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Massive sodding spots

30 replies

Catrin · 06/01/2014 22:16

HELP! I keep getting huge spots on my chin. Huge, painful, can't-squeeze-because-nothing-happens-except-pain type spots. Am thinking they are probably linked to sugar/hormones, but how on earth do I get rid of them? My chin looks deformed due to one I have at the moment :(

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tarragonalley · 06/01/2014 22:31

I really sympathise! I stopped getting these monthly blighters after switching to Alpha H Liquid Gold 3x week overnight on its own. QVC.

Elenio · 06/01/2014 22:33

I find sudocrem helps massively! Smear it on before bed and it really helps the redness and swelling.

Admittedly it's not the most attractive look having a white face Grin

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Catrin · 06/01/2014 22:38

Ah, yes am mid-white face here at the moment! Does it need to be truly layered on?
Shall google the Alpha H stuff, thank you, not heard of it. Is it hormonal linked or is this some fresh miserable middle aged hell?

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LittleBabyPigsus · 07/01/2014 00:11

It's hormonal cystic acne - I get it too. Evening Primrose Oil capsules help but make sure you get the high-strength stuff (at least 1000mg). Supermarkets do it as well as Holland & Barrett.

CalamityKate · 07/01/2014 00:19

I used to get these. Sympathies - they're horrible. Then they just stopped. No idea why. I went from always having at least 2 on the go to having none.

Unfortunately they took my libido with them :(

WhoNickedMyName · 07/01/2014 11:39

Cover your chin in calamine lotion before bed. Ibuprofen (tablets or gel) also takes the swelling down a bit and makes them less red and throbby.

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Catrin · 07/01/2014 15:41

Thank you all, will follow up the recommendations.

Soory to hear that CalamityKate :(

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fedup21 · 07/01/2014 23:09

Snap, I'm the same and my skin is awful at the moment. I wouldn't describe it as acne but it's more one massive spot after after the other, in all different places. They are huge, painful, don't come to a head and just fade slowly to a small lump. I had one in October and I can still see a slight lump. No yucky stuff will ever come out and nothing-tea tree, calomine, surgical spirit, aspirin face masks, panoxyl-seems to do anything.

I have a feeling they are cystic spots (depending on where the spot is, I can swell up a lot-if near my lip, I look like I've been punched :( must be lots of soft tissue there?!

Would love a magic cure.

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Catrin · 07/01/2014 23:21

Having googled pics after what Littlebaby said, I think mine are too. Mine come up huge, then take FOREVER to go. After what everyone has suggested on here, have been googling like crazy and have come to the conclusion that I need to sort out my diet again. Have PCOS, which is never spot friendly, but when I lost 3 stone a couple of years ago (baby weight) the spots stopped, but have recently put on a stone and now they have started again, I guess I am over my optimal level. Plus am rubbish with vitamins/proper cleaning. Hope you get some ideas to try too, Fedup...

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fedup21 · 07/01/2014 23:32

It's rubbish isn't it?! I don't know whether it's worth going to the GP? Or will they just try to put me on the pill? My skin was good in my teens, it seems v unfair to be getting spots in my mid 30s :(

I wonder what vitamins are worth a punt?

gaggiagirl · 07/01/2014 23:35

I second calamine lotion.

LittleBabyPigsus · 08/01/2014 06:56

fedup High-strength evening primrose oil helps, at least 1000mg (standard strength is 500mg). Have heard good things about starflower oil but never tried it myself. You could try a general women's health supplement that will have a mixture - Superdrug do one and they currently have vitamins and supplements on special offer. It's about £2 so worth a go!

50shadesofmeh · 08/01/2014 08:58

I'm getting the exact same on my chin and cheeks , I've got 2 stone to lose of baby weight so can only assume its hormonal cystic acne.
I thought I'd shaken off acne years ago .
Going to sort my diet out and see if that helps

picnicbasketcase · 08/01/2014 09:05

Savlon cream makes them shrink and fade quite quickly too.

lurkingaround · 08/01/2014 09:52

Cystic spots need medical treatment. You can try all the above but you will keep getting new ones. And each new one will leave a scar. So even if you only get one spot a month, you're talking 12 new scars a year. Even if they are v small scars they are still scars.

So you need to get to your GP for starters and take it from there. You can always discuss referral to a dermatologist also.

SwimmingMom · 08/01/2014 10:14

DUAC ointment on prescription from the GP - the only remedy with long lasting success.

DolomitesDonkey · 08/01/2014 12:03

A thread here before convinced me to go to doc and she prescribed fucidin which my husband yells me is OTC. I haven't had one since but tbh I doubt it's a dab of cream alone - I'm sure they'll be back.

fedup21 · 08/01/2014 12:16

I'm sure Fucidin is prescription only? We have it when DS's eczema gets infected. It's an antibiotic cream.

Does it work on your cystic spots, Dolomitedonkey?

lurkingaround · 08/01/2014 15:26

Fucidin won't work on cystic acne.
Seriously, just go to your GP.

LittleBonnie · 08/01/2014 15:31

Try Quinoderm!! It is available from behind the pharmacy counter in Boots without a prescription and is really cheap! It is the strongest thing you can get without a prescription and contains the same active ingredient that you get in the creams from your doctor. It is the only thing which worked for me and I had massive spots, not just on my chin neither!!

VarsityQueen · 08/01/2014 17:45

After 20 years of suffering, I find this quite good for spots (I'm another one with hormonal chin spots). And the bonus is that it's also good for wrinkles/re surfacing skin.

I've never found a spot cream (Sudacrem, Freederm, Clearasil, Quinoderm etc) that works when the issue is not just on the surface. When I get really bad swollen spots I find it's better to use moisturiser and to treat the skin nicely than to pile a lot of spot cream on.

fedup21 · 08/01/2014 17:58

Is it a cream or a serum to go on the whole fase, VarsityQueen? Will it be £14 well spent!?

MikeLitoris · 08/01/2014 18:07

Ive currently got a huge lump festering under the skin on my chin. Its like a hard lump but has no head. Its not even red or anything. It just looks like an odd shaped chin :( Been using duac on it since it came up but it isnt working this time.

on the whole my face has improved massively since using a regular face wash (peaches and cream is my fave) and duac. I also use a cheap moisturiser every morning.

My skin is good except for these random one or two spots.

DolomitesDonkey · 08/01/2014 18:10

The fucidin kills them dead - but better than that, because it's anti-biotic it cleared up the infected one I had when I stuck a needle in it. And no, I'm not proud.

VarsityQueen · 08/01/2014 22:29

Fedup21 It's for your whole face, you use a tiny amount as it's quite potent stuff, you can feel it burning slightly. You don't put moisturiser on top. It claims to correct your skin at a deeper level, so you don't keep breaking out in the same place. I don't use it every night but like knowing it's there because it reduces the size and redness of blemishes.