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For who is following: I have a allergy test and a GI doc appointments coming soon, I'm trying to cover all ends. Curious to see what they say. For myself most of my body has healed, my arms are still in progress. So far what I have noticed is once the long strain of hair aka PARASITE leaves from a area the wound and plugs start to heal. After I was able to use the athletic tape for months on months and removed the outer layers (which was every single pore on my body) my skin literally feels lighter and looks brighter. I suggest the wormwood and papaya seeds! I been dealing with this for over 25 years now and this is the best I have looked! I been cleaning myself from the inside out.
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I don't understand why I became victim of unprovoked attack for fact I stated people have different issues, and at no point I accused this guy of making or faking things up....amd my post in first place was NOT targeting him
Just for your info Mr who attacked. my ex GP send me over 40x times to psychiatric hospital accusing me of OCD and taking off/dogging out own skin where she did not bother even biopsy or swab. Turned out she herself suffers delusions and Is sick with FDIA mental disorder.
Current GP was patient, he listened what is going on and how 'those plug like wounds' differ from all other wounds ala in depth, in how infection is never ending(reminds of recurring cysts, but without sac wall and appears almost like adhesion to deeper layers). He listened what is coming out of wounds, what I use and how I clean wounds plus looked at pictures I provided of infection with dates and sizes of wound.
He did swab and put me on broader spectrum co amoxiclav 500/125mgwith penicillin. Only started yesterday and is one week course and follow up.
@melissamartin I feel the same. I feel so seen, I could cry just because I have hope with the new advice Ive read in the forum. So grateful and guys were all gunna get through it. Im sorry we all dealt with this.
i also wanted to add:
Eg. You and many ppl can suffer stomach unbearable pain and whole body widespread pain(where I suffer congenital deformities of legs and had multiple surgeries), fatigue etc(my story). Go to see 5-10 doctors. Bcuz recently very trendy, LOW MAINTANANCE(JUST GOVE FOME ANTIDEPRESSANTS) are mental health issues, about 5drs will tell you it's stress and anxiety especially if you have long hours and demanding job.
Other 2-3 drs may tell you it's IBS syndrome(part of my disorder) where eh you suffer multiple other symptoms indicating totally different condition. You keep going, keep suffering, lose job, friends, everything(I lost everything X am financially ruined ncuz of NHS and misdiagnoses .. They send you psychiatry like insane, they force you to take antipsychotics and aggrevate pre existing severe disabilities by 17kg gains, and in my case caused severe, extreme, unwanted bodily disfigurments that will require at least 3 cosmetic surgeries and where as result of ordeal I suffer catastrophic psychiatric injuries and from full time worker I been led to state where I can't make meal for myself
You go privately-psychiatrist assessment, two pain specialists, orthopaedist. Fork out 4,000+ including meds plus ongoing expenses. Turns out you are NOT crazy.
You suffer FIBROMYLAGIA and ADHD and skin lesion is definitely physical concerns. Also one of medications I took in past, in case f iI had theoritically hidden Lyme disease, it should heal all issues too.
And I will also remind, in UK there been story of girl with severe stomach pain. About 6-7 GPs bcuz she was 17yo told her it's anxiety(peer parroting of supporting views/repeating each other without consideration). Girl died months later due cancer.
So yeah. Symptoms can be SAME and disorder different and I believe with current medical quackery BUT also medical fraudsters is best to trust yourself, own gut and have healthy DOSE of sceptism towards alternative medicine as in some cases you deal with CHARLATANE eg. Impostors who kill ppl with cancer/real life disorders needing modern medicine-eg after making false promises of curing disorder with vit C infusions, herbal teas and so on
I am against MISINFORMATION spread but ppl need to understand that modern medicine can make mistakes, and two better seek many drs opinions, three i believe all people need to be given all available in time relevant/science or not science based INFORMATIONS to make own, unforced, informed decisions. Without pressure, suggestions etc. So you do you, I do me.
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I don't understand why I became victim of unprovoked attack for fact I stated people have different issues, and at no point I accused this guy of making or faking things up....amd my post in first place was NOT targeting him
Just for your info Mr who attacked. my ex GP send me over 40x times to psychiatric hospital accusing me of OCD and taking off/dogging out own skin where she did not bother even biopsy or swab. Turned out she herself suffers delusions and Is sick with FDIA mental disorder.
Current GP was patient, he listened what is going on and how 'those plug like wounds' differ from all other wounds ala in depth, in how infection is never ending(reminds of recurring cysts, but without sac wall and appears almost like adhesion to deeper layers). He listened what is coming out of wounds, what I use and how I clean wounds plus looked at pictures I provided of infection with dates and sizes of wound.
He did swab and put me on broader spectrum co amoxiclav 500/125mgwith penicillin. Only started yesterday and is one week course and follow up.
Don't play victim
Hi All!
*I HAVE THE ANSWER - 100%*
I have read these forums countless times over the past year. As the "white plugs" have ran my life, made me feel crazy, and affected me as a parent (anxiety picking up my child from school with wounds on face, going into stores, etc).
The ANSWER: Fungal Infection
How I know:
I learned that my mono reactivated and it stayed active (i believe still is) for many months. It weakened my immune system so much. I developed oral thrush. I began thinking about my diet the past year, a lot of sugar, fed yeast. But nothing I put on these wounds would heal them. The only things that seemed to work were ice or cold air.... makes sense with fungal. Anytime i would put anything wet or a covering, the white would multiple and get more gunky and goey. I started on fluconazole one week ago and the current wound on face has NO WHITE PLUGS ANYMORE. It did last week. Tea tree oil does seem to help some too. I originally thought i was having an allergic reaction to it because my skin became red and flakey but it was the fungus dying.
ANTIFUNGAL CREAMS WORK UNTIL THEY DONT (AND ADD MOISTURE). THIS IS A DEEPER ISSUE. YOU NEED PRESCRIPTION ANTIFUNGAL.
@25years what kind of medical tape do you use on your skin because all my pores are plugged up there are little black and white fibers coming out of my skin. I have seen pictures with people who have demodex mites have those white strands and I've seen fungal infections have the same thing so I don't know if I have a fungal issue or a parasite issue. I've also seen the things I have on people who have morgellions so I just don't know. But I also have a crawling sensation all over me all the time my eyebrows are really bad for some reason. I also have very very slow healing lessions all over the place. If I wipe my hand over my face not really hard to the point dead skin rolls off but I will get these very fine little black and white almost clear fibers all over my hand. I noticed it when this started with my issue one day I bought medicated bar soap that happened to be white and when I rubbed it over my scalp it was literally covered with little black fibers not hairs but thinner like tiny thin short string like fibers. I have no idea what that's all about could that happen with a fungal infection? I've been to several doctors at first it was scabies but all the treatments didn't do anything and some made it worse than I thought maybe demodex but I took long term ivermectin and topical treatment for months with no real improvement. I haven't taken ivermectin in months and it hasn't gotten worse so I'm thinking it might be fungal but I'm not sure. The other doctors I saw thought I was crazy or just picking or on drugs which was very frustrating and refused to even look for more than 30 seconds they rolled their eyes when I asked for a skin sample to be taken to try and figure it out and sent me packing. But it's not like I woke up one day after 40 years and decided it would be a good time to become crazy and pick myself apart and feel a crawling sensation and lesions all over my body. It might be fungal so I just started trying fungal cream and I'm starting a candida detox thinking it might be internal but it's to soon to tell it's only been a few days. I have this black build up around my hair follicles in a lot of places and bio film which seems impossible to get off. I want to just pull all that crap out of my skin because I exfoliate some but the stuff is still in my skin. I get those little black and white fibers coming out around the base of the hair out of the follicle. I bought a little digital microscope awhile back I know sounds a little extreme but I was desperate to get a better look to try and figure out what is going on. But I would like to try the tape thing maybe it will get some of this crap out of my skin to help it to start healing. Because I've noticed the build up ends up making the follicles inflamed or get what looks like folliculitis. These are what the fibers look like from my skin and the lessions. Any info would be appreciated thanks
@25years what kind of medical tape do you use on your skin because all my pores are plugged up there are little black and white fibers coming out of my skin. I have seen pictures with people who have demodex mites have those white strands and I've seen fungal infections have the same thing so I don't know if I have a fungal issue or a parasite issue. I've also seen the things I have on people who have morgellions so I just don't know. But I also have a crawling sensation all over me all the time my eyebrows are really bad for some reason. I also have very very slow healing lessions all over the place. If I wipe my hand over my face not really hard to the point dead skin rolls off but I will get these very fine little black and white almost clear fibers all over my hand. I noticed it when this started with my issue one day I bought medicated bar soap that happened to be white and when I rubbed it over my scalp it was literally covered with little black fibers not hairs but thinner like tiny thin short string like fibers. I have no idea what that's all about could that happen with a fungal infection? I've been to several doctors at first it was scabies but all the treatments didn't do anything and some made it worse than I thought maybe demodex but I took long term ivermectin and topical treatment for months with no real improvement. I haven't taken ivermectin in months and it hasn't gotten worse so I'm thinking it might be fungal but I'm not sure. The other doctors I saw thought I was crazy or just picking or on drugs which was very frustrating and refused to even look for more than 30 seconds they rolled their eyes when I asked for a skin sample to be taken to try and figure it out and sent me packing. But it's not like I woke up one day after 40 years and decided it would be a good time to become crazy and pick myself apart and feel a crawling sensation and lesions all over my body. It might be fungal so I just started trying fungal cream and I'm starting a candida detox thinking it might be internal but it's to soon to tell it's only been a few days. I have this black build up around my hair follicles in a lot of places and bio film which seems impossible to get off. I want to just pull all that crap out of my skin because I exfoliate some but the stuff is still in my skin. I get those little black and white fibers coming out around the base of the hair out of the follicle. I bought a little digital microscope awhile back I know sounds a little extreme but I was desperate to get a better look to try and figure out what is going on. But I would like to try the tape thing maybe it will get some of this crap out of my skin to help it to start healing. Because I've noticed the build up ends up making the follicles inflamed or get what looks like folliculitis. These are what the fibers look like from my skin and the lessions. Any info would be appreciated thanks
- Yes you look like I did for over 25 years! I'm 40 years old and just can't take it anymore! Athletic tape!!!! Re tape and re tape over all your skin, you will see different areas are worst then others by what at residue is on the tape. The trick is dry your skin out as much as possible! I started to peel, as if the top layer of skin has to go and underneath is new skin. Under the wound/ ulcer looking areas are longer strands of hair? Keep doing the tape and you will see what I mean. Once those hairs come out, the wound finally starts to heal. The hair I think is a hair worm, and the wound areas are the nest/ eggs. Also wormwood pills!!!!! I take them faithfullly
@25years what kind of medical tape do you use on your skin because all my pores are plugged up there are little black and white fibers coming out of my skin. I have seen pictures with people who have demodex mites have those white strands and I've seen fungal infections have the same thing so I don't know if I have a fungal issue or a parasite issue. I've also seen the things I have on people who have morgellions so I just don't know. But I also have a crawling sensation all over me all the time my eyebrows are really bad for some reason. I also have very very slow healing lessions all over the place. If I wipe my hand over my face not really hard to the point dead skin rolls off but I will get these very fine little black and white almost clear fibers all over my hand. I noticed it when this started with my issue one day I bought medicated bar soap that happened to be white and when I rubbed it over my scalp it was literally covered with little black fibers not hairs but thinner like tiny thin short string like fibers. I have no idea what that's all about could that happen with a fungal infection? I've been to several doctors at first it was scabies but all the treatments didn't do anything and some made it worse than I thought maybe demodex but I took long term ivermectin and topical treatment for months with no real improvement. I haven't taken ivermectin in months and it hasn't gotten worse so I'm thinking it might be fungal but I'm not sure. The other doctors I saw thought I was crazy or just picking or on drugs which was very frustrating and refused to even look for more than 30 seconds they rolled their eyes when I asked for a skin sample to be taken to try and figure it out and sent me packing. But it's not like I woke up one day after 40 years and decided it would be a good time to become crazy and pick myself apart and feel a crawling sensation and lesions all over my body. It might be fungal so I just started trying fungal cream and I'm starting a candida detox thinking it might be internal but it's to soon to tell it's only been a few days. I have this black build up around my hair follicles in a lot of places and bio film which seems impossible to get off. I want to just pull all that crap out of my skin because I exfoliate some but the stuff is still in my skin. I get those little black and white fibers coming out around the base of the hair out of the follicle. I bought a little digital microscope awhile back I know sounds a little extreme but I was desperate to get a better look to try and figure out what is going on. But I would like to try the tape thing maybe it will get some of this crap out of my skin to help it to start healing. Because I've noticed the build up ends up making the follicles inflamed or get what looks like folliculitis. These are what the fibers look like from my skin and the lessions. Any info would be appreciated thanks
- Yes you look like I did for over 25 years! I'm 40 years old and just can't take it anymore! Athletic tape!!!! Re tape and re tape over all your skin, you will see different areas are worst then others by what at residue is on the tape. The trick is dry your skin out as much as possible! I started to peel, as if the top layer of skin has to go and underneath is new skin. Under the wound/ ulcer looking areas are longer strands of hair? Keep doing the tape and you will see what I mean. Once those hairs come out, the wound finally starts to heal. The hair I think is a hair worm, and the wound areas are the nest/ eggs. Also wormwood pills!!!!! I take them faithfullly
Also, the itch are the hairs under the skin that we can never itch. The sting I think is them bitting us. And the "dirty" "waxy" skin I think is the worms poop and pee. I hate even thinking this is inside me as I'm so scared of bugs. The hairs look like a dot all the way to a long strand. The red ones remind me of fire ants. My skin feels so much lighter! I now have just a few areas I'm working on.
Here are 2 pictures, one of these tiny fiber looking things that you could never ever see in your skin, the other picture is a long strand of hair that came out from under the skin. This is what I mean by a parasite, a hair worm. The ulcer like wounds have these hairs under the skin, I think the plugs are worm nest with yes babies in them, which is why when they are removed - they just come back
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I have been seen twice by plastics team today-they told me my overall problem on my Mostly face and jaw area appears to be clearly associated with multiple infected sebaceous cysts which keeps clearly returning/reoccurring and causing scarring and various other issues...
They said they can;t be certain why it 'distinguishes' self like in such manifestation/area or why exactly it 'looks like that' BUT once it went from 'superficial plugs' into deep wound x 'main plug still being there' and I explained issue(longevity etc and showed other scars) plus showed photos from various states of wound/clearing it BUT they said bcuz it keeps filling itself x leaking-we human touch and try to clean which is ONLY natural-we try to remove infection in Best way. This causes inflammation and no healing-they said they do NOT fault or blame me and it's clear I have been poorly treated/not treated in right ways before BUT they promised-very firmly-in order to make me/help me psychologically set right mindset to 'not pick'/do nothing else-and just take antibiotics- that regardless of wound healing or not-they will fully excise cyst in 3 months
I will I assume get some privilege to take photos or will be given report to share.
They said bcuz cyst like mine is 'regular cyst with wall' that due to infection burst out of its sac x merged itself with 'healthy' surrounding tissue(kind of like what cancer is)-they can;t promise me it will NOT reoccur or that it will not show elsewhere on body/face-which would only makes sense as some ppl have tendency eg. to have recurring health problem and growing new cysts/lipomas etc as those can be chronic-But with excising it and antibiotic I increase chances of getting rid of that particular are being affected-eg cyst may reoccur but not as soon
Hello,
I have been struggling with this exact same issue for 11 years, and having the same terrible experiences with dermatologists and doctors. In the past few months, I feel that I have finally made significant progress on treating this condition and want to share what I have learned. This is my personal experience and it may help some others. I am not suggesting it is the case for everyone.
This started in my late 30's, and at first I thought it was some kind of persistent adult acne. I had never really had any skin problems up until that point aside from an occasional hormonal blemish here and there.
All of the acne treatments I tried made it worse and I had sores that wouldn't heal for months with the white plugs etc.
Any doctors/derms I went to would tell me that I was causing it by picking at my face and they would give me antibiotics, spironalactone, tretinoin, etc. Those things seemed to either make it worse or just not work. And being constantly blamed for something I wasn't responsible for caused a lot of mental anguish. I won't deny that I picked at my face at times, because I would have painful spreading sores, with weird white plugs that wouldn't heal for months--but I knew I was not the cause of these lesions.
This went on for years. I would have repeated flare ups and would desperately try remedies for fungus, bacteria, etc. I literally tried everything. I even drank potassium iodide solution for a month-yuck. Sometimes there were small improvements, but no lasting change.
This past couple of years have been especially bad, and I thought that I had an autoimmune disease (it runs in my family and I had some other symptoms). I had to fight to see a rheumatologist, but I insisted and my doctor finally gave in. Fortunately, I got a good one who was very compassionate. She ordered all of the tests you can imagine. It turns out I did not have an autoimmune disease, but in that process, they gave me some tacrolimus ointment to use and it actually worked.
This condition, at least for me, turned out to be eczema. And the only reason I finally got diagnosed with it after a decade is that in addition to the weird sores, I also started getting patches that presented like typical eczema, and I also started getting it on my hands (it looks different on my hands). I work outside in Colorado, which is very dry and can be very harsh on the skin. These issues also started at a time when I was undergoing a lot of stress, so I think that contributed to the sudden development. After my diagnosis, I realized in retrospect how so many of the treatments that I was trying were actually drying out my skin even more and exacerbating the issue (tretinoin, benzoyl peroxide, etc)
I think that because the previous presentation was atypical, they just blamed me and threw some antibiotics at me instead of really investigating the cause. So, with the new developments, the derms couldn't dismiss me anymore. However, that didn't stop them from still treating me badly and acting like I was making it all up. Which was crazy because they finally acknowledged it was atopic dermatitus, but then were still really defensive about not treating me correctly for over a decade and giving me medications that made my condition worse. They still were managing to blame me somehow? This experience with dermatologists has been mind boggling. Are they all arrogant, unhelpful jerks? In my experience, yes. So many times they dismissed me outright and acted like I was a crazy person. They would spend like 2 minutes with me and wouldn't do any real exam or biopsy, etc. So, I feel for all of you also going through this. I know how frustrating & demoralizing it is to be treated like that.
Ok, now some advice about the lesions. I know that sometimes these white plugs get big and protrude through the skin, and can inhibit wound healing. They act like a splinter/foreign body in some cases. However, these are natural structures in your skin and you should be very judicious about the ones you pluck out. Your skin is having an inflammatory response and is behaving abnormally, but plucking all the white plugs out can cause greater inflammation and scarring. I know that some of them have to come out, but just be careful about it and don't get compulsive. When in doubt, leave them alone and put a hydrocolloid bandage on along with the tacrolimus ointment. Many times they will recede back into the matrix of your skin as the inflammation subsides.
Ok, that's my story. Again, I don't know if it will help anyone else, but I am so relieved to finally have a grip on this confounding condition. The tacrolimus helped me so much. I just wish they would've given it to me 11 years ago before I had all of these scars on my face. I know there's other meds for eczema like dupilumab, which may also help, but I haven't yet tried them.
Best wishes to everyone. I know how adversely this affects your quality of life, and the medical community is not any help.
I think it is Histamine!
I have a new phone and miss all my photos. The picture is of one of my ulcers healing.
The plugs are inflamed follicles and hair bulbs.
The cause is an overreaction from the immune system.
I also had no help from dermatologist in my country.
I got a diagnoses of "pyoderma gangrenosum" while on my travels, but the dermatologist in my home country would not accept the results despite even having laboratory tests.
I had large necrosing ulcers because of these "plugs". The disease is characterized by a high neutrophils (type of white blood cell) infiltration. But i could not find the cause without a doctor to help me. As the disease can have many causes.
I am on the Autistic spectrum and hypersensitive. A rough cotton T-shirt will make my skin burn.
I had this a lot worse when stressed.
But the answer was there and simple. Histamine.
This may not be the cause of all your cases, but it is in mine.
Finally free from these after 6 years of intense pain.
I hope this information is useful for at least some of you?
I would love if you try antihistamines that you share if they help you to.
Also the plugs are your body trying to heal and are definitely not parasites.
This sore looks like it's healing in this pic. Under the skin is where these hairs are coming out