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[bright eyez]

Dood, I feel your pain. Did you get the cyst removed/flattened, yet? I have big one on my forehead that I've had for a while. I went and got a facial over the summer and the clinician did extractions, she left a few little ones of these as well as pits in my cheek, where I never had acne before but now I have scars.

Then Trying to get my skin worked out (it feels really dry on my cheeks) I went and got a facial last week. I told the girl NO EXTRACTIONS because of what happened the last time I had a facial (permanent scars when I'm paying to get my skin better looking). She went on this long tangent about how Sebaceous cyst are from sundamage not from picking. I should have known she didn't get my skin but she went on about how much experience she had.. so I let her do some extractions. Well the next day I notice a few small (almost flat but donut shaped marks) and some pitting on my forehead.

Now a week later 3 huge big ones are becoming really noticable right between my eyes. OOOOH God! I am HATING Skin Care people, they are scarring me for life. I feel really upset about it.

My recommendations if you are prone to sebaeous cysts don't get deep extractions done. Maybe it is just my skin, but I'm so upset for letting them tear apart my skin. I ask them if there wer any side effects to extractions and they said only temporary..

Anyone have a good way to bring these halo bumps (basically a bump with a depressed spot in the middle)? Like a mountain with a rocky crater on top. Ewww.

Thanks!!!!

[bright eyez]

I meant to say bring down the bumps of sebaceus cyst. also it sucks because not make up with get caked in the 'crater' and instead of concealing. what have people tried? what worked? what didn't.

i found on the one i have had a while.. picking mostly makes it much worse.. it widened once when i picked it. once, i soaked it for two days with a polstice (Hulga Clark said to do this) of mud and kept it damp under a bandaid. Maybe it helped getting the toxins out? Maybe? But after 3 days, it itched and was more puffy and stuckup higher, so I wouldn't reallly recommend that.

will corisol injections help? dry ice?

please help

[mesee]

I think from the picture you posted that I have a similar condition. The cyst is smaller, very deep, on the side of my nose. I'm replying because some of the other posters are describing a similar root to similar cysts; extracting blackheads and such.

Several years ago I tried to push out a blackhead on my nose. I couldn't after a minute of trying, so I let it go. Some of the blackhead must have been pushed retrograde. A few days later a huge, deep infection erupted under the skin directly below the spot where I had picked at that blackhead. The bulb of my nose was swollen and it was painful to touch any part of it. The infection didn't last long enough to warrant a trip to the doctors', just a day or so at and then it progressively healed. But, in its wake it left a small, hard knot of a cyst that hasn't budged since. It's small enough that no one can notice it but me, but large enough to be obvious to me when I see myself in a mirror or in picture. I feel or imagine a tiny pressure around the cyst. I tried everything non-invasive I could but nothing has improved it and regrettably sometimes it seems it has gotten slightly larger and more obvious for all the attention.

For some strange personal reasons the cyst is deeply traumatic to me and has occupied a lot of my mental attention. I blame myself for it (okay, that's not so strange). What is strange is that the habit of picking my face is something I was taught by an ex I am glad I am no longer with and in an odd way I regard this tiny cyst as a permanent reminder of our relationship. The two seem to occupy a similar space in my life.

I would like to figure out how to encourage my body to reabsorb the cyst, because surgery seems an absurdly expensive and dangerous option for something so minor. But I haven't found any information that would be helpful. And I haven't found a good description for the cyst. "Deeply subcutaneous" is about all I can muster and that is the search query which brought me to this thread. Some of the responses reminded me of the process which seems to have produced it in my case.

I'd be interested to hear what course of action you eventually took.


(On the positive side, concern over this cyst finally led me to this site a year ago, and in doing so led me to completely cure a case of acne I'd had for more than a decade. I realized that my acne was caused by chronic dry skin, and so I started using moisturizer after I showered to counteract the effects of water and soap. I've sparingly used elta, which is just petrolatum, paraffin, and mineral oil. This stabilized the moisture condition of my skin and finally put an end to a vicious cycle of soap-enhanced skin dryness, over-productive sebaceous glands, and acne.)

[LillyMay77]

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please guys... it's effecting my social life very hard

I was told I had a cyst as well. Your problem is probably not a cyst, but if it is I heard a heating pad on the cyst helps to reduce it, calm it, and possibly make it go away. You need to get more opinions regarding your bump. good luck

[ramschi]

I thought I'd bump this after 2 years... still no solution found =/

[ramschi]

I guess noone can help me or solved this problem... so sad =(

[ramschi]

Very depressing. Noone.

[EWWpimples]

I would go back to the dermatologist.