Need Help! Not Sure What It Is or What To Do!

Those painful bumps are caused by parasites. DO NOT LET ANYONE CONVINCE YOUR OTHERWISE …and believe me, they’ll try (ill-informed dermatologists included). The parasites are called Demodex mites. That plug is the adult stage of the mite. Usually, humans are only inhabited by Demodex folliculorum and Demodex brevis. I suspect you’re describing the Demodex injai, the "large-body" Demodex. You'll want to get rid of these things ASAP and with extreme prejudice. Your skin improves and then erupts again because of their life cycle. I wound up with an all-out infestation because it took me 7 years, 5 useless dermatologists, and 2 ill-equipped primary care physicians to figure it out. One dermatologist accused me of making the sores myself and suggested I take an anti-depressant. But, don't get me started on that... I even had an elevated IGg because my system was so irritated by them. Anyway, back to the mites …The adults move around on your skin (usually at night because they don’t like light) and give you an itchy, crawly sensation. After they mate, the pregnant female emerges to lays eggs. When the pregnant female comes out, it looks kind of like a regular pimple. But, no puss comes out it-only fluid- and it gets red and irritated if you mess with it. The eggs she lays around the area where she emerged, that look kind of like "spindles." They’re down inside your skin but have little white hairs sticking out of your pores. Those hairs get a little thicker and will sometimes fall out as the egg evolves into an adult mite. Don’t bother pulling them out. The hairs will simply detach and the mite will stay in your pore. The adult mites are NOTHING NICE. They have, what I call venom (for lack of a better word), that causes a sever immune response. If you mess with them, they create this clear fluid that makes a hole in your skin. If you persist, they will make you bleed profusely. I think that stuff is an anti-coagulant too! After you lose the battle (and you will), your skin feels like it's on FIRE. Depending upon how much you messed with them, you'll either have a sore spot that won't heal or a plasticky quasi-scab looking thing …on top of a sore that won’t heal. If you lift up the plasticky scab, you can see the adult mites attached to the underside of it. I say that to say this: DON’T BOTHER MESSING WITH THEM. You will not get them out without putting a deep hole in your skin. They just dig down deeper if you try to pull them out with tweezers. The immune response will make a real mess of your face. You cannot kill the adult Demodex with creams because they move down into your pores beyond the reach of topical miticides. You cannot kill adult Demodex with ingested miticides because they have a hard outer shell that protects them from absorbing the chemicals. If you pinch one of those white plugs really hard with some tweezers you can hear it crunch. (I even tried applying a tiny bit of RAID …didn’t work.) I got rid of the MF’ers with 3 things: (1) Ivermectin, (2) Permethrin SFR, and (3) sulfur paste (all of which I found at the local feed store for animals). First: Use Ivermectin to kill the mid-stage mites. I used the equine version. It’s a paste with 1.87% Ivermectin. (DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK. IVERMECTIN DOSES ARE DETERMINED BY WEIGHT. I SIMPLY USED THE APPROPRIATE AMOUNT OF PASTE FOR MY WEIGHT. I HAD NO PROBLEMS AT ALL, BUT BE CAREFUL). Within 6-8 hours of your first dose of Ivermectin, you'll see the mites pushing out of your pores IN DROVES. Because it only kills the mid-stage mites (not eggs or adults), you’ll need to take Ivermectin once a week, for 4-6 weeks. When you take the Ivermectin, change your bed sheets every night, for at least three nights. Also, buy a few extra pillow cases so you can have a newly washed pillow case every night for at least four weeks. I STRONGLY suggest this measure because the mites wreaked havoc on my scalp. My hair has not grown for more than 3 years. You may want to use Selson Blue shampoo for 4 to 6 weeks, just in case. Second: Use Permethrin SFR, which is 38.6 % Permethrin, to kill the eggs. Dilute it in a spray bottle and spray EVERYTHING in your house, including mattresses, couches, carpets, etc. …EVERYTHING. Then, vacuum really good, and spray EVERYTHING again. Buy new pillows too. Wash ALL CLOTHING and LINENS in hot water. Put them in the dryer on “high heat.” I even lightly sprayed the Permethrin solution on the dried laundry, and the replaced bed sheets. Permethren is not really toxic to humans, and it’s odorless once it dries (PLEASE READ THE PACKAGING THOROUGLY). WHILE I DON’T RECOMMEND THIS: I poured ¾ cup of the Permethrin SFR in my bath water. After soaking for a short time, there were so many eggs (with the white hairs) that my bath water had a film on it. I only did this because I had a full-on infestation. Third: Apply the sulfur paste all over your body. It’s a little tricky to apply, so I suggest wearing gloves. Also, it’s really thick and has a strong smell. I used Pierce’s All Purpose Nu-Stock. I had to mix the paste with baby oil to get it to spread. You’re supposed to wear it, kind of like calamine lotion, for 3 days straight. Then re-apply, on top of the first application, and wear for another 3 days. The objective is to keep the adult mites from mating and laying new eggs. I realize this is a lot. But, BELIEVE ME, you do not want to be infested with these things. This has been a 7-year nightmare for me …finally coming to an end.

Google demodicosis human photos

You have explained exactly what i've been experiencing for the better part of 10 years. It all started when I burned myself, doing a at home Nair hair removal and immediately after, did a facial steam. It must have overdone it because 2 days later my skin flared up in boils and large patches, and it was never treated well, even though I was diagnosed with 2nd degree chemical burns. I was given antibiotics and decided to wear these scar patches to cover them so I could at least go to work. I was living in NY and traveling on the train was mortifying, not to mention I got fired, the company thought I was going weird. The skin would get hot and gooey and oozy under the patches all day, but I was too embarrassed to let the sores show, and they couldn't be covered ...needless to say, it set teh perfect stage i THINK, for an infestation that was deeply set in my pores. I remember when it first hapepned, I tried to pull them out, the male ones i THINK, and maybe it would break a little off the top, then they'd burrow right into the skin deeper, and they got lost there, and recreated and the cycles were so deep in the glands, because the skin was still healing, that a few years of ok skin, where the top part healed superficially, and i WORE lots of makeup, then three years later, it's like holy hell, eruptions of sores, that would open up, hurt really badly, and then I'd pick at it thinking it was a zit, but it would just break the skin, and nothing would come out. I'd take a tweezer to my skin, and i LITERALLY have indentations and holes that you could have put your pinky finger into at one time. I have waged war on these fuckers and the people close to me knowing that i've had issues with depression would think I was hurting myself on purpose.Like nobody, dermatologists, family really understood and it's too disghusting and embarrassing to actually ever let anyone see you go at your face like that. It took some years for the skin to shed so that those deeply laid ones could come closer enough to the surface (or their hundreth millionth ancestors..since these things respawn so quickly, but I would find these like patches where there were just what felt like hundreds of white plugs, that if i wasnt careful enough, would rip and no pop out if not pulled at the right angle and tool. They would grab at the skin so hard, like sometimes i'd pray and pull them out, I would find a like a motherload of just a white bulbus area, that when you pulled it out, blood would just shoot out, like it had been trapped for so long or something behind this plug, and you could even feel the pore like break, then i'd finally feel the pore tighten, with it's first fresh breath of air in a decade...i've been tearing up my face digging these things out for years. I have the worse surface and I'm still suffering with infestation sites. I've just ordered some sulfur based demodex solution forma doctor in China. I found out when I was pregnant with my son, just l year and 1/2 ago that I have a thyroid problem, where i'm not producing enough, which is essentially an immunity disorder, so I have a lowered immunity, and i have a family history of diabetes, nad I honestly dont'eat well, because i'VE basically spent so much time being a hermit, having to hide form the world. I was once active and a singer doing shows, but it got so bad, I dropped out of school and stopped seeing people in my network. This has really destroyed my life and i'm so scared for my little boy, he's so pure. I don;t want anything to happen to him. I am doing what i can in terms of making health changes and also I do wash my face and cleanse, and exfoliate daily, and change sheets, and such things. Just wanted to share my story

I've dealt with these thing for 11years now. At first on my face - my nose,chin,area where my ear attaches to my facial area. I've took tweezers to my face and have a lot of scaring, but nothing compared to both of my upper arms and down to the bend in them. Somehow they left my face completely and moved to my arms and my butt, one side of it anyways. They started with a itchy bump that made an bodd scab,when I accidently rubbed it off, yes, rubbed it, it was hot out and I was sweating. The scabs are NOT the normal scabs our bodies make!. But, when it was off i felt a liquid running down my chin, I took out my powder compact with mirror and csaw a mlky and sticky feeling then pus running down my chn. And there was a HOLE can my flesh!. It was the width of scab and the size of a 2 lead pencil's eraser!!. Everyone of them that came up was that way. (WHEN THE MITE IS FIRST ENTERING A PORE,IT WILL HAPPEN THIS WAY). Afterwards its never ending war of pulling them out over and over and over!. For the past 10 YEARS and about 8 months, I thought it was some type acne from hell!. Now I actually wish it cwas acne from hell!. At cleat it could be gotten rid of. I honestly think once infected there is just no way to get rid of these bugs!. I have started putting white nettle conditioner on the sores it kills them or maybe they just dont like it, they rise up out of my pores a tiny bit then I use the small nail clippers to grasp them and slowly and gently work the mite back and forth till it seems to be letting go then I pull quickly and forcfullly upwards. Sometimes when you see them seeming to lay length wise they're dead and got wound up to tightly with the hairs they attached themselves to. Also at times I've pulled on them only to have tyhee mite along with hairs its attached to rip out sideways. I could feel and afterwards see the sideways lines of blood forming in my raw flesh that I'd been digging around in trying to force them out. Hydrogen peroxide WILL kill the ADULTS but not the other stages. It will also cause a lot of painfull rashes on your surrounding skin when it runs down the skin. So there's just no real cure for us, that I'M aware of.

Yes you are absolutely right about everything. Ivermectin and sulphur, and maintaining with a tea tree oil and neem facewash helps. Using paraben free products and flouride free toothpaste also helps. Not surevif these things feed the nasty disgusting parasites or irritates the skin creating more food for them but it definitely helped me.

Has anyone had any luck with Cliradex eyelid and face wipes or Ungex? The websites have very promising testimonials. My first noticeable skin mite symptom was dry irritated eyes.. that I have seen many eye doctors about complaining to them that I felt like there was something in my eyes. After years of dealing with this my right lower eyelid started twitching like a quiver. It twitches non stop day and night. Now my eye doctors are suggesting botox as a treatment but I think its mite related activity near and in my eyes and I want to solve it not cover it up. I tried Cliradex eyelid wipes over past few days and it seems to stop the quiver for hours after use, I hope this will work but I also just ordered Ungex from Australia on Amazon it is very expensive but I am so desperate.

I am shocked to read this! I knew that some fomr of parasite (little arachnids) were living in my pores, but had no idea of how they multiplied and colonized us!!
I may have this in a mild form, how do you know for sure this is it? Sometimes I'd dig a hole around the "hard little intruder" and then push around it and it would pop out (I coild almost hear it pop). But I never saw or felt anything moving. How to know for sure...?
And antibiotics won't work at all? Roaccutan?
Tetracycline?
Years of acne and so much new info I am learning here...!

I also need help. I can't imagine living with this for 7 or 10 years . I feel I have health issues. I mean they act like scabies but since permithryn didn't work they ruled it out . I may not have that because I can see with my eyes. . I wish I could get a response because I get really depressed it would help me so much if I had a support team. I have on scalp and private area and my skin was getting better but I started using sauna infrared daily and a sauna blanket at night and that has helped me not to take 3-4 baths. But it has taken them to a tiny stage and that stage is vicious. It's so light they fly in air like dust mites. And they get in eyes ears nose. I feel worse than I did when they were black and biting harder. Theseus embed in my hands face then cause extreme itching and I'm sure they will get bigger if allowed. Please someone who has had any amount of success reach out to me .

I also need help. I can't imagine living with this for 7 or 10 years . I feel I have health issues. I mean they act like scabies but since permithryn didn't work they ruled it out . I may not have that because I can see with my eyes. . I wish I could get a response because I get really depressed it would help me so much if I had a support team. I have on scalp and private area and my skin was getting better but I started using sauna infrared daily and a sauna blanket at night and that has helped me not to take 3-4 baths. But it has taken them to a tiny stage and that stage is vicious. It's so light they fly in air like dust mites. And they get in eyes ears nose. I feel worse than I did when they were black and biting harder. Theseus embed in my hands face then cause extreme itching and I'm sure they will get bigger if allowed. Please someone who has had any amount of success reach out to me .