# Friggin OW!!!!!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [January 3, 2001, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216 "2001-01-03T09:46:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 9:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216/1 "2001-01-03T09:46:12Z")

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For some unknown reason, God has decided to curse me with a rather painful sty in my right eye today!

So I sit here trying to type with a rolled up, dipped in H2O, heated in the nuker, sock wedged between my glasses and my eyelid…

Thought you’d like to know.

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**Author:** ![blur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dbc845/32.png) [@blur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blur)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216/2 "2001-01-03T10:08:08Z")

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Dude, that sucks. You have my sympathy.

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**Author:** ![Astroboy14](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df705f/32.png) [@Astroboy14](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Astroboy14)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216/3 "2001-01-03T10:28:05Z")

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thanks, **blur**!! Oddly enough, you username fits the current situation well! 😛

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**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2001, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/friggin-ow/48216/4 "2001-01-03T13:13:09Z")

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If you’d like to try my gramma’s remedy for stys, just make a cup of tea with a tea bag, squeeze out most of the tea from the bag so it’s just damp, and put it on your eye until it’s cold, then do it again. It’s very soothing, the right size to go over your eye without too much trouble…it worked for me when I had one a couple of years ago.