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What did your dermatologist say it is?
I have not been able to hear a diagnosis from anyone yet. I went to one highly rated derm twice and he said usually random scarring is sign of an autoimmune disorder (in his experience), but I was tested for that and it came back negative. I brought up something spread across the internet and on Acne.org called AMVC (Atrophia maculosa varioliformis cutis), which is supposedly extremely rare skin disease, but it matched to the tee what was happening to my face, but this derm said he'd never heard of it but he looked it up on his phone and said he highly doubted I would have this. I had blood drawn on this first visit just so he could have a lab test done to see if I had any autoimmune disorder. He told me to just give this thing time (he's put me on anti-acne antibiotics for the time being) but it's frustrating because this issue worsens every week. I've stopped checking my face because it's just depressing but I have checked my knees and thigh area and the damage is continuous and consistent with what I've experienced on my face.
In addition, 3 weeks or so after I noticed this random scarring, I started experiencing random twitching and bug/crawling and prickling sensations all over. It started in my legs and spread to my face. I was paranoid that perhaps bugs or some parasite was causing this but this particular derm ruled these out from his experience and from the way my scarring looked. He prescribed me (this was a second visit a month after my first) Ivermectin just in case to kill anything I may have, but a physical skin scraping or the likes was never done. I took the two doses already but have not seen any ceasing of these symptoms.
I'm seeing another derm on Wednesday and then on the 25th I will be going back to this original dermatology office to get a second opinion from another derm who practices there.
I really don't want to subscribe to such belief that I could possibly have a rare skin scarring disease, but my line of hope has run too thin. I've read quite a few accounts of people who have experienced the exact same thing as me (random indented linear scars, prickling sensations on the skin) but were never able to find an end to such horror. Most have run to several derms only to be shooed away, be told the issue is minor, or like me, been given no diagnosis. I've heard of a few lucky people who had skin scrapings done and their derm found that they had an excess of demodex mites....afterwards they were given a few meds which stopped their skin problems for good. But IDK....I've read that aside from scabies, any type of bug or mite can't do physical damage to the skin (e.g. Dents). And likes said I've already taken an antibiotic for such bugs so...it just is very depressing.
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Am I delusional or is this really something?
