PLEASE help! I know the cause, sort of. Sort of wondered if this maybe needs a trigger warning in title due to cause, but it is not abt eating disordered behaviour. I know there is an ED subforum but this is abt an effect rather than the ED per se, so I hope okay to post here?
So yeah, I am an idiot and once again in a binge/purge cycle. Have seen gp after a particularly horrible day of it and am now on a higher dose of fluoxetine and have had bloods taken. But this hideous side effect has never happened and it is really quite disturbing!
When I woke up the morning after the first day I lapsed back into this (a few weeks ago), there was a small rough dry patch just up from the corner of my mouth, and my lips felt (but didn't look) swollen. It has gradually got worse and worse and became an area of dry/itchy/peeling skin from the corner of my mouth going up to my cheek, a bit bigger than a £2 coin. Have been slathering w E45 and tea tree alternately, with little effect. Luckily I have a job where I can mostly work from home. Well, sort of luckily, I wouldn't binge/purge so much if I had to be in work all day, but at least nobody has to see my face, although due to other commitments I do have to leave the house!
Yesterday was a particularly bad day of binge/purging. Last night my bastarding face hurt so bad I couldn't sleep and I could feel the skin was weeping. It was hideous. Had to take neurofen to sleep in the end. This morning, oh-my-god I look HIDEOUS. Half my top lip is noticeably swollen, extending to my cheek, and all of this and more is red, yucky flaky weepyness. I really do look totally and utterly grotesque! PLEASE help, I know I am a total idiot but I really need urgent sort-my-face-out advice.
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HELP! face half swollen, skin red and horrible, need to make this go away
thatcoldfeeling · 25/03/2016 07:42
You can't have caused this by your ED so please don't be ashamed to seek medical help.
It's not related to your behaviours.
It sounds like you may need an antibiotic or something, it could be impetigo, or some other sort of skin infection.
I can't diagnose obviously and wouldn't be qualified to even if I could see it, but I really think you're mistaken in assuming this is your fault.
Please make an appointment today, or if you can't, see a pharmacist urgently.
Thanks both. Reason it seems ED related is that it gets worse with every day I b/p, I have had some days when I haven't and on those days it doesn't get worse. Also have cracks in corners of my mouth from purging. Fuck, I hope I haven't given myself cellulitis in my face 
Am sitting with ice cube melting on it to try and reduce swelling, face so hot and numb I can't even feel it.
Have googled impetigo prev, don't think it is that though as it didn't come on in same way.
Better find out where a chemist I open I spose, and inflict my hideous face on the outside world
You do really need to get it looked at today, the fact it's hot points to their being an infection.
I would try and get an ooh appt, as I think you'll need antibiotics.
Don't worry about what anyone thinks, just get yourself sorted
Oh bollocks, think you are poss right though. Googling for our OOH and feeling a first rate idiot 
Oh wow Orange, I never knew that could happen, will mention to dr 
Have spoken with OOH triage and waiting now on Dr call back.
Oh god I just caught sight of myself, it looks so awful Feeling a but b/p hungover too. What a bloody miserable start to the day.
A friend just txtd asking if dd wld like to see her dd tmrw. She must be thinking wtf as I just sent a garbled reply abt looking as I I have been punched. I don't think I can stand seeing anyone, or more specifically, someone seeing me
You MUST seek medical help urgently. Today.
None of us here can diagnose you, but you may well need antibiotics, and quickly.
Oh bloody hell, it does look like that :( although it has been getting gradually worse so may not be. But it has really got scarily worse overnight. Fuck. OOH gp will be calling me within 6 hours. Am feeling a bit panicked
Don't panic 
You've taken steps to be seen.
When they call back, don't minimise.
Insist that you need to be seen face to face.
Good luck.
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Good to hear you are getting antibiotics.
If it continuous to spread over the next 24 to 48hrs or you start feeling unwell in yourself (fever, nausea, general misery) contact OOH again.
Angular cheilitis can be due to Vit b deficiency or a yeast and may have started the whole thing off, but in itself would not cause swelling etc.
Hope you feel/look better soon 
Got flucloxacillin. Wanted to hurry to avoid being seen but due to a ridiculous series of screw ups, ended up waiting there an hour - mostly on verge of tears. Also waiting was a care home member of staff who needed an urgent prescription for a very unwell resident. Abysmal service.
Home and feeling sorry for self, wondering how best to hide from the world and whether I can purge w some kind of stomach pump to avoid making my mouth worse
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