I need help taping eye shut at night because eyelid won’t close?
hey everyone, i just got diagnosed with bell’s palsy and the doctor told me to tape my eye shut at night. He gave me some tape, but its really uncomfortable to take it off in the morning. It pulls on my eyelid and eyelashes and also leaves a little bit of the adhesive on my face. Is there a correct way to do it without ripping out my eyelashes? The tape he gave me is cloth like and as sticky as masking tape. Using those bandaid like patches over my eyes don’t work well either because my eyelid can still open with it on. HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!
thanks so much for your concern over my diagnosis but it isn’t really as bad as it seems. its kinda fun making faces in the mirror and not being able to move half my face. it was just scary when i didn’t know what it was.
scotch…no, DUCT tape
use an eye patch
maybe a band aid…possibly covered with band aids.
maybe if you put some gauze over your eye first, THEN tape the eye down. that way, your eyelid and eyelashes won’t get pulled. i hope it clears up soon.
get the kind the pharmacy sells to tape gauze
here- this is what i mean
awww hun I am so sorry for your diagnosis
you seem to be in good spirits.
Not unless you only taped the corners of your eyelid could you avoid contact with your eyelashes.
I am sorry love I wish I had an answer for you.
try laying a gauze over your closed eyelid then puting tape over the gauze
go to one of those specialist medical stores, or a really good pharmacy, they’ll probably have something. Doctors’ stuff can be kind of generic, but the stores specifically for stuff like that are have a much wider variety.
well i suggest eyepatch. For those out there that don’t know eye patch.An eyepatch is a small patch that is worn in front of one eye. It may be a cloth patch attached around the head by an elastic band or by a string, or an adhesive bandage. It is often worn by people to cover a lost or injured eye, but it also has a therapeutic use in children for the treatment of amblyopia.
Maybe you could get the tape and cut a thin “slice” of gauze about the width/length of your eyelashes and tape vertically so that your eyelashes don’t get pulled and your eye stays shut because of the pressure. That’s pretty tough though… Maybe saline eye drops and an eye patch?
Could you try a cloth/cotton patch and then tape that down, the patch would cover your eylashes so the tape wont stick to them, I am thinking like the ones you see people have on their eyes after an operation. The other thing is, did your doctor say it was absolutely necessary to tape your eyes closed when you sleep? The only reason I ask is because apparently I dont close my eyes fully when I sleep and it does not affect me in anyway, I know a few people who are the same.
Try putting half dollars over your eyes like they do for dead people then tape over them.