Rise of bulging eyes in women over 40 and symptoms you can't ignore

First came what Jade O’Saye thought was a stye – a blister on the eyelid, although in her case it was on the white of her eye – then pain when she blinked. Within months, her right eye was so swollen and sore it was bulging out the socket.

‘My eye was protruding and really red and angry,’ says Jade, 40, a procurement manager for a travel company. She struggled even to close the eye to sleep.

Not only was it painful, ‘it was completely disfiguring’, she adds.

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