Sebaceous hyperplasia

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Does anyone else have these and know of any treatment?

I’m 33 and they’re multiplying. I have very, very oily, acne prone skin. The dermatologist I sore who diagnosed them basically said they were ‘one of those things.’ They’re popping up all over my face and now I even have one on my nose

Cannot believe I wrote ‘sore’ instead of saw. Please excuse me; blame my tired, ‘been isolated with little kids for far too long’ brain!!!

So I suffer from this and I mean SUFFER

I had to cancel a treatment I was having due to lockdown

So the advice I have had from an aesthetician is to use the La Roche Posay range and ALWAYS were sunscreen even in winter.

Basically your ONLY hope here is to spend £££ on an aesthetician and have them burnt or frozen off at least once a year

Here's an example for Newcastle :

advancedskintherapies.co.uk/advanced-cosmetic-procedures/sebaceous-hyperlasia-treatments/

But there are similar all over just search

Sebaceous Hyperplasia Treatment plus your locality

I am hearing things about a product called Eponine Lyft Tx (a texturising cream) is good, but as it costs £50 I am unsure whether to risk it for it to make no difference.

My aesthetician also strongly recommended Retinol. I started with The Ordinary and move on to Olay. I don't think I've found my IT product with Retinol yet.

So this is the cleansing range I use :

www.laroche-posay.co.uk/effaclar-3-step-anti-blemish-system-new

Why don’t you see a dermatologist, there the skin specialist
After covid 19. Why not ask gp for a referral?
Or pay 1st consultation private then go on there nhs list

The NHS won't treat SH as it is a purely cosmetic issue.

Thanks!
I’ve just started a new acne treatment called epiduo, which benzoyl peroxide and a retinol combined. I’m hoping it might help a bit. The one on my nose is worrying me, actually. It looks redder than the others, but I’m hoping that just because the skin there is different. Being home all day isn’t great when it comes to obsessing over weird skin things

Dermatologist told me to try adapalene for mine but I find niacinamide more effective at shrinking them. I use the Ordinary niacinamide, cheap as chips, a drop or two on my whole face plus dotted on the SH with a cotton bud overnight. I wear sunscreen every day now.

At the moment I'm trying some products I saw recommended on this board so also started using a salicylic face wash and P50 twice a day as well as the Eve Lom Rescue mask. So far after about 10 days none of these is more effective than anything else I've tried but as I said they were recommended by others so worth a try.

I made an appointment at a medi-spa kind of place to discuss what can be done, that's for next week but when she was booking it the aesthetician looked at me and said 'hmm, maybe laser resurfacing' which wasn't what I'd hoped to hear tbh!

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