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.