A woman feared she was losing her eyesight after she woke up with “red swollen eyes glued together”, frantically trying multiple prescription medications that would not work.
Katherine Hutchings, 59, a full-time carer for her son, and mum-of-three, feared she was losing her eyesight when her eyelids began to itch and swell in spring 2018. Despite trying remedies such as coconut oil and paracetamol, as well as being prescribed antibiotic cream by her GP, nothing seemed to improve her condition.
Prescribed treatments even made Katherine’s eyelids worse – they made them “so painful” that she had to stop using them. Katherine’s “bruised” eyelids, which felt like “they were being stabbed with sharp needles” on a day-to-day basis, made her not want to leave the house – she stopped going to the gym as she “couldn’t bear the stares”.
