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Warning: sorry, this post is very graphic, please DON'T READ if you're easily triggered! I'm prone to hormonal acne, I usually pick at my face (especially blemishes on cheeks and chin) and dig out ingrown hair from in between my eyebrows.
As a result my face is often swollen and red, I have fresh wounds, scabs, plus many red / brown spots and scars.
So yeah, basically I look like sh*t most of the time, I guess if only I'd manage to really STOP picking for like 2 weeks, my skin will probably clear up and look even better, but I'm still working on this goal.
Anyway, lately all the blemishes I'm getting are some very weird small spots around my smile lines, jaw and in between eyebrows. They don't hurt and don't seem to go away on their own. If I manage to squeeze them usually they just grow back after a while, over and over again. They look VERY deep, like whiteheads under the surface of the skin. I'm sure they're not milia, cause milia are very close to the surface, while these spots are under layers of skin. The skin over them isn't smooth, they look slightly bumpy, which of course makes me crazy! When I squeeze them, sometimes they get out easily: the content is white and very runny, almost liquid, and exits from many pores nearby. Other times I have to take my tweezers and dig them out, which is very hard because they're so deep rooted! These ones look more solid, like a white embedded core of sebum or something. I didn't get these things 1 year ago, what in earth could they be?! Cysts? Clogged pores? Hair follicles? Underground scar tissue? Collagen? Do you get them too? My dermatologist said she didn't know and to use Differin cause they're "just pimples". ---> totally NOT! Pimples, blackheads and whiteheads look different and surface after a while. I'm afraid I might have damaged my pores so much they've scarred all over, so the sebum stays trapped inside. :( I feel sad and hopeless, like I've mutilated myself. If only this could be a wakeup call for me to never pick again!!
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I have moved to the tip of my nose now. Still using the dull side of the Swiss Army knife blade. If I put the tip right at the edge of a blackhead..out it comes, but sometimes I find more. Like what appears to be a blackhead, but white, and just below the surface. So I scrape a bit of skin away to expose it. then I leave it alone till the next day. Then press a little harder. Eventually the white center is exposed and then I can start digging. But I always leave it to rest a day in between. Then pick off the scab and dig a little deeper, till eventually I can isolate these white things. They are all the same: ivory white, solid and deep. I thought I had left it alone for a few days, but tonight I was able to press out more, and then of course I had to pick into it again. These things can go 1/4" deep!
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I have also considered the old white head theory but mine are mostly clusters with some random ones.
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It's the sack of whatever there called from the dead cells and follicles that a blackhead has collected over time I guess and is actually hiding under neath the dead skin and crap and it it
can spread around your face but it may still be from one main blackhead even though there are several even maybe a dozen blackheads in the general area once you have scraped all of the hard dried oil and shit off the top of the blackhead in charge you can gently push all of those seed looking things and there not pimples if your careful they will come out in one dark red disguting looking sack kinda looks like a soft sack of little guts I guess ? But it's nothing like a normal blackhead butthe shit yoyour seeing on your skin is exactly what comes out . If it doesn't come out in one sack then its very painful to remove but you just keep scraping and scraping that shit out until it stops and that's usually when it stops bleeding and when you finally get to the actual blackhead under all the layers you'll know because it will start bleeding like you just hit an arterie . But if you give it about a minute and don't wope the blood because it's actually the sack I mentioned earlier. After what seems like forever you'll see a drop of blood pop up and run down your cheek then the sack will be free from the whole and if your lucky its only one . I have pulled about six out of one whole and in a pile it could probably be about the size of a small gumball I guess but it's mushy shit . And when it dries it's as hard as wood ! Lol so this is what I think you guys might be talking about I never had anything like it before that I noticed but I did have some spots on my face that I thought were scars but actually are embedded blackheads and the scarring I thought I had is all the dead skin ftom the original blackhead that has spread . So im still working on my face I started having this crap pop up after I was working in an attic for a couple days last summer . I was replacing some duct work and it was hot and the insullation and fine dust vkt into my pores on my face and a little on my arms . I just noticed one on my left forearm a couple days ago because it had the same spongie like look as my face does where the bumps are. But anyways I did have insullation in my face and my face did break out because the it was coming out of my skin almost felt like a sticker in your finger or splinter so after that mess I finally thought i was done with the face thing , but that's when I first started getting like a swollen bump on my face almost like a bad spider bite or a punch lol one on my cheekbone below my left eye another time my lip where I had a scar from an old accident under my lip where I had bitten my jaw when I was younger. Well what im getting at is that these spots were perfect places for a blackhead to hide and grow with out really being noticed or maybe just rapidly growing over the year . But those spots had really big and multiple blackeads one above my eye and under my lip are still there but almost gotten rid of but still haven't got to the main blackhead lol I noticed that when im dehydrated or don't drink enough waterlike eeveryone says is when I notice all the bumps but I also have lost about twenty pounds and a lot of inches on my face and everywhere else, so I think that's one of the reasons I even noticed mine . Well anyways hopefully all of yours are just small and easy to rectify . I let my skin heal up and it would look fine for a month or so but then I would start breaking out just in little clusters which were actually the
Sacks of seeds that I wasn't aware of at the time so I thought it was from the fiberglass dust or whatever. Finally read something online about a month ago and knew that's wwwtttfff I had and slowly but surely am getting rid of it . Okay so here's my method of removing these things. Dermitoligist I didn't bother I did go to a doctor and was prescriced a couple things that did
Help my face at the time but actually the cream I was using brought out the first couple of blackheads because it peeled a good couple of layers of skin off my face . So that may work for a lot of you . But yoh can't use that cream for more than ten days or something like that so and it was prescription or I would have tried lol but my solution was callous remover :-P it removes dead skin and that's what i had in several areas of my face and the blackheads are under it. Plus it soaks up and draws the oil and crap breaking the blackhead up . Now don't try this yourselfs because it can burn like hell if you get it on your not dead skin and im sure it's got a million other reasons. But there's no other way to get rid of them some even have to be cut out which is kinda what im doing I guess but slower . So if you have these bumps and your not gonna go all in to get rid of them then I would just leave them be and try using something that has that one acid in it uhm sylicic ? Something like that but it will control those bumps I think but won't actually get rid of the blackheads at the root of the problem. Well hope this helps someone out there and sorry about the length lol I was kinda getting a little worried myself because i couldn't find anything about it for a long time and when I get worried about something then y'all definitely should start :-P good luck and good health and testosterone is like a super food for the things I didn't know this until recently bit that's maybe why mine came along so quick I started taking that P6 testosterone booster in December and have had face issues since . Lol LATER
I am so glad I found these posts. I have this same problem. However, after reading all the posts, I still have no idea what this is! When I first started researching this Morgellons Disease seemed to fit the profile. Please, someone help with our diagnosis!
I don't the answer, but thanks for your post, now I don't feel so weird for having this gross obsession
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