What are the little bumps under the eye that develop, along with all the other stuff!, when you age? I assume it’s a kind of fat deposit? Does it come with increased fat percentage or from aging and/or sun damage?
When last I had an eye exam, the optometrist (not M.D.) who gave it to me said that such deposits (which I have) are reservoirs of cholesterol, which I might want to have looked at. How true that is, I have no idea. I offer it as information obtained from a quasi-professsional until a competent health care practitioner posts here to discuss it in more depth.
Xanthelasma are usually flattish, waxy deposits (I wouldn’t call them tiny). About 50% of people with xanthelasma have high levels of cholesterol or related abnormalities of fat metabolism.
KG speaks truth, as always.
But another diagnostic possibility would be skin tags. They can be smaller than a millimeter, or as large as a pea.
Here’s a page of common skin conditions around the eyes: http://www.nsc.gov.sg/cgi-bin/WB_ContentGen.pl?id=152&gid=33
They are deposits caused by sholesterol. I had mine removed by a plastic surgeon twenty some years ago and they never came back.
Ah, took me a while, but I found a reference for my “50%” figure above.
I think based on the ugly pics on those pages that Q posted (going back to page I however and not page II), that it might be Syringoma. Which sounds smaller and more like what I have.