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Bumps on face with sand-like crystals inside

I have several bumps on my face that I recently one opened up and found a very hard, sand-like grain inside that is yellowish-white in color.  They are pretty well attached and do not squeeze out, had to practically cut them out with a hypodermic needle tip.  They start out small and enlarge until there is a bump which is noticable.  What causes these and how do I avoid getting more of them?  Thanks for your help.
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I don't know what they are. I'm almost 45. I've had them since I started nursing my youngest son at birth... He's 21 now. It comes and goes over the years. I have it again and it's always on the left side of the left breast on the areola and that is it. They hurt severely ... I also have several chronic conditions that make me highly sensitive to the pain. I have to scrape them off after they work their way out of the skin... It's a major event and I admit I have been in tears from how much it hurts. My chronic conditions simplified I have 6 blown discs arthritis of the spine scholiosis sclerosis in the lower back 2 pinched nerves arachnoiditis fibro and the list goes on. Everything makes it harder to cope when trying to get rid of them... They have nothing else to do with the crystals but they affect how it affects me when it happens I can feel them growing now. Couldn't before. WHen my youngest son and my young daughter were nursing I was told not to use the left side when they were occurring as the crystals could affect the babies... I don't know what Millia is but I will be looking it up and would love to talk to others who deal with this as well.
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        I am 53 and have had one on my cheek near my nose and mouth. When I wash my face it feels like its cutting me. I have had a few milia that I removed myself with a needle. This one is bigger and the dermatologist said to me, its just a whitehead, go home and pop it. I didnt bother trying to argue that it was not that. So, I just went on for years, then decided to remove it myself, with a needle. I broke through the skin and it hurt and bled a lttle. It was srubborn. The next day I took a cotton ball with peroxide and rubbed it firmly and let it bubble a while. Then I took another cotton ball with a little rubbing alcohol and it came out. It had an irregular shape, like a tiny stone.
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I too have been struggling with the grainy sand under my skin since I had chemo and radiation for breast cancer in 2006.  All doctors I have seen say they are milia but they're not!!  I am 65  and have been given a couple of options. (1) use retin-a as it will slowly slough off the skin and hopefully the "sand" and (2) have a procedure called a skin pin that takes off top layer and over time and a couple of these procedures done shows to be very promising. Also helps with acne scars.  Also, not to leave out, I developed kidney stones around the same time, and they are made of calcium oxylate.  All of this shows to me to be some kind of mineral problem in my body.
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Hi,

I signed up on here just to post to this thread.  

I too have sharp, hexagonal, translucent crystals that break through my skin and quickly melt there after.  When these attacks occur, if I have any wound that is scabbed over, these crystal structures appear in great concentration and can be seen with the naked eye embedded into the scab (when the scab is removed).

Now, I only have this condition occur under 1 extremely specific circumstance:  When I am coming down off of IV Methamphetamine

I have verified that I am not hallucinating these symptoms by verifying visual symptoms with multiple sober individuals.  

These crystals then start to come out of my tear ducts, my skin, my saliva glands, they are in my snot, and even in my ears as verified by collection and preservation in ear wax.  They are sharp and some break the skin, others form a large red bump that looks like a pimple.  You can feel the solid structure beneath the skin and sometime the structure will cause red lines in the skin in the exact width of the structure.

I've told a few doctors and they scoff at me even when I very clearly tell all of my lay recording (while on drugs...)

I believe these crystals coming out of several membranes are  related to one of two things.

1) Uric/Urate Acid in extreme levels such that it is able to solidify and break the skin.

2) Possible adulterants in the Methamphetamine.  My research says that the most likely crystal causing cutting agents are:  Hi,

I signed up on here just to post to this thread.  

I too have sharp, hexagonal, translucent crystals that break through my skin and quickly melt there after.  When these attacks occur, if I have any wound that is scabbed over, these crystal structures appear in great concentration and can be seen with the naked eye embedded into the scab (when the scab is removed).

Now, I only have this condition occur under 1 extremely specific circumstance:  When I am coming down off of IV Methamphetamine

I have verified that I am not hallucinating these symptoms by verifying visual symptoms with multiple sober individuals.  

These crystals then start to come out of my tear ducts, my skin, my saliva glands, they are in my snot, and even in my ears as verified by collection and preservation in ear wax.  They are sharp and some break the skin, others form a large red bump that looks like a pimple.  You can feel the solid structure beneath the skin and sometime the structure will cause red lines in the skin in the exact width of the structure.

I've told a few doctors and they scoff at me even when I very clearly tell all of my lay recording (while on drugs...)

I believe these crystals coming out of several membranes are  related to one of two things.

1) Uric/Urate Acid in extreme levels such that it is able to solidify and break the skin.

2) Possible adulterants in the Methamphetamine.  My research says that the most likely crystal causing cutting (or production residue) agents are:  Xanthine, Toulene, or Naphthalene

I think that in a condition of moderate to severe dehydration that my kidney is compromised and by some method, an abundance of crystals emerge from my skin.

There are several forum postings around the internet where people claim to have crystals coming out their [put whatever here: nose, ears, eyes, urine, skin, nail beds, etc] and this is especially true when you include 'methamphetamine' into the search.  

There is not however even one medical journal about this.  At the very least, I would like to see a study on why methamphetamine users report such a specific, but to the Medical Professionals, false or hallucinated symptoms.

Thanks for any insight any one may have.
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I have them on my scalp ..nasty and itchy...I am sure it is caused by what they are spraying ..look up
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I have the same problem on my chin for months..it's driving me nuts. I havnt been out in weeks confidence shot and I get no sleep over this.. from it growing membrain like over chin with a thick gel like substance filled with little balls that when hit hair turn into a ball of black hairs to mile long feathery tape like substance that literally unravels off my chin and shoots off my chin for hours. This **** is transparent cotony hair like substance that at some times showers my arm or legs coming out at a crazy rate. All of it is stuck and stitched in by these crystaly tooth pic like things that if you break turn into more immediately.i have spent hours pulling them out and thenot something moves around my chin covering and layering more on over and over and never ending. The doctor would even let me finish my sentence and acted like I was making it up. He then prescribed me my 5th antibiotic and told me to put hydrogen peroxide on it twice a day.. I'm like wtf!my parents thunk I'm hallucinating the whole thing and I'm at my wits end. If anybody knows a remedy to this madness that has completely taken over my life please email me immediately.  It's quality of life at this point and I need help. My name is Alex I am 36..please help
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I have the exact same thing as well, but on my eyes.  At first I thought it was a worm because I could feel it moving in my eyelid all the time....eventually it started spewing something that was almost like a massively long kinky super thin hair....but it never ended!   If I kept pulling it, I could literally feel it unraveling under my skin all throughout my face! This is miserable.   Everyone thinks I'm delusional..I constantly have this feeling of a string in my eye,  yet eye doc sees nothing!   My eyelashes are completely hidden under these crystal things that just look like my skin...so I just simply look like I have no eyelashes.  I'm run down all the time, and my face is a constant wreck.   I have never had a problem with acne....until this.  Have toy figured anything out?  I'm desperate.   Ive noticed that everybody who complains of similar symptoms have somewhat of a compromised immune system, or autoimmune disorders....I myself have a severely low thyroid.    
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So fascinated to read all these comments, thought i was the only one suffering, the one i most relate to is 'ejny's comment, frustrated as going to party tomorrow, and they have caused small bumps under my eyes. can tell its crystals under each eye, yet cannot get them out.
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