Eye Mucus Fishing Syndrome

Eye mucus fishing syndrome can cause a lot of irritation to the eyes. Pulling on the mucus strings can also propogate more mucus to form leading to repeat cases and symptoms. It is best to not pull on the mucus and instead use conservative treatments to settle the irritation, and of course, seek care from an eye care professional to rule out other signs of infection or complication.

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[catrina]

Your eyes get itchy because of histamines. Rubbing your eyes brings up more histamines; then they get itchier. You rub them more, bringing more histamines. It's a vicious cycle.

[lorenloftis]

They say DONT FISH but mine gets in the way of my vision🤷🏾‍♀️

[juliasgutz]

if anyone is saying “this glued my eye shut once” then you probably have a tear duct infection that you need surgery for, or you had pink eye.

[noisetv]

Hard to use a cold compress on your eyes when you are at work 🙁 I have had this for years, along with dry eye and allergic conjunctivitis

[medicinegeek]

I can pull mucous strings approx 6-8 inches long out of my eyes. It’s amazing. I can’t stop. It feels so good. Sometimes I’ll spend 30 min at a time fishing each eye I’m obsessed.

[sunnydaze]

Omg I thought I was just weird. I always just attributed this to my insanely bad allergies and my doctors have never seemed concerned but nor have they ever given me any type of answers about it. Thank you!

[Imagoodn]

Thanks for your simple suggestions to help with this condition. I have been a hard contact lens wearer since the early 1970s, switching to RGP when they came on the scene. Dry eyes have been a problem for me for decades, and mucus eye fishing developed about 10 years ago. It kept getting worse, never better. Finally! I decided to develop a simple eye hygiene routine. Why not? I already have evening and morning hygiene routines, I can add another step or two. Here's my new practice: Blink more! Clean my eyes gently twice a day. Use good artificial tears at least twice a day. And give myself permission to "go fishing" no more than three times per day. In three weeks, the stringy mucus is greatly diminished, and I have developed two great new habits: consciously blinking fully and keeping my fingers out of my eyes! Thanks again. Love your channel!
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[AngelIna-ovfm]

It's kind of ocd for me. I do it for several years and I hate doing it. Don't know how to handle it. Especially in stressful periods I do it nearly every day.

[sincerelydelo]

I needed this about a good 20yrs ago. My mother and “eye” (pun deeply intended) stayed at the eye doctor trying to figure out WTH I was pulling out of my eyes. I constantly had strings in them. Super thick and always there. It felt like lint was in my eyes 24/7 it drove me crazy. My now 17 yr old had the same issue by time she was 4, I still catch her from time to time pulling strings out. We both agreed to stop picking at our eyes.

[frangoassado]

omg this is exactly what I need. algorithm finally made itself useful for once.

[bhavneetsingh]

I have this in my left eye I used to pick my eyelids now I know why I got it thank you sir from India🇮🇳

[SPDRV]

Im started to realized that I might have this because the feeling of pulling the mucus out of my eye feels so good to the point I will be in my bathroom for 2 hours fishing for it every single day, I hate it

[me-thebusta]

This is crazy because it's me exactly . I can't stop because it doesn't

[DoorsToHideBehind]

I've had that happen before only it also had a long hair in it as well. If you've never pulled long hair out of your eye before it's an insane feeling and very gross/satisfying.

[Kyleduhweirdkid]

Not me seeing this after I pulled that stuff out

[srushtimate]

I just listened 2 times & i am already 4 shades lighter than my actual tone😊
Much love moza❤😇

[talivison]

I wear eye makeup and every time I pull out the string from my eye it comes out with all the makeup particles that were stuck in my eye so it helps me out !

[OldRaver]

PLEASE try to break this habit, folks!
It is actually an OCD compulsion!
I have had it my entire life.. I was not obsessed though, and it did not cause me any issue til I hit 50 and I developed Dry Eye Disorder (Blocked Meibomian glands that ironically cause WET eyes as my tears don’t adhere to my eyeballs, so my eyes OVER produce and they end up just running over my lower lids!)

But this ALSO meant that I felt EVERY tiny bit of mucus inside my lids (usually right up in the sockets) and often even soft tiny blobs of mucus felt like sharp little rocks!!
And that is our trigger to ‘go fishing’!
I dug and dug into my poor eyes fishing out the stringy mucus.
Trouble is, the mucus is produced by our eyes as an auto immune response normally to safely envelop bits of grit we get in our eyes, to safely transport them OUT of our eye sockets without scratching our fragile and necessarily super sensitive conjunctiva and corneas/iris.

So when we go digging in with our fingers our eyes think that it is a huge foreign body in our eye, and produces MORE mucus to ‘evict’ the offending item!

So we dig again.
And the cycle just perpetuates!

Whilst there is a weird satisfaction in removing a long stringy line of mucus, IF you continue down this route, as I have, the compulsion ends up causing very real damage, and has now massively impacted my life!
PLEASE read and be warned!!

My sleep suffers (now REALLY hard to fall asleep, then I constantly wake up with compulsion to pick at or wash out my eyes)
Sleep deprivation DESTROYS your exec function!! (- it’s effects mimics Dementia, and also causes depression!)

I wake up with my eyes glued shut to my eyeballs from built up mucus😵
NOT sexy!! Can you just imagine waking up next to someone with their eyelids crusted together??
Definitely no sexy “Hey you’s “ across the pillows in the morning! I feel more like Quasimodo saying ‘Don’t look at me! I’m so UGLY!” as I roll out of bed and scurry blindly as a mole to the bathroom, bumping into things on the way!!!
I am COMPLETELY blind every morning til I stumble into the bathroom and get a warm wet flannel onto my eyes to soften the dried clumpy mucus and enable me to open and wash my eyes.

My eye sockets have become very sunken and dark from constant pressure I put on them onsessively squeezing out mucus from the upper rims with the edge of my index fingers!

The skin BENEATH my eyes is now paper thin, sore and permanently dark and wrinkled prematurely from constant tearflow and rubbing!!
My vision has become impaired, constantly blurred.
Driving is difficult (I probably should not even BE driving!!)

This is NOT a joke!
This compulsion has honestly destroyed my life!

I can’t read books, I can’t do my job anymore (can’t do anything detailed on excel anymore! ) and I am utterly miserable.

PLEASE stop doing this now, before you wnd up like me 💔🥺

[bbarre]

I used to fish, and it was not good, until I finally realized rubbing my itchy dry eyes, as tempting as it is, was the problem. I used to refrigerate some preservative free drops to help me out of the most irritated mucus situations and found the cool drops to be soothing

[lottedunnell]

I don't get any eye irritation at all and I don't pick at or touch my eyes. I notice these in my eyes only after washing my face (any time of day) Gummy goo in the inner corner of both my eyes. When I pull it out, it comes out like a thread from both the top and bottom of my eye/eyelids