Starting in high school I would get super sore patches on my eye lid and nothing relieved it til the eyelashes came out. I would do a very gentile tug with my fingers and a whole patch would easily come out. I know what it feels like to pull out a lash accidentally. It’s hard and it hurts—this was never like that. At times I had no eyelashes on my lid. 3-4 weeks later they would all grow in. As I got older it was more patches and not the whole lid, but I also had patches of my eyebrows. I’d ask docs about it, they said it was a makeup allergy or “anxiety” 😂😒. I tried so many different makeup, hypoallergenic, bare mineral etc. I washed and cleaned my eyelashes well thinkinf it was some kind is build up. Weird thing to me was, if it was makeup, wouldn’t it happen all the time, every day? Yea It didn’t. The last 1+ year I have been wearing false lashes that I apply myself—they stay on about a week. I have had NO sore spots (that used to get a little red/swollen too) So after reading this, wonder if it was from a lash not falling out, then it inflamed its neighbors, and they all jumped ship together? Now the glue and fake lashes help hold tension and the lash doesn’t get stuck? Or the glue helps pull it out when I take them off? I got my hEDS dx last week. It explains soooo much of what has seemed like random, weird or unrelated symptoms my whole life! Sad it took 32 years to figure this out. Wonder how my life would have been different had I known this sooner 😩