I found this site when I was googling my skin symptoms. I happened to find a thread that represented what is going on with my skin.
This is that thread and there is a picture sort of resembling my skin problems.
https://http://forums.owndoc.com/dermarolling-microneedling/Newbie-with-severe-skin-issues-please-can-I-have-some-adviceJust like that person wrote, my skin is also deteriorating rapidly and I don't know what to do for it anymore.
My skin is porous, has lines and dents forming on it (perhaps fissures if that makes sense), I feel pricking and slight pangs of pain at times, crawling as if something is running through hairs on my face, eyebrow hairs falling out constantly, tiny tiny bumps sometimes show up that itch (they are so tiny that barely noticeable), I have permanent pink patches of skin on my front cheek area and the sides of my face. The pinkness is not uniform and quite irregular. There used to be lots of small bumps all over my face which was not like any regular acne I've had before and the tiny bumps were only visible in good lighting and angles and more noticeable with make-up on, but now I don't have as many bumps any more or they have flattened out more. Whenever I try to use moisturizer, my skin gets worse and I see more lines and dents forming on my skin. My skin can get extremely oily and I had noticed before my skin problems began, that my skin was getting oilier. My skin appears to have an orange peel texture and the resiliency of cottage cheese in certain areas. I have noticed a slight increased hair growth on my face. I itch a lot under my chin and usually have bumps there. I am only 25 and don't understand what is going on. I have been dealing with facial problems for a full year now.
Here's my background story:
I started out with severely red patches on my skin on my front cheeks and temples. It was horrendous and bumpy inflamed texture in those areas. My forehead didn't have any problems yet but slowly eventually my forehead ended up with the strange texture as well but not the pink skin. And I had all the symptoms slowly arrive that I have described above.
The red skin all faded from dramatic red to pink to where I'm at now which is a light pink. I am not sure if anything I used faded it or it faded on it's own. I am not sure if it was from something I tried....the only thing I was trying at the time when I started seeing any improvement was ketoconazole shampoo on my face and neosorin ointment . When I look close in the mirror I see tons of tiny red dots on my skin or pink/red skin color. I don't know if it's damaged blood vessels or what. My skin has been permanently pink/red in these particular areas. It looks worse when I flush of course but then when my flushing goes down, the pink stains of skin remain. My skin also became very oily.
Dermatologist took a skin scraping because I thought I had a fungal problem but found demodex mites and said he found no evidence of fungus. He called it demodex folliculorum. I've had intense crawling sensations on my face at times and it has moved on to my scalp and body. I didn't think you could FEEL demodex.....can you?? I've had some blood tests done and I've tried to figure out what I could be allergic to and nothing makes sense.
I've moved on to feeling itchy on my legs, crawling sensations on my body, having strange red bumps sometimes show up on my body and itch and then disappear rather quickly, hive like pale bumps show up in the same spots usually on my body which also disappear quickly in untouched, and recently I have been itching on my foot and developed tiny pink patches in two spots where I scratched and some tiny bumps formed in the area. The derm said it looks like nummular eczema.
Anyway, two things seemed to help the redness on my face. Permethrin helped a little. Demodex Solutions Xin Fumangling helps a bit I think and the nightly Zhoungzhoung cream from Demodex Solutions helped with the texture of my skin but I am not sure I'm seeing any improvement with redness with this.
Things that made it worse:
Finacea
Metrogel
And then I tried sodium sulfecetamide and sulfur 5% wash which seemed to almost immediately help my skin and remove redness. It was a little surprising. I wasn't sure if it was just me. But when I continued using it for a few days, bumps and pinkness decreased a lot. I had to stop though because it was overdrying my skin and making it immensely tight and extremely oily perhaps because I was making my skin more dry so my skin was trying to make even more oil because of it. And I was starting to developing tiny itchy bumps.
My most recent symptoms are now involving my body feeling odd as if my nerves or veins or something are giving off pricking sensations or pangs of slight pain. I have been noticing more blue veins on my legs or maybe I just never noticed them before. I had noticed in the past couple months that I had little red cherry angiomas forming on my chest and more on my arms (I have had super tiny cherry angiomas for a while. I had noticed them two or three years ago). Also, I developed keratosis pilaris 3 years ago on the back of my thighs and it has cleared up a bit since then, but I still have bumps here and there and I have recently discovered that I have keratosis pilaris on my arms. It's very slight and I am unsure if I just never noticed them before. I used Lac Hydrin lotion and Clindamycin Phosphate for my keratosis pilaris for a short while and I think that helped clear it up a bit.
Before all my facial problems started,
I had recently ended a long term relationship, had gotten sick and used a ZPack- antibiotic pills a month before facial problems began, had gone to get a spray tan three months before problems began and had spray tans before as well as went to tanning bed about 12 times within the last 3 years, used Bare Miinerals make-up for a couple months before problems began (which I noticed made my face itch and I had started noticing some bumps forming on the sides of my face when I was using it during the winter months along with dry skin), had not moisturized my face much in a year, had used steroid ointment on face a year before for abrasions, had used steroid ointment when i already started having pink/red skin forming on my face in the patches I have now and then stopped because it made my redness worse and irritated my skin, had acid reflux problems on and off the past 4 years, 5 years ago I started an all carb eating habit (mainly pasta) and no meat whatsoever and still do not eat meat but try to cut down on carbs now, and before my pink skin patches turned into a red havoc on my face, I tried sun tanning to get rid of it which didn't really help and also went and had my first and only facial with a glycolic acid component to it I'm not sure if it was a peel or what), and lastly, I had tried DUAC acne gel on my face in a few various spots and an hour after application, my skin was lighter in the areas I had applied the duac and it sort of spanned out a littler further than where I applied....it was the strangest thing and I thought it would go away but it never did and in fact a lightened area on the side of my face still is there between the pink on my cheeks and the pink on my temples....after that, I started noticing gradually that my skin seemed pinker around these lightened areas and then eventually my skin became full blown red and much worse.
I'd like to add that I have been on doxyciline antibiotic for two weeks but had to stop because it was giving me anxiety attacks. I think the bumps on my face went down from it's use. I am unsure if the dents and lines and porous skin began after this antibiotic or not....I do not remember. I noted that tea tree oil helped a lot with the bumps I had. Metrogel made me pinker. Finacea irritated my skin and made it pinker.
Here are photos of my skin when it was somewhat at its worst but starting to die down.
https://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0121.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0122.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0101.jpgAnd here is what my skin looks like with make-up and you can see the strange texture and lines and fissures of my skin.
https://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=photo5.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=photo1.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=photo6new.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_2704.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_2620.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_2619.jpgAnd here is my skin now, without make-up on:
https://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0908.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0909.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0912.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0914.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0916.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0917.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0919.jpghttps://http://s1111.photobucket.com/albums/h479/birdsing/?action=view¤t=IMG_0938.jpgPlease any thoughts, opinions would be greatly appreciated. I have been to many dermatologists and to the doctor and just don't know where to turn anymore. My skin bothers me and hurts more when I wear make-up but I have to or I would frighten people. I am nervous this strange texture is spreading on my face and forehead and soon I will have more strange lines, fissures, and indents everywhere. Please help!
Topic: Newbie with HORRIBLE SKIN DETERIORATING! Lines, dents, pricking, porous pink skin and orange peel texture. (Read 61363 times)
