I did a search on this forum to see if anyone else has experienced a puffy eye that tears run out of. This is new for me. It's just my right eye. It started night before last when I was tired and rubbing my eye's. I went to rub the inside corners (near the tear ducts) and my right one was tender. When I rubbed it, it hurt. Then the next morning it started watering up. Really noticable when I went outdoors. Now this morning it's swollen and still watering up.
Any one else experience this? I'm just wondering if it's linked to Mast Cells or maybe I have something totally unrelated going on. Don't we all often wonder things like this about new symptoms??????
Have a great day!
Kim

What? A 'normal people thing'?! I can be normal? LOL just playing.
Thanks Debra.

Ouch! That has to be more miserable then what I have going on. I do think Deb is right. The tears running from my affected eye are from inside the eye itself. Now I'm noticing swelling down the same side of my nose that the affected eye is on. Yup. Probably a blockage or infection of some sort.

Do sinus infections act like this? I started getting sinus infections occasionally a few years ago, and I am always surprised at a symptom that end up being sinus! If it is sinus, that is a quick fix with some antibiotic. Without antibiotic, sinus infections can take weeks to get rid of.

Yup, officially grossed out! LOL

Since this is in only one eye, Kim, as I said, this indicates that it's not a mast cell reaction/issue here, but something like an infection or a tear duct blockage.  

If it's an infection, only a doctor can really deal with that and you'll need possible antibiotics for that - which should be done with care since we can react to antibiotics.  You can't take just any kind and this gets tricky.

However, if this is a blockage, this can be worked with through other means.  That of hot compresses and gentle massage.  

So, what you do is take a wet cloth and nuke it to warm it up sufficiently and place this on the affected eye for several minutes - perhaps 10 or so.  Then gently massage the tear duct, trying to help open up the duct.  Do this back and forth for about 30 minutes about 3 times a day, trying to see if this will help loosen up the blockage.  Don't "rub" in a harsh way, but gently press and massage the under and inner corner of your eye.  

If you eye is also inflammed, when you are not trying to do this massage treatment, use a cold compress to relieve the inflammation.   Apply the cold compress as you do the warm one, but don't do any kind of massage with it - just apply the cold compress and leave it there for about 15 minutes.

I know this seems rather ridiculous doing opposite things to the same eye, but what you are dealing with is perhaps two seperate things - that of the inflammation and that of a possible blockage.  Inflammation will call mast cells and they will in turn create their own issues for you so you need to try to reduce their activity and productivity, so cold is the way to help reduce inflammation.  

However, if you have a blockage, then you need to open up that duct or pours which are involved in the blockage and the only way to work that is with heat.  Thus the opposite treatments.  

I would think that if you've no improvement after 2 days, or if you find a drastic worsening of your symptoms, you need to get to your doctor quickly.  

No matter what, I'd set up an appointment with your opthamologist and let him take a good look.  If it is a blocked duct or pours, then infection can set in and this can create serious issues.  If it's already an infection the hot/cold treatment won't improve anything because you need antibiotics.  So, this is why I say, you need your doctor.  

Lisa

Thanks to everyone for your advice and participation in my question. I looked quickly this morning online and I'm leaning more towards a blocked tear duct since the white of my eye is not pink or red in the least and the swelling from my eye reaches down and along the side of my nose. I do not have any colored discharge. Only clear tears that run and become more intense when I step out into the heat of the outdoors. It does not hurt. So you can see why I'm leaning away from pink eye.

SO LISA I will do the warm/cold compresses which I started last night and I will continue for the next couple days to see what happens.

THANKS TO ALL!!!!  
Kim

Lisa:
Just a small note. On my whole skin issue, my right side is always the worst. That includes my eyes. My right eye does act differently than my left eye. It is for some reason my doc can't explain.I guess just like the rest of my body. When my eyes always start to hurt, it's always the right one, sometimes the left never even hurts at all. My doc says it is masto & the only thing that works is Pataday, a mast cell inhibitor. By the way the idea of a cold compress is a good one for temporary relief, but only temporary.
MikeV