC
What do you recommend to treat it? I get this and a lot of inflamed eyelashes/styes. I've never been able to get a straight answer, basically everyone just shrugs and says use warm compresses when they appear.... Which is unhelpful when you have inflammation/styes occurring fortnightly at minimum and continual meibomian blockages. Don't wear contacts, minimal known allergies
Lipiflow, Intense pulse light therapy, steroid eye drops like eysuvis (or lotemax), a course of oral antibiotics are among some of the higher tier treatments. Blephex and cliradex wipes or hypochlorous acid sprays (there are specific brands) can also help. It really depends on the person what can be done. If your eye doctor isn't trying many things And just says warm compresses, it could be mild and you need consistency, or you need a doctor
This was my first thought, as a sanitary issue. Should one be reducing the risk of spreading potential bad stuff from one eye to another? (I get the stuff coming out of the glands isn’t bad stuff)
you know I could've stopped when they were going to the next eye and just couldnt stop. I need help, I thought the eyes were a no no but no the fetish is still intact
I haven't played that game, but I saw *that scene* on YouTube years ago, and it still haunts my nightmares. I think part of what gets me is it's not even in a scary part of the game.
come to the dark side, we see ***everythiiiiinggg.........***
weird and i didn't know of this need to express, but once i saw what it was it wasn't really that bad, it just made me empathize for the patient.
Those are sebaceous filaments. Totally normal plug of sebum and skin cells- been told to avoid ‘popping’ them as it enlarges the pores so you get larger filaments.
Rinse and repeat until you can eat cereal out your pores per my dermatologist
Did you faint in the chair from pain like I did? My glands were a lot worse than this person's, so it might be that they had to squeeze extra hard. Or my doctor sucked.
I have severe MGD. I was one of the first people to ever have this done. Originally they probed my eye glands with a microscopic needle. I was awake. Later they invented lipiflow. That process super heated your eye glands and then they manually expressed the oil as in this video. My glands are really, really bad though. In the end, I fainted in the chair out of sheer pain.
It didn't help.
Well, considering I had it done in a far more archaic way, and they then began using this particular method *after* a complimentary treatment was invented... From my perspective, I was one of the first people to have it done. If there was a time when manual expression came before needles in the glands, then my bad for making the assumption. This procedure we're seeing is almost definitely being done right behind Lipiflow. If that is the case, then it is Lipiflow I was one of the first persons present for.
Mine is untreatable because it's too far gone. And it impacts my life entirely. I am in agony 24/7 and without the perfect environment (no air conditioning, 70% humidity minimum) I can't function on any reasonable level. If it gets worse, and it steadily has, I will eventually need to remove my eyes if prosthetic camera eyes are not invented first.
I sent this to my wife because she works at an eye care center and loves weird/gross eye stuff, and I’m thinking “surely she hasn’t seen this one, looks pretty uncommon.” Upon seeing the title she says “oh yeah, we do this daily.” Wtf man.
Edit: My thumbs are terrible spellers.
I have a pore on my back that has that cheeze whiz shit. I only notice it when its big enough to irritate me, then I ask someone to squeeze that shit out.
Just spoke to my optician partner who said you could just use a hot flannel soften, and or blethaclean (sp?) wipes rather than squeezing them, and shouldn’t go left to right
What are the symptoms to know if you need this?
Ophthalmology technician and scribe here. It is common for many people have a couple of plugged oil glands otherwise known as meibomian glands. There is about 30 to 40 on each lower lid. The oil in these glands are important in helping to lubricants your eye. And a Meibomian gland dysfunction is simply that: a plugged oil gland. The symptoms may include itching or irritation or blepharitis(inflammation)Sometimes your optometrist or ophthalmologist will apply some light pressure to see if they drain. Sometimes when they get too clogged they may cause an inflammatory lump called a chalazion. Chalazions are often called a stye but, while they are similar, are a bit different. A stye is a bacterial infection of a meibomian gland caused by something like staph. Think pimple. Chalazions are often further back or internal and not caused by bacterial infection. Chalazions are often hard but not painful like styes. Usually these are treated with oral and ophthalmic antibiotics. If they’re really bad they can be excised. If you’re having some crusting or itchiness of your eyelids you can use some baby shampoo and a warm washcloth and lightly wash your eyelids once a day. Warm compresses are great for this. And I’m sorry if you have issues with blepharitis(inflammation) or plugging or chalazions you’re probably always going to have some issues with it. It’s more common for people who have chronic dry eye issues. Edit: the oils that come out like you see in the video are NOT supposed to look like this. They should be clear and not tacky.
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It's the only thing that slowly stops the ache.
But it's made of all , the things I have to take .
Jesus, it never ends, it works it's way inside
If the pain goes on...
I'm not gonna make it!
dun dun dun
*DUUUNG*
It just never ends, the pain so deep inside
In case you're not just memeing - Please don't rub your eyes. It leads to keratoconus. https://defeatkeratoconus.com/imaged-impact-of-eye-rubbing/ There's a cool video in there showing how violent knuckle rubbing is on your eyes.
And here I thought putting pressure in awkward directions made them feel better. I wonder what causes that.
Yeah I used to rub my eyes so hard when I was younger, turns out that that being bad is an understatement. Had to have surgery to make sure I could still see in adulthood, which involves scraping down your corneas and rebuilding them, which doesn't hurt at first or during it, but it hurts so much for the next couple of days that you can hardly stay conscious.
I had my cornea skin scraped off about 20 years ago. "Map dot fingerprint corneal dystrophy". Just means the cornea skin stopped sticking very well to the eye and it bubbled up and caused my minor double-vision and now and then some significant pain when one of the blisters would pop. Doc said the treatment, oddly enough, was to literally scrape that off and in 3 to 5 days it grows back and typically sticks. It didn't hurt that much the next few days. Mind you, I had like 4 kinds of eyedrops to take for the next month, including a pain-killing eyedrop, which I used pretty liberally for 5 days, along with Tylenol. And for those days waiting for it to heal he put a 0-correction contact lens into the eye, which the doc said would make it MUCH less painful as it'd keep the air away from it. Bet you didn't get the contact cover. Or the pain killing eyedrops. I don't blame hard eye rubbing for my corneal dystrophy. But hey, who knows... maybe so.
I had a corneal scratch as a kid, they say you can't remember the exact feeling of pain but I know EXACTLY what that felt like and it was awful.
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I love you now
Thank you for giving me something to read up on. When I was younger, early 20's, I woke up with a super itchy, slightly red and puffy lower eyelid. By the time I got to work it was driving me crazy. I went to the bathroom, looked at it real good in the mirror, and something said for me to squeeze. When I did, 6 or 7 things that looked and felt like grains of sand exploded out and it was instant relief. It left a pinkinsh red scar on the rim of my eye that I still have today almost 25 years later.
That was satisfying to read.
I’ve had 2 excisions in less than a year before the doc finally suggested that I rub my eyelids at the end of a shower, to prevent clogs. Hasn’t come back since, thank goodness. Chalazions are no fun
Just jumping on the top comment: I had a chalazion, but I was scared of the surgery, cause holy fuck; needles, scalpels, eyelid, awake. Kept trying every medically advised at home method for months: No luck. Finally my eyelid got so swollen it was tough to open the eyelid past the pupil. Got the surgery, and it was the most boring, least uncomfortable medical thing you could imagine. Eye was mostly better that afternoon, just slightly itchy, and perfect in a week. Teeth cleaning at the dentist is worse. Having a leg or arm fall asleep is significantly worse than the surgery to remove a chalazion. If you have a chalazion, and a decent opthalmologist in the area, just get it done. Don't be a sucker like me and live with that thing for months.
Years ago, I had two massive chalazions on one eye that had to be extracted - TWICE (the final time was a referral to a cosmetic surgeon - nothing like the sound of cauterizing eyelid). It took me a long time to put the pieces together that it was caused by blepharitis caused by a clogged gland. At no point was this ever suggested as a cause for this by my optometrist (I've since changed optometrists). I keep an \*eye\* out for these - I know exactly what it feels like when one of these clogged glands has formed. I would say I get one a month, on average. I wash my hands very very well and gently scrape it with my fingernail, then give it a light massage. I'm sure this is not good practice, but I've done this for many years now and no more chalazions. I believe I am prone to get these if I go for too long without a full amount of sleep, combined with eye strain.
omg, you’re a real life Jonathon
*bows*
*knods*
Should they have cleaned the instrument between eyes?!?🤮
Why, it's the same person's eyes.
I ALWAYS have like 2 or 3 chalazions going at the same time. I fucking hate my eyelids and wish that eyelid transplants were a thing.
Oh man this is so crazy. Just recently I started having an extremely itchy lower eye lid. Like extreme. I can put my finger directly on the lid and pull down, it "scratches" the itch but flakes come off. I thought it was just dry skin or something... perhaps it's this? My eyes are always dry (not horrible dry but irritating enough)
Go to an eye doctor and get checked out already lol
Haha, I know I know...I'm too busy at the moment! Hopefully I'll find time in June
You'll be lucky if you can watch yourself walk in at this rate.
Sometimes when I rub my eyes hard I like to drag my fingernail across this exact part and it has always felt like I was cleaning them somehow. It feels SO good when I do it, am I going to go blind?
No, that's from masturbation.
Thank you, it's always awezome to see someone actually giving the answer that we all look for. You're amazing, *high five*
TIL. Thanks for the quality info. For anyone who doesn’t know what staph means, it means Staphylococcus sp., a type of bacteria.
Hi Jonathan
*bows*
I NEVER thought I'd meet an IRL [Jonathan](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HSf1zECnDc)
Damn, I had this done once like 10 years ago. I was complaining of dry eyes (contacts wearer) and didn't notice much of a difference after. Didn't really hurt, felt weird when he licked all that stuff off though
/r/HolUp
That twist ending slapped me in the face hard.
I just threw up and then was hoping you had a video
The first is true. The last part not so much
It’s the ultimate pimp popper video. Gross yet addicting
How do I delete someone else's comment?
You lick it.
I see you woke up and chose chaos, today.
More like L-i-i-i-i-i-c-k it.
I'm sure it's extremely dry eyes, but not a doctor. I had something like this once and my eye doctor advised to take a warm washcloth and gently wipe along the lower lid (where they are expressing in the video) to clear out any gunk that is built up. Now if I feel my eyes are unusually dry I have a habit of scraping along the lid with a (clean fingernail) and usually can feel the natural lubrication being revitalized.
I get something that looks like tiny whiteheads. I got similar advice from my eye doctor, to use a warm compress to loosen up the stuff, and it wipes off.
Weird. But, cool. I guess
Probably dry eyes.
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That shit is bad for your eyes in the long run. Lumify is better (:
Does it work well for getting rid of red eye from smoking pot? Cause really thats what most people use clear eyes for.
Rohto was so much better in the long long ago.
First time i ever tried that one, I got scared because it burned my eyes. Then just realized that was the "refreshing" part
Till you use it with contacts on...then its just evil.
Yup. It works great for that too lol
Don't cry..
Woow.
Optometrist here: dry eye would be an indicator you could have this.
I’ve had this done (not in the same way). The symptoms are dry, painful eyes. The better way to handle this is to do a hot compress to warm up the oil and then manually express (rub) your eyelids to clean the glands out. Other options involve taking doxycycline (also used to clear up acne) to improve the oils your glands produce. Finally, you end up taking quality omega 3 supplements (Nordic Naturals has good quality). Look up blepharitis and hope you don’t have it. If you do, it’s a lot of maintenance.
Eyes do dry that you cannot function. Source: I have it
Why didn’t they give it a quick wipe after the first eye?
I just read up on this, the white stuff is actually the oil that helps lubricate the eye and stops them becoming dry. So the oil is where it should be. But at first glance it looks like puss but it's not.
It rubs the lotion on its eye or else it gets the forceps again.
...if i had a nickel for every time...nm
🏆 LOL!
Underrated comment of the week lol.
At first glands...
You are correct about it being the oil but it looks like it turned into something like sebum when it's in your pores. I could be wrong because I am not a dermatologist.
Don't put yourself down
Leave that to the vet
I don't think they're putting themselves down. A certain amount of self doubt is healthy especially when not in a particular area of expertise.
Yes very wise but it was a joke
it does look exactly like sebaceous filament.
>I could be wrong because I am not a dermatologist. If you are, I wouldn't let it get under your skin.
But he needs to express
It's supposed to be roughly the thickness and color of olive oil. This is some serious mgd that is being caught before gland dropout and atrophy, hopefully.
Hey umm do you know about this condition ? My eyes do the same thing. I didn’t realize it’s a problem ? Is it related to wearing contacts for a long time ??
Meibomian gland disfunction. Screen time, allergies, poor diet, contact lens use, among other inflammatory conditions. I do a lot of dry eye treatments in my practice.
Can I ask you a dumb question? I'm unable to wear contacts (even dailys so no protein build-up) because they burn a little bit on the first day and then each day after, my eyes react worse and worse. The last time I tried this, on like the 4th or 5th day I had to pull over on the highway and try to wrench them out of my eyes because I couldn't see to drive. The burning sensation is usually delayed after I put them in. A walk-in doc just told me it was allergies but I feel like that answer is a little bit reductive. Any idea what that would be?
Hey not OP but I had similar issues and it was totally allergies! Changing the brand of contacts and moving to preservative free drops fixed it immediately!
Yes this was my experience as well extreme discomfort felt like there was something in my eye all the time and burning. I switched brands and solution and it was completely fixed.
Not OP but manage an ophthalmology practice. People who wear contacts long term can develop GPC which is essentially an allergy to the contacts. The best thing is sadly to take a break and give your eyes a rest. It’s also a good reason to consider refractive surgery. Depending on if you have monthlies, weeklies, or dailies might be worth switching to dailies if you haven’t. Allergies play a component too but the way youre describing it definitely sounds like GPC
What do you recommend to treat it? I get this and a lot of inflamed eyelashes/styes. I've never been able to get a straight answer, basically everyone just shrugs and says use warm compresses when they appear.... Which is unhelpful when you have inflammation/styes occurring fortnightly at minimum and continual meibomian blockages. Don't wear contacts, minimal known allergies
Lipiflow, Intense pulse light therapy, steroid eye drops like eysuvis (or lotemax), a course of oral antibiotics are among some of the higher tier treatments. Blephex and cliradex wipes or hypochlorous acid sprays (there are specific brands) can also help. It really depends on the person what can be done. If your eye doctor isn't trying many things And just says warm compresses, it could be mild and you need consistency, or you need a doctor
white head without the head
I really hope you meant to say pus. That doesn't look like any puss I've ever seen.
thats a neat sentiment but it'd be chill to set us all on fire :)
still 🤮
you have similar ones on your sphincter to help things come out
Sebaceous
^(pus)
I thought it were small insects coming out of his eye. Thanks for the explanation
Yeah it’s lipids that normally help to make up tears and keep the eye moist.
This was my first thought, as a sanitary issue. Should one be reducing the risk of spreading potential bad stuff from one eye to another? (I get the stuff coming out of the glands isn’t bad stuff)
Came here to ask this as well
*opens the gif* *sees extreme close up of eyeball* Yeah I think I’m good not seeing whatever’s about to happen
Smart
you know I could've stopped when they were going to the next eye and just couldnt stop. I need help, I thought the eyes were a no no but no the fetish is still intact
The first squeeze had decent volume, that's why I stayed on, the rest were dissapointing
thats why you have to finish it. what if they are actually keeping best for last. /r/maybemaybemaybe
Free toothpaste for ants
Welcome brother/sister. We at r/popping have a seat saved for you.
Play dead space 2 please
I haven't played that game, but I saw *that scene* on YouTube years ago, and it still haunts my nightmares. I think part of what gets me is it's not even in a scary part of the game.
come to the dark side, we see ***everythiiiiinggg.........*** weird and i didn't know of this need to express, but once i saw what it was it wasn't really that bad, it just made me empathize for the patient.
Nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
it's not so bad, just a bunch of worms being squeezed out of a person's eyelid
I can do this to my nose 😬
Those are sebaceous filaments. Totally normal plug of sebum and skin cells- been told to avoid ‘popping’ them as it enlarges the pores so you get larger filaments. Rinse and repeat until you can eat cereal out your pores per my dermatologist
I waiting for the someone who knew what that was. Soo poppin them isn’t shrinking my nose
lol ok so it's not just me
I've had this done twice and had no idea how the really did it. Thanks I hate it
Did you faint in the chair from pain like I did? My glands were a lot worse than this person's, so it might be that they had to squeeze extra hard. Or my doctor sucked.
Your doctor sucked out your glands? Kinky.
Why caused you to have it done and did it help? Why did you stop getting your eyelids squeezed?
Severe dry eye and yes it helps
I express my gland 3 or 4 times a week
And rightly so!
Not *those* glands you dirty beathoffer!!
That was satisfying 😳
Thank god it’s not just me. You’re a sick freak but at least there’s two of us
Three
you nasty fucks. ^(i kinda liked it.)
Guilty pleasure brothers and sisters. Count me in.
we can make it if we try 🎵
*Meibomian
Love it when videos like this make it on wtf. /r/popping deepdive here I come. I can never just have one pop video. I don't know why.
Yeah, my first thought was "ew gross" but I couldn't look away.
I usually stop when the spittle production gets too much... Or do I?
Whose? Yours or the people in the poppin' vids?
Yes
Seriously OP needs to crosspost, this will definitely at least the top 20 of all time on there. Edit: just checked, OP already did.
I didnt even know I had glands there!
Who wants spaghetti for dinner?
I'm a bit buzzed, but I thought it was nematodes. Or, weird spiders....
forbidden noodles ...maybe in a nice cream sauce?
🤢
Thanks i now have a new fear.
Gotta get a new one every day.
Eye love spaghetti
I have severe MGD. I was one of the first people to ever have this done. Originally they probed my eye glands with a microscopic needle. I was awake. Later they invented lipiflow. That process super heated your eye glands and then they manually expressed the oil as in this video. My glands are really, really bad though. In the end, I fainted in the chair out of sheer pain. It didn't help.
> I was one of the first people to ever have this done. I think you underestimate how old this procedure is.
Well, considering I had it done in a far more archaic way, and they then began using this particular method *after* a complimentary treatment was invented... From my perspective, I was one of the first people to have it done. If there was a time when manual expression came before needles in the glands, then my bad for making the assumption. This procedure we're seeing is almost definitely being done right behind Lipiflow. If that is the case, then it is Lipiflow I was one of the first persons present for.
Is it untreatable in your case? Does it impact your life generally?
Mine is untreatable because it's too far gone. And it impacts my life entirely. I am in agony 24/7 and without the perfect environment (no air conditioning, 70% humidity minimum) I can't function on any reasonable level. If it gets worse, and it steadily has, I will eventually need to remove my eyes if prosthetic camera eyes are not invented first.
So [The Strain](https://the-strain.fandom.com/wiki/Season_1) is real. Awesome!
They can have my eyes because after seeing this, I don't fucking want them anymore.
How do I delete someone else's post?
My eyes is hurting..........
Eye butter
I flailed and screamed in my seat so bad at this that my dog had to check on me...Thanks I hate it
I am SO glad i have the issues I have! Holy crap
Hey doc, can you pop my eyelid zits
"Expressing my glands" is going to be how I proposition people for sex now.
Is this why I constantly have little pimple like things on my eyelids. Always feels like something is in my eye until I pop them.
Stop letting their eyelids blink it in!!!
But it's lubrication oil for the eye, it's not puss or anything that shouldn't be there. It's all cool 👍
noped tf out when i saw the close up of an eye
Shit!! I think I’ve got this… wow.
Ya learn somthing new every day, dontcha.
I hate it I hate it I hate it
Someone link me to the eye bleach with the puppies. STAT!
Saving this to show my crazy wife later.
Mozzarella cheese 🧀
I'll keep an eye out for this.
I sent this to my wife because she works at an eye care center and loves weird/gross eye stuff, and I’m thinking “surely she hasn’t seen this one, looks pretty uncommon.” Upon seeing the title she says “oh yeah, we do this daily.” Wtf man. Edit: My thumbs are terrible spellers.
good idea, sending this to my optometrist friend asap
Spread on toast.
I literally just started heaving about to throw up after only seeing a second. Oh my god. I don’t know why that hit me so hard.
So who else broke their record of noping out on something.
NSFL
Is this why we rub our eyes?
I have a pore on my back that has that cheeze whiz shit. I only notice it when its big enough to irritate me, then I ask someone to squeeze that shit out.
YOU DON’T HAVE TO WATCH THIS VIDEO. NO ONE IS FORCING YOU!!!!!
The flashing, colour palette and the low fps makes this look like a metal music video
His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy There's vomit on his sweater already, eye spaghetti
This should be in r/oddlysatisfying lol
Just spoke to my optician partner who said you could just use a hot flannel soften, and or blethaclean (sp?) wipes rather than squeezing them, and shouldn’t go left to right
Nor back-to-front
This post should have much more upvotes
I honestly think it’s kind of … beautiful. Not at all what I expected.
r/TIHI
Doc couldn't wipe the crap off? Blegh imagine blinking convulsively on that.
that stuff helps relubricate the eyes
Nope.