I am diagnosed with conjunctivitis but there's a huge pimple-like swelling sagging from my upper eyelid?

Question

I know I definitely have conjunctivitis because my eye is turning pink. But the swelling started with a small pimple-like bump on my upper eyelid which slowly grew and grew to the extent that it now slightly sags over my eye. And that is what hurts, not my eye! What is it? I thought it was a stye but it's huge and it doesn't have a white/yellow spot which styes usually have.

Help meee please.

Answer 1

it could be a sebaceous cyst on your eyelid - i have had these before - they are rare and annoying but not dangerous or anything.  they sometimes look like styes but they dont pop or get infected like styes do.  if it is a sebaceous cyst, you will either need to get it handled by your eye dr or try to handle it yourself.  if you want to try to handle it yourself, it would be trying to just pop it like a pimple but understand that it wont just 'pop', you basically just squeeze and squeeze and white stringy stuff will just keep coming out until the cyst is empty -and since its on your eyelid, this might bruise up a bit and be painful - if you go to the eye dr., basically, they will cut the bump open and clean all the stringy stuff out at one shot