Seriously. I woke up and hit my left eyebrow against a desk table, end up busting my eyebrow. I don't know what the hell to do right now. I see like a small hole there right but I got the bleeding to stop, and now I am totally worried that I ruin my looks. I need advice about what I should do since I know its in the most vulnerable stage to be fix.

Opinions.

If it's small, it's not an issue and it will heal properly. If it's larger, it may require a stitch or a butterfly bandage to hold the edges together while it heals. A doctor, emergency care center or hospital could tell you more if you are unsure.

Good advice as usual Dena. 

Jeanette

I read elbow instead of eyebrow and was really confused why that would hurt your looks... But yeah, if there's any doubt ask a doctor, in general skin is pretty good at repairing itself, but one or two stitches now might prevent a scar later if it's big enough for that to be a concern.

I went to the ER and got stitches. They said it wouldn't scar too bad.

It doesn't look as bad as I thought it would be afterwards.... I thought I lost half my eyebrow. lol

When I was in my teens my, I went down to the corner to tell my brother it was time to come home. I started home and when I was a couple of hundred feet away I turned around to see if he was following and he picked up a rock and threw it at me. It arched through the sky and nailed me in the middle of my glasses. Fortunately the glass was the newer heat tempered break resistant type so all the rock did to the glasses was to put a few small nicks in it. Unfortunately the rock drove the frame into my eye brow and opened a cut down the middle. My parents didn't take me to get stitches and I have an open spot in one of my eyebrows because of it. My eyebrows were shaped with electrolysis so the shape has been restored but I need to use brow powder to cover the gap when I am going someplace more formal and I want it to look better.

Nobody has ever mentioned it but I know it's there and how it got there.

Dena,

   I too have a gap in my left eyebrow. I don't remember for sure how I got it but it could be from being on the receiving end of a rock thrown by a friend in the 6th grade. We were throwing rocks at a sign and I was between the sign and him when I looked up at the wrong time. I got to spend 6 days in the men's eye ward of the San Diego military hospital with a partially detached cornea.

  Rocks and eyes do not play well together...

  Hugs,
    Jeanette

If I was my 10-15 year old self trust me, I wouldn't had the "wisdom" to get stitches as rapidly as I did (less than 3 hours). I don't care about money when it comes to my eyebrows. But I know the hell that I needed to get it done. I take my eyebrows seriously, it's my "good" eyebrow, since it kind of looks like young Madonna's eyebrows.

Quote from: JeanetteLW on March 08, 2017, 11:08:35 AM
Dena,

   I too have a gap in my left eyebrow. I don't remember for sure how I got it but it could be from being on the receiving end of a rock thrown by a friend in the 6th grade. We were throwing rocks at a sign and I was between the sign and him when I looked up at the wrong time. I got to spend 6 days in the men's eye ward of the San Diego military hospital with a partially detached cornea.

  Rocks and eyes do not play well together...

  Hugs,
    Jeanette

Damn, I was thinking earlier, what if I landed on my eyeball instead of my eyebrow (and damage my eye instead of my eyebrow).

Eyes are serious objects, I am walking "temporarily" with an self-made eye patch and it's like I am half involve with the world. And my bad eye is the one I am using.... "it can see up close, but not far away". So computers are actually easier to use since my good eye sees distance better, but less than my bad eye.

Well Miss Flower of the wild variety...

  I'm just glad for you that it wasn't your eye and I am glad also you were smart enough to realize it was serious enough to go have something done about it.
  You're right eyes are serious things. I could have been blinded by that darned rock instead of being spoiled in that men's ward being carried everywhere I needed to go and being fed decent food for the 3 days I had patches on both eyes so the left one would not move with the right and still spoiled the other 3 days.. For a sixth grader it was TERRIBLE! (wink wink)
   Unfortunately I am still having eye troubles with a recent small retina tear that needed laser surgery so it doesn't get worse and finding out at the same visit that I have the beginnings of macular degeneration in both eyes. Darn it I must be getting old. :-(  LOL

   Like I said I'm glad you did the smart thing.

  Hugs,
    Jeanette

Thanks. I have lattice degeneration going on in my bad eye, and astigmatism so I understand eye problems quite well (although I fear the worst yet to come as I age). Luckily it wasn't my eye, but my eyebrow, cause I can't afford to lose my eye sight.

It's annoying actually right now with one eye, because I feel like I can't talk to people as well as I did... I feel like "they are looking at me... and they talk to me more in fact"  (I have it shut so it can heal properly (I won't take this off until the swelling goes down); cosmetic purposes it's black and blue). People become more direct to me now, I was at the clinic and they were like laughing underneath their breath like I was special, the two dudes who direct people to where to go.... like I walked in and they said, "you're eye patch is falling! lol". But you know, I can survive still.... no two eyes are better than one, but one eye makes it's easier to focus *cause of astigmatism*.

On the plus side, I don't get that annoying, "unfocused" dimension feeling, and I got to look away to focus-refocus.

God damn. My eye is healing, but the aftermath is like.... it's the perfect eyebrow. I can't believe it. It made me better looking lol. I am in love with my eyebrow now.

It gave me a Nick Jonas' look... but in fact it's more symmetrical to my 'bad' eyebrow (it's not bad, but it's not my best eyebrow).

Hey Miss Flower

   All that trouble and worry just to get a better eyebrow?  It's a little much isn't it?

Glad no lasting damage was done and it turned out well for you.

  Hugs,
   Jeanette

It was really bad when this happened, the original post was like 30 minutes into the situation. Even the people at work told me to stay home for the past few days (I get paid regardless), because how bad it look. I been wearing an eyepatch to hide the bruises.

I was really afraid that it would destroy my "look", in fact it looks better now *to me at least*,.... but it was really ugly when this happened. It taught me a lot of lessons of life too, by walking with an eyepatch I realize how people treated people differently on disabilities *the world is a kinder place to me with the eyepatch on, I went to fast food restaurant and the lady gave me free cookies*. And that, looks aren't everything *they play a big factor in people's interactions though*, but otherwise I was still the same person.... I am kind of glad I went through this. It also taught me that I can survive without vision in one eye (eyepatch). This was a special occasion in my life. Plus having the days off gave me a lot of time to think about my life and where I am going, and what not **honestly it may look like I have a lot of free time, but I work a lot of hours**.

My other eye was slightly bruised, and so I think that confirm to people I wasn't walking with an eyepatch to make a fashion statement, but it kind of look like a "Lady Gaga" look.

I'm still bruised up, but I can tell it will look nice afterwards. **it looks better, who would had thought that! lol**





But seriously, I felt like I was a movie star and everyone was staring at me (they did stare at me) .... it wasn't comfortable. It was like, something primitive in people that provoke people to stare at me due to the eyepatch. I guess it's fear that it could happened to them.... or else why would they stare?

Thank you everyone who responded!

This forum is a life-saver, seriously!