17 hours ago, Skinsorough said:

I think hes just trolling the internet and trying to call ppl out on this thread. Im not sure where hes getting his info but he called my post out as a scam which it certainly isnt. Its hard to tell by his babble but I think he accused me of changing my name also.

Apparently, you were right. Poor soul. Hopefully he'll recover one day.

Fun Gus -

I have not changed my name. I was the one asking you if the FIBERLOCK was a scam. Im genuinely here to seek help. I cant speak for the others.

9 hours ago, Fizika said:

Apparently, you were right. Poor soul. Hopefully he'll recover one day.

reading from top to bottom I thought you might be right then I read his babble and decided I was right then you confirmed it. Im genuinely confused on what hes doing . I have been following this thread for almost a year but never made a screen name or account until I read the shockwave comment. I didnt even know you could report ppl but since he reported me I guess Ill report him

22 hours ago, Redwine said:

I just wanted to update that my nose is completely healed! Woke up this AM to a tiny flake or two of skin on my nose that I simply pulled off but beyond that, no redness, no sore, nothing. All I did differently was last week I applied a layer of Triple Antibiotic Ointment all over the sore on my nose and surrounding area. I let it sit for 30 minutes to an hour. Wiped off the residue etc. and at night continued to apply TAO to the inside of my nose and use astringent on my face. The next day I noticed the entire outer layer of skin over the sore was raised and prominent. I pulled at the skin and it all came off almost like a sheet although certain pieces frayed (different layers of skin healing at different times). It left smooth skin but with a very reddish/pinkish hue. That lasted over the weekend and I did have two or three more small white extractions when I poked around. Ive been careful to leave it alone since, only applying TAO at night as I have been doing for weeks. Today it is 100% (to me) healed. My skin is not dewey or smooth as a whole as its cold and dry here, so tiny skin lines, dried pores, etc. give my skin a rough appearance but its all blemish free and smooth. I hope I can prevent further reoccurrences and Ill likely continue to use TAO for a long time to come. I dont know if it is Staph, Demodex, HSV, a combination or what. But for now, for the first time in a long time, I have nothing to hide or be ashamed of as I walk out the door.

Whats TAO? I missed the OP and cant scroll back to see which treatment youre talking about. The shockwave I think has been helpful to pull the white plugs to the surface. Its weird I put it on after the shower at night and it brings the plugs up, I can dig at them a bit and get some out, then I wipe away with the shockwave again and wait a few minutes and more white plugs start to push up.

TAO is triple antibiotic ointment. Im so glad such a common OTC product seems to work so well. Im holding off on the Shockwave for now since my face is clear. Hopefully this issue is behind me. Glad to hear its working for you.

On 1/24/2021 at 5:32 PM, Redwine said:

this most definitely can not be a herpes lesion (I stated that I have had these on the nose) due to the way it presents and does not heal. Herpes HEALS.

It most definitely CAN. Thesores with plugs on my chinwould not heal. Maybe due to a secondary issue.

It can take several weeks to completely heal. Cold sores are usually pretty harmless, but they can become severe in people with weak immune systems. "People can also get a secondary infection if bacteria get in the sore, such as staph, so the sore will keep crusting and it won't heal unless they get treated for both"
I've been on an antiviral since September.

The bitch is back. Noticed more prevalent white spots and spent two days extracting them, the former red spot became slightly prominent again, and after further pushing today fluid began emerging from just under the skin in the area, and a couple of deep tissue white spots burst (with more fluid), and the whole of the skin layer that seems to be infected began peeling away. The skin in the wound seems unusually moist and ready at any instant to molt and peel away like it has been dead skin for a long time. Idk how else to describe it, but definitely a necrotic type feeling. Also more straight out ejections of golden/clear matter that resemble tiny tiny blades of grass or BBQ skewers. It sounds insane but what the hell man.

is it a parasite? Fungus? I have to go to the doctor and see what they say about it. Im astounded.

On 2/11/2021 at 9:50 PM, Redwine said:

The bitch is back. Noticed more prevalent white spots and spent two days extracting them, the former red spot became slightly prominent again, and after further pushing today fluid began emerging from just under the skin in the area, and a couple of deep tissue white spots burst (with more fluid), and the whole of the skin layer that seems to be infected began peeling away. The skin in the wound seems unusually moist and ready at any instant to molt and peel away like it has been dead skin for a long time. Idk how else to describe it, but definitely a necrotic type feeling. Also more straight out ejections of golden/clear matter that resemble tiny tiny blades of grass or BBQ skewers. It sounds insane but what the hell man.

is it a parasite? Fungus? I have to go to the doctor and see what they say about it. Im astounded.

I just got Aztec Indian healing clay about 4 days ago and have been using it nightly as a mask. Its for sure helped. Have you ever tried it?

I have not tried it. I will check it out. Is it making the plugs disappear, or what exactly is it doing to improve the condition? Thanks for the info.

On 2/16/2021 at 12:14 PM, Redwine said:

I have not tried it. I will check it out. Is it making the plugs disappear, or what exactly is it doing to improve the condition? Thanks for the info.

The first couple days it cleared up all my regular acne. I really only have one spot with the white plugs, and that damn spot has been there a year! The clay seemed like it pulled them to the surface the first couple days and I could pull them right out. I think Im 6 days in now. Its only a scab, which I just picked and theres no white plugs in it and hasnt been for maybe 2 days. Over all the clay has unclogged my pores and made my skin feel great. Its $11 on Amazon. Its powder you mix with apple cider vinegar. The tub will last forever. Google before and after pix of Aztec Indian healing clay. Its also FA safe and Ive saw it recommended on all the FA sites.

Hi again. I have posted earlier here. I got this issue for over 20 years now. Learn to live with it. Invest yourself some good extraction tools and teach your other half how to do it. There is nodiagnostics. I went to see every professional you could imagine. There is few top endhealth professionals in my family and they have no clue what is it either.Nobody knows what is it. I personally think its a unknown HPV infection affects certain people. (not all!)

anyway.. i was back home in Sri Lanka for year and a half. We are vegetarian back home so i only eat home grown vegetables and occasionally naturally grown meat. NO SPOTS! At all. I thought its actually cured. Back to UK last month start eating GM foods. BOOM! Its back. ( i did actually missed picking. I know how to handle it. I have dark skin and you dont see a thing in a month.) as usual, i let i ripe. Feeding chocolate flavoured vaseline. It loves oil... Then i took the driedskin off. White plugs are exposed. Few drops of gel superglue and peeled off. Then i put some bio oil to cure the skin.Thats it.

The key is eat healthy. Be happy. And dont stress! Dont pick all the time. Just do it ones.Remember. There is no diagnosis or cure.

Achieved remission...

2g Valtrex/day for two weeks followed by 1g/day (current, expected to be long term). Gonna add a lysine supplement too.

And used this product called H-Warts day and night for about 2 weeks.

Some really huge plugs came out after starting the H warts, which I admittedly picked. But, notevery single plug was gone in an instant. There are still some white dots if I look closely. But theyre different. Theyre not like... multiplying and inflamed, with thickened skin on top. Theyre just chillin and the skin around them continues to heal and get stronger and more normal.

Currently use H-Warts mixed with adapalene gel during the day (only on spots) and regular skincare at night. Face wash is sulfacetamide 10%/sulfur 5%.

I think its really important to let this type of ailment dry out for a period of time each day. Or just not have it covered in anything thick that wont let it breathe.I like H-warts because its like a dry oil that sinks into the skin.

It did look like at times it was getting worse. But to my amazement it is completely healed. My spot was on my nose, btw.

I think this is a viral/wart thing. But totally manageable with some time and the right products.

Do you have pink or red skin on the nose where the problem was? I am so close to healed skin but the reddened skin persists and any picking at it will purge additional small white extractions either cylindrical or round shaped. The skin in the area is easily flaked and peeled. This is clearly a viral infection or fungal reaction. I dont know.

Shoober and her doctor were spot on for my personal skin saga/ curse. Myreoccurringlesion that I had for years,not weeks healed and my skin is clear.

Any trauma done to the skin makes the virus active. I was skeptical as was shoober if you read her initial post after diagnoses.

Itried doxy, sporonox, difflucan and strongest topical steroid, I even had a derminject kenolog into the lesion. All unsuccessful. Like shoober the lesion didnt fully resolve until oral Valtrex.

hope that helps someone, wish you all the same healing and clear skin.

On 2/11/2021 at 8:50 PM, Redwine said:

The bitch is back. Noticed more prevalent white spots and spent two days extracting them, the former red spot became slightly prominent again, and after further pushing today fluid began emerging from just under the skin in the area, and a couple of deep tissue white spots burst (with more fluid), and the whole of the skin layer that seems to be infected began peeling away. The skin in the wound seems unusually moist and ready at any instant to molt and peel away like it has been dead skin for a long time. Idk how else to describe it, but definitely a necrotic type feeling. Also more straight out ejections of golden/clear matter that resemble tiny tiny blades of grass or BBQ skewers. It sounds insane but what the hell man.

is it a parasite? Fungus? I have to go to the doctor and see what they say about it. Im astounded.

So sorry Redwing. I've been having good luck using a clay sulfer mask as a spot treatment on the formerly healed places that start getting red and puffy. Then when I'm cleaning my face, I am super careful to blot the spots with a wet washcloth until the clay dissolves- don't want to tear that fragile skin. After ~2 days of that, the red is gone, puffy is gone, white plugs did not proliferate. The area is fragile and takes a few more days to be normal. Then moisturizing - this polar vortex is so hard on my skin!

I am also still using the sulfur ointment every three days or so on entire face for 30 minutes, then wash. Seems to help.

Best to you in your healing. Thanks to all for the kindness and info sharing. I am learning and encouraged.

On 2/21/2021 at 5:36 PM, looop887 said:

Achieved remission...

2g Valtrex/day for two weeks followed by 1g/day (current, expected to be long term). Gonna add a lysine supplement too.

 

And used this product called H-Warts day and night for about 2 weeks.

 

Some really huge plugs came out after starting the H warts, which I admittedly picked. But, notevery single plug was gone in an instant. There are still some white dots if I look closely. But theyre different. Theyre not like... multiplying and inflamed, with thickened skin on top. Theyre just chillin and the skin around them continues to heal and get stronger and more normal.

Currently use H-Warts mixed with adapalene gel during the day (only on spots) and regular skincare at night. Face wash is sulfacetamide 10%/sulfur 5%.

 

I think its really important to let this type of ailment dry out for a period of time each day. Or just not have it covered in anything thick that wont let it breathe.I like H-warts because its like a dry oil that sinks into the skin.

 

It did look like at times it was getting worse. But to my amazement it is completely healed. My spot was on my nose, btw.

 

I think this is a viral/wart thing. But totally manageable with some time and the right products.

Hi Loop! Congrats on the Valtrex. Is it still working for you?

On 2/22/2021 at 11:18 PM, Redwine said:

Do you have pink or red skin on the nose where the problem was? I am so close to healed skin but the reddened skin persists and any picking at it will purge additional small white extractions either cylindrical or round shaped. The skin in the area is easily flaked and peeled. This is clearly a viral infection or fungal reaction. I dont know.

YES. It will be red/pink for a period of time! But just be patient. Some of the redness/pinkness is natural scarring/healing occurring. Especially if you have picked at the area repeatedly. Give it time and keep it out of the sun. Keep track of its progress on the scale of months, not days and not even weeks.I do want to make it clear that the white plugs were still there to some extent as it was/is healing. They do not all magically go away.That is probably a process that takes month as the skin re-establishes integrity and the scarring and keratin plugs are slowly dissolved. But what did seem to happen was that the plugs stopped multiplying/growing. The antiviral seemed to halt the lesion and time and patience are whats returning the skin to a healthy state. There were times when it was healing that I could most definitely have extracted white plugs. But then I would have been back at square 1. I think picking spreads the infection, re-ignites the infection, and introduces secondary infections. Some days it may look more red than before but thats also just the normal wound healing process.

On 2/26/2021 at 6:13 PM, Elbee said:

So sorry Redwing. I've been having good luck using a clay sulfer mask as a spot treatment on the formerly healed places that start getting red and puffy. Then when I'm cleaning my face, I am super careful to blot the spots with a wet washcloth until the clay dissolves- don't want to tear that fragile skin. After ~2 days of that, the red is gone, puffy is gone, white plugs did not proliferate. The area is fragile and takes a few more days to be normal. Then moisturizing - this polar vortex is so hard on my skin!

I am also still using the sulfur ointment every three days or so on entire face for 30 minutes, then wash. Seems to help.

Best to you in your healing. Thanks to all for the kindness and info sharing. I am learning and encouraged.

Hi Loop! Congrats on the Valtrex. Is it still working for you?

Im still on Valtrex and use the H-Warts once daily. I have some scarringbut finally healed enough to have a laser appointment next week to smoothit out a bit. overall im really happy and optimistic about life again. This was a depressing, lonely experience.

To anyone affected, dont mistake scarring (from picking) w/ an active lesion and pick more as a result. Remember it can take a couple months for things to start looking okay to you again. I knew as soon as I started the wart topical and eventually with the Valtrex it was truly healing. Healing can take a long time and sometimes look red and not amazing. Blood will flow to the healing skin and cause some diffuse redness. But after starting the antivirals it never got to the point where it looked swollen/thickened again. The skin continuedto heal and strengthenand the white plugsabsorbed.Before it would be very stagnant. weeks would go by of the same white plugs just hanging around with the surrounding skin looking very red and simultaneously thick/dry/flakyin some places and thin and fragile in others. In some places it felt like there were scaly layers of skin covering what were dozens of white plugs. If I picked the offending white plug, it would be followed by tons of oozing and actual relief of pressure/inflammation. But it was very clear to me after starting the h-warts/valtrex picking was no longer beneficial. Its hard to exactly explain but I finally knew in my gut for the first time in 4+ years it was actually healing... and as a result lost all desire to pick.

History of:

-extremely strong antibiotics (topical and oral, no clearance)

-oral antifungals (no clearance)

-accutane (no clearance)

Success with Valtrexand a topical wart medicinewith the following active ingredients:

Phytolacca decandra -12C HPUS (forwarts), Thuja occidentalis -12C HPUS (locally forwarts)

On 10/11/2019 at 1:23 AM, SlickClick said:

Someone from another webpost put a link to this thread; here is a copy paste of my situation back in 2017 and the results I was able to get since then...

June 2017 Post: 
A photo from Google lead me to this Thread; because the "Fleshy Plug" in the photo looks a lot like what I have (and others posting here) from what started out as a feeling like I got punched in the arm (or a vaccine shot) let me explain...

About 5 months ago I woke up and my side arm/shoulder was hurting as if someone had punched me in it; more so it felt exactly like the pain I had after getting a Tetanus Vaccine Shot after a motorcycle accident around 2006... The area was slightly irritated in look (slightly tan red as I am tan skin tone) and hard to the touch in an area that was about the size of an oreo cookie...

I began to massage and skin roll the area (BIG MISTAKE!!!) and the area began to soften up and it actually began to come to/form a zit/pimple type head, this popped rather easy a small amount of puss like a small pimple came out nothing uncommon it seemed; and then just a bunch of clear (interstitial fluid or possibly the demodex mites secretion???) came out...

One thing seemed odd about the location too as it seemed like it was in exactly the same area I received the shot; like the pimple seemed to be right where I got that shot at and the pain was exactly the same and considering much of the medical industry has no clue how or where these pimples come or form from its my opinion that some sort of bio-toxin from the Vaccine caused it or that the mite is actually cross inhabitating humans from animals; specifically dogs...
My neighbor gave us a couch and he had dogs; however no one else in the household has any signs of these at all...

Over the next day or two it began to look as if it was healing like a normal popped zit; but then it just stayed a Hard Purple Scab Color but it was Not a scab it was a Very Hard Purple zit; as if it was a hard blot clot just under the skin...

At this point I went to work to get that thing out of me; think it was an ingrown hair as that is what it kind of looked like... I basically ripped and scrubbed the hard lump off down to what I thought was my raw flesh; but no in-grown hair... It then seemed to be healing like normal, but it never turned to a scab it turned to a white hard skin callus...

For me this was odd as all my life my wounds always healed well and in the same manner this was different...

I soaked in the tub and the hard white callus came off after some scrubbing... This is when I noticed what looks like white heads in my pores under this false scab, so I used the tweezers to pluck them out a few looked like small fleshy hairs; then I plucked one that looked like a tadpole but the size of an ant (have a photo of an extracted one, dont know how to post it)... Since then I have pulled over a dozen large ones and the layers come back with force thicker...

I then found this thread and tried a few things to see if I can rid them or get them into balance... So far not much has worked; it is however staying local to its original location...

I want to note too I noticed my friends 17 year old son has one still in the first hard purple pimple stage; he said hes had it for going on 3 years now, they have a dog...
A couple other people I know also had them one on the scalp and stomach others on their shoulders and backs; all also dog owners or in households with dogs...  
Vaccine status isn't know for the other parties at this time; however they all had to get them cut out and sticked up surgically...

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May 2019 Post(s): 

A neighbor of mine got a Tetanus shot in the arm about a week later he had the exact same symptoms painful hard purplish lump which turned callus hard after popping/picking...  
The Doctors prescribed him 2% "Mupirocin" Ointment; it worked for him after a couple weeks, mine was well over a year almost 2 years in now... This Ointment works somewhat but never really got rid of it in the sense that it would heal like a "Normal" wound would...

A few months ago another neighbor friend got a wart on his hand and his Grandmother is like 80+y/o she told him tear it out some and put Crushed Aspirin in the wound and cover it with a band-aid...
He did that for about a week or two and it went away....

After seeing that I decided to do the ever painful but relieving callus rip out which usually results in plugs being yanked out or exposed enough to yank out...
I found that soaking the area in tub helps loosen up the Callus and if you use Hydrogen-Peroxide it will fry the callus into a white soft flesh that usually is easily torn off... So I would use a combination of soaking and holding a cap of Peroxide on the wound to get as much of the Fleshy Plug Callus to surface...

After this "cleaning" or Plucking Session I packed it with crushed Aspirin; put some of the Mupirocin cream on the Band-Aid and put it on...
I have been doing this now for going into the 3rd week now; If feels as if all the Hard Callus area is now gone and the center no longer Calluses up overnight and the wound is healing in a normal fashion...

My advice now is to soak & tear the Callus off, then soak the open wound with Peroxide pluck and clean some more (I often wipe my hands and area with rubbing alcohol too)  and then Finally pack the wound with Aspirin... I did this Twice a day in the AM after sleeping and in the evening before bed... I do it more often if I feel like it but usually no less than Twice a day until I began to see results and all the hard Callus was gone...

Hope this helps..! 

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General Routine: 

Steps to Remove Hard Callus w/ Fleshy Plugs under in Pores:
1. Soak the area in warm water; usually a nice long hot bath does well...
2. Tear off and remove the Callus surface to expose the deeper flesh area which often times the plug head can be seen...
3. Soak area in Hydrogen-peroxide this will cause the effected Callus area to turn to a soft dead skin white color and easier to remove from the body...
4. Apply Crushed Aspirin to the open wound & cover w/ Band-Aid...

Please note that I also used 2% Mupirocin Ointment for some time with slight results for my long term lesion; results really took place after the application of Aspirin to the open wound...

I repeated this Twice a day for about 3 weeks until all the Hard Callus area was gone and the wound felt and appears to be healing like a normal wound on my body does...

On 10/11/2019 at 1:40 AM, SlickClick said:

Here is a Couple Photos of what I have Removed Over the Years...

 

On 10/17/2019 at 12:41 AM, SlickClick said:

From the looks of other photos the OP (ColdHoneydew), Leesamo, Anne84, & myself all have very similar if not exactly the same thing...
My hunch is that it is a Viral By-Product of a Vaccine; kind of like getting Shingles when your old from having Chicken Pox when young... 

Regardless; the only thing that killed these things off for me and stopped the growing/digging feeling these things create when alive and active is the Crushed Aspirin put directly into the wound... 

Its my belief/opinion that because Aspirin is really Acetysalicylic Acid which (is Salicylic Acid & Acetic Acid put together) I think the Salicylic Acid ingredient kills the Organism...  

Here is a photo(s) of the area now that it no longer flairs up painfully in the center anymore; the Aspirin burns the layers of the organism away until it gets to your natural flesh & the white spots in the middle go away killing off whatever is left in the outer ring scar can be tricky but simply plucking any area (that pimples/flairs up on the ring scar) open and packing it with Aspirin dies it right up in a couple days and begins to heal normal again... 

For the few that I mention above whos photos are similar you have very little to lose at this point by slapping some aspirin in the wound...
Also I have a friend whos dad works at the Recycling Plant and he said he has had them/this in the past and the Dermatologist hits it with Liquid Nitrogen and it freezes up and falls off after a few days leaving a similar scar... 

ADDING TO MY EXPERIENCE THUS FAR:
Since my last update and use of Aspirin in the wound directly on the "Fleshy Plugs" those have not returned... 
However the Callus wart like growth Ive continued to battle...

I have come to the conclusion that Two things are happening...
First a sebaceous gland infection of some sort infiltrates the pores in that area causing an Immune response isolates it some what where the body dukes it out... The Immune response likely causes more Interstitial Fluid to the area which I believe is what the digging feeling is; as the sebum plug grow/feed...

The second thing that is happening (if the skin calluses) is a wart infection of some sorts... Which is Viral...

So the one (sebum infection) is caused by a bacterial infection of the sebum gland and the weaken skin cell then allows for the wart enzyme to repopulate... 

The upside to the cure is that it is the same "Salicylic Acid" ingredient that rids them both... Basically since ridding the area of the "Fleshy Plugs" ie Sebum Glad Infection with crushed aspirin; next was to rid the wart cells...
I have been using over the counter "Wart Stick" (40% Salicylic Acid) from CVS daily since the last posting... Best results to date...
I soak the area til the callus whitens; remove any dead skin soap water clean dry and then apply the Wart Stick; I do this at least twice a day and have seen very good results in the area healing back towards normality...

Good luck to everyone in their ventures for answers and relief; I too do truly understand the pain and am fortunate to only have one on my arm....
I do hope sharing my experience helps others as well... 

Finally found some helpful œmeds

Ive had pretty bad keratosis pilaris for about 20 years (37 now). It flared up every few weeks and as I™ve been getting older, it seemed to spread across my body. My face isn™t too badly affected, but my body is now covered in large ugly lesions, very similar to the ones described in other posts here. 
 

My skin broke out in lesions shortly after my son was born four months ago. This is the worst it™s ever been! I™ve been researching demodex brevis and my symptoms do seem to match an œinfestation, but WOW the lesions I have now are the worst. 
 

I have to go through several œstages with each one, first removing the innocent-looking white plug at the top, then the scab it forms, which reveals more plug-like things and gunky stuff coming out. After this a slightly indented flat scab forms and a few black specks usually appear inside or around the edges of the sore. Once I pull at those, they come out with what seems to be very old, hard, dried up plugs. Some of them also have a soft large white plug thing in the middle, which can be surprisingly hard to pull out. My sores also bleed profusely for a bit.

I came across a recent study that found that 1g diclofenac sodium (Emulgel) applied daily dramatically reduced demodex brevis numbers, inflammation of follicles and scarring. It seems to help; Ive been using it for about three weeks.

Ive also started using HOCl - hypochlorous acid, as a 0.001% solution in water. Whenever I extract the plugs, I make sure to spray it directly onto the wound several times. It is very gentle on the skin and kills almost all bacteria etc. It helps my wounds to heal faster... 

I™ve yet to visit a dermatologist because doctors always tell me that it™s my own fault and that I should œexfoliate and moisturise
These pics show lesions on my arms in various stages of healing. My whole body looks like this except for my back, scalp and thank goodness, most of my face has been spared. 
My skin texture has refined considerably since I started using diclofenak, HOCl, as well as castor oil at night (said to suffocate demodex mites).

Good luck to all of you.

SlickClickI dont think this isfroma vaccine. You can try topical ivermectin for demodex.

Charlz yours looks super picked at. Not saying that to be accusatory (trust me Im quite the picker myself),just thatpicking makes things worse and prolongs healing and scarring, especially if its KP because new bumps will just keep popping up. Unfortunately KP just happens.I hadKP too at one point.Try a salicylic acid/sulfur body wash. Theres one on Amazon by Dermaharmony. Havent had any KP bumps since I started using it. Some of your scabs look deep/slightly infected. Just give it time and I promise things will heal up and look better and smooth.I know of diclofenac... it might just help with redness/tenderness but probably will do nothing for preventing new KP plugs.

that said, the KP on my upper arms was not at all like the lesions on my face.

I switched to something called Zymaderm. Itsfor molluscumbut has a lot of good anti-wart ingredients (and the same thuja H-Warts has). I found H-Warts was a little irritating, probably due to the citrus peel oil. Zymaderm is supposed to be non-stinging/irritating. Will see how it goes andupdate. So far still healing.But Im afraid to withdraw the anti-wart topical as its only 1 month on the Valtrex. Thats why Im trying to find something less irritating for long term use

Dear looop887

No worries, I know my skin looks bad and it is partly due to me picking at the lesions... but omg stuff keeps coming out of them! 
The last of the last stages of œeruption often contains a small black speck or fiber-like thing, which is visible as it appears just underneath the scab or skin. When that is removed, I apply my 0.01% HOCl solution and the lesion heals up pretty quickly.

I can usually see if there is still something inside the lesion and I™m usually right. If I leave said lesions alone, the skin will heal over it but the bump will remain and grow until everything inside has been removed. Once I get hold of the central bugger (often there are 2-5 in one lesion) and pull it out, bleeding starts. 
 

The fibers and plugs from my lesions look quite a bit like those in Morgellon™s articles on the Net.... but my skin has never been this bad... I erupted in the lesions all over my body about two weeks after experiencing a very traumatic birth experience and several days in hospital, with lots of antibiotics due to c-section. 
 

My general skin texture has improved a LOT since I started treating with HOCl, castor oil, clary sage, diclofenac etc, but the remaining lesions are stubborn! Like I said, only once all the contents have been removed, do the lesions heal, and this (the removal and healing) can take more than two weeks. 
 

Anyway, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I™ll be visiting a dermatologist asap because some of my lesions are not healing well and I think they resemble squamous cell carcinoma...

Take care! 

On 3/6/2021 at 10:02 PM, Charlz420 said:

Dear looop887

No worries, I know my skin looks bad and it is partly due to me picking at the lesions... but omg stuff keeps coming out of them! 
The last of the last stages of œeruption often contains a small black speck or fiber-like thing, which is visible as it appears just underneath the scab or skin. When that is removed, I apply my 0.01% HOCl solution and the lesion heals up pretty quickly.

I can usually see if there is still something inside the lesion and I™m usually right. If I leave said lesions alone, the skin will heal over it but the bump will remain and grow until everything inside has been removed. Once I get hold of the central bugger (often there are 2-5 in one lesion) and pull it out, bleeding starts. 
 

The fibers and plugs from my lesions look quite a bit like those in Morgellon™s articles on the Net.... but my skin has never been this bad... I erupted in the lesions all over my body about two weeks after experiencing a very traumatic birth experience and several days in hospital, with lots of antibiotics due to c-section. 
 

My general skin texture has improved a LOT since I started treating with HOCl, castor oil, clary sage, diclofenac etc, but the remaining lesions are stubborn! Like I said, only once all the contents have been removed, do the lesions heal, and this (the removal and healing) can take more than two weeks. 
 

Anyway, thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I™ll be visiting a dermatologist asap because some of my lesions are not healing well and I think they resemble squamous cell carcinoma...

Take care! 

 

The keratin plugs from KP behave almost like foreign objects once irritated. They will form nightmarish red bumps that don™t seem to heal if you try to pop a KP bump and don™t successfully remove the keratin plug on the first go. Anyway I hope yours is nothing serious. If it is KP check out the salicylic acid/sulfur wash. 

The viral situation: I switched to Zymaderm and it™s amazing stuff! Got rid of my remaining redness.Still on Valtrex, still healing!

I HAVE A SOLUTION ON HOW TO GET THE PLUGS OUT WITHOUT DIGGING, MAKING A MESS AND GETTING SCARS!

At least it works for me and you can try. For whatever reason how thiscomes about every once in awhile I will get that open wound with that white plug with maybe several plugs. Maybe this isn't the best thing to do but if you have a SALICYLIC ACID serum or a serum that has that ingredient in high percentage(if not try another serum that has the acid family in it, try more gentle if you can) I drench the end of a Q TIP in the serum and as gently as I can,rub the the end of the QTIP back and forth against the opening of the plug area. Only do that for a few seconds.When I look at the QTIP I notice a bunch of plugs loosened and dislodged attached to the QTIP. Then if there is still someremainder plugs left, the NEXT STEP I do now that the white plugs should be somewhat loosened because of the SA serum and the slight friction of the QTIP,there are usually deeply rooted white plugs still in there, I take ANOTHER QTIP, slather AQUAPHOR on the end of the QTIP and gently layer it over the open sore white plug areas. Wait about 15 minutes. Go back into the bathroom and depending what you are more comfortable with take a clean QTIP and wipe off the AQUAPHOR/ kind of do a gentle rub before wiping off the AQUAPHOR or just use tissue paper to wipe away AQUAPHOR over the white plug areas and that should have released the white plugs and gotten them out. I accidentally came across this solution. If you are really trying to be as gentle as can be and trying not dig or even touch your skin in any way in the fear of scarring, then you can try skipping the 1st step with the SALICYLIC ACID serum and just go ahead and try the AQUAPHOR first and see if that does it for youbecause what the AQUAPHOR does is soften the skin up and the plugs and for some reason just released all my plugs I slathered in it. I actually didn't even have to wait 15 minutes but I would wait just in case because everyones skin is different. It may be that the SA serum stephelped loosen the plugs and thats why the AQUAPHOR step worked so well, but it isup to you what you want to try.

Anyways this is what has WORKED FOR ME.... I am just passing this along because I know the pain of having to dig and dig and makinga mess, and getting scabs and then sometimes you pick at those scabs and then you start all over and then you get a bad scar. The way I explained in this post was the most minimally invasive way for me to get those white plugs out of there! I hope it can work for you. I would to know if anyone ends up trying this and it worked for them or not.

I highly suggest everybody experiencing issues like this (each anecdote is similar but seems to vary) to get tested for HSV. I am almost convinced that this has to be the cause for my issues. Somehow Ive gotten a serious HSV breakout in my nasal area and it continues to present in the same spot at the tip of my nose.

I say this because what else could it be? I can baby my skin all week and use antibiotic ointment or anti fungal medication and not touch it and still the watery, moist underlying skin presents with strange protrusions that can be extracted when I squeeze the area. They do not exit the skin like a keratin plug (if Im confident in what I consider a keratin plug) or a simple clogged pore. They exit very fast and almost viral like to the eye. I do not know what they could be or if they are simply sebaceous filament or keratin but exit the skin differently due to that particular skin being damaged. Its too hard to really classify.

I guess my next step is a dermatologist to see if theyve ever seen something like it before. Because this obviously doesnt heal with the provisions Ive taken so I need something else or another approach. Its such a stressful situation because there are no real answers. Just try this or that and hope. Its really deflating.

Dear fellow sufferers 

Don™t despair! We™ll find ways to beat this thing.

Thank you to those who replied to my initial posts.  I feel so alone in my experience of this; this forum is the only place I can express anything about what is happening to me.

I have yet to visit the dermatologist:((( Please don™t judge me - I'm 37 and so I™ve been judged on my skin tons of times before - you all know what I mean (right?)... I™m so afraid of being told (again) that I must be dirty, or terminally ill, or worse, mentally ill - all of which I KNOW are untrue, but I don™t think I could stand being called œcrazy again, not at this stage. I™ll go next week... 

I wanted to share with everyone that, since I started using the hypochlorous acid 0.01% solution spray several times a day on my skin, I™ve had continuous... œerruptions, I guess, of weird yellow slimy stuff (easily and gently removed with œroots in bathtub) with roots, and also black bits/liquid, oozing from the tiny crater. 
 

I personally think, after at least 20 years of struggling with what appeared superficially to be KP (?!), that my immune system was severely compromised after pregnancy and emergency (traumatic) c-section. Around 2 weeks postpartum, my usual pesky herd of keratosis pilaris pimples turned into a colony. 
 

I™ve applied castor oil before bed about 3 nights a week, bathed in lavender oil moderately warm water then carefully extracted the soft yellow snotty stuff (so disgusting, I know) . After œextracting from the lesion a few times (it goed through stages...) a small black speck, seed or hair-shaped object appears underneath the skin surface. It™s definitely not a human hair though. There is no root. 
These lesions won™t heal until I remove the slimy pluggy yellowy (and black!) contents.

I always keep my HOCl spray handy and try my best to extract/prod super gently. If I don™t remove the scab, it either comes off in bed when it™s dry, or it heals over and continues being and looking like what it is - a major follicle infection/obstruction. This is why I actively remove the scabs and contents now. 
 

I don™t think I™m developing new lesions... these ones contain seemingly antiquated whatevers - up until the very last healing stage, there will be a blackish center on the lesion, which has a tiny root when gently removed. Only after that final thing is removed, will my lesions heal. 
 

Thank all the gods for HOCl - I think it might be the thing that is killing and allowing my skin to extract these things without experiencing major infection symptoms. 
 

I will def get tested for candida etc as well... for now, the rest of my skin is looking better than ever and these awful sores appear to be expelling many years™ worth of who knows what. It actually hurts pulling out the big curly one in the pic below. It feels like its pulling directly on a nerve or something inside my body, but it™s also a foreign object that I really want to remove.

Only constructive/positive comments please. (No, I™m not on drugs, I don™t have any major health issues that I know of, but I had tick bite fever when I was 10. Almost died. My big toes™ nails have been surgically altered due to ingrown toenails, and soon after became infected with a fungus that makes them thick and yellow. I™m pretty good about personal hygiene, especially given my current skin condition. Not using any oily substances or moisturizer at the moment - HOCl is surprisingly gentle.)

In the pics you can see some of my lesions (on arms). I™ve been using HOCl regularly since 2 Feb 2021. These... nests (?!?! Puke) have been expelling their contents ever since. 
 

Has anyone experienced something similar? Blessings x

Hi folks!

I can't tell you how much this post helped me! THANK YOU!

I thought I'm going insane.

I have exactly the same problem described and so did my mother, who visited every dermatologist under the sun, just to be offered psychological help for her terrible picking habit. That is the reason I haven't seeked help, nobody seems to know anything about this condition and I get the impression I am generally labeled as insane. It looks as if I have a meth habit and I get so self conscious and do not want to leave the house at times.

Currently I am fighting with a doomsday spot on my chin. I have pulled out about 15 or 20 of these plug things over the last eight weeks. The main one is still coming up from deep below and the scar will be prominent.

It will not heal, unless they are out. Everything exactly as described by other sufferers! Like a splinter...

However, I will try everything mentioned above and I'm thankful knowing there's other people with this weird condition.

Hi all,

I am not sure how many of you will relate to this issue of "white plugs" being "sebaceous filaments" and they end up looking bloody and crazy looking because we dig deeper and pick and pick and bring up more tissue attached along with it.... I mean that is the phase I was at at one point. I just read an article on Cosmopolitan and I do not know if I am allowed to post a link on here so I am going to cut and paste the information from the article that gave advice from a Dermatologist. I posted this because at this point, I am hoping any little bit of information from anyone could help.

Dr. Nazarian says, when squeezed out of the pore, they resemble a thin filament (hence the name).
Can you squeeze sebaceous filaments?

I mean, can you? Yes, *technically* you can squeeze them out. But should you? Definitely not. I dont recommend squeezing, because the tissue around the pores can be damaged with aggressive pressure and can lead to scarring, Dr. Nazarian. Not only that, but excessive squeezing of your pores can actually stretch them out and make them permanently larger in the long run.
How do you get rid of sebaceous filaments?

Your skin needs a certain amount of sebum to stay healthy, so the goal is not to get rid of those sebaceous filaments completely (nor can you). Still, to prevent them from turning into actual breakouts, Dr. Nazarian recommends exfoliating with topical medications, such as glycolic acid, retinoids, and salicylic acid, to break down the plugs and dissolve them. Eventually, your pores will refill, so like a game of Whac-a-Mole, those sebaceous filaments will pop right back up, requiring you to be consistent in your routine.

Just make sure not to overdo it. If you overuse these treatments, the sebaceous gland activity can decrease too much, and skin can become too dry, so use sparingly, she says. You hear that? Spar-ing-ly. Now go forth and try one of these products to reduce your sebaceous filaments. ( the products she posted was like Differin, proactiv adapalane, dr. dennis gross alpha beta pads, anything you finds with the ingredients listed above)