Fleshy Plugs Under Skin In Pores on Face

[M7166]

there is a spot on my nose that i've rubbed raw washing, trying to get these "things" out of my pores.  these are not whiteheads, nor blackheads.  these are clusters of white or fleshy hard and sticky plugs-- not filled with anything, but they stick straight out from the pores. They are not bumps.  If I rub the area w/ a towel they do not rub off at all.  I tried to remove one with tweezers, and it was very tacky (as in sticky)  and clearly goes deep under the skin.  Part of it broke off but I could still see that the pore was plugged and a day or two later top of the plug was sticking out again. i can't find ANYTHING online that looks like it.  

[NK227]

I began supplementing with iodine after reading a book: Iodine : Why You Need It, Why You Cant Live Without It. And approximately after 3 months all sores healed, and new ones stopped occurring. I cant say for sure that iodine deficiency causes our problem, but after reading tons and tons of research articles on iodine, I think it is quite possible. It is the first time in 7 years my skin looks decent without any hardcore antibiotics, accutane, antifungals, or other poisons that we all put inside trying to fix this ****.

[Btaki]

I have suffered with hard cysts on my face, some on my back. They start out as smooth round bumps then turn into what many people here are describing. Over a year ago I remember I pulled a white long rubbery tube through a pore in my nose but never knew what it was.  Before my lesions appeared I had some minor stomach troubles that would come and go. Just recently I discovered I maybe I am infected with tapeworm from eating the eggs from either sashimi or under cooked beef or pork. I am waiting to get a colonoscopy and endoscopy.The tapeworm larvae can migrate to other parts of the body other wise known as cysticercosis. Also another possible culprit maybe filariasis  from flea or mosquito. Seems to me these parasitic worms are getting more common.  So to keep it short if you have some even minor digestive issues research tapeworm and hopefully it may help your condition.  Good Luck

[Trixny]

Are you taking it orally or topically?

[NK227]

Orally, 200 mcg of Iodomarine (potassium iodide) in the morning. Sometimes during first 3 months I tried to take Iodoral 6mg (half of a 12 mg tablet), but it gave me heart palpitations, so that i decided to stick with lower doses. Now however, after 6 months of 200 mcg/day Iodomarine supplementation, I can take Iodoral full dose 12 mg without side effects. I take Iodoral may be once a week, or once in two weeks. But read a book first, it's available for free somewhere on the internet.

[nw2this]

I put castor oil on my face, then I apply a steaming wash cloth 4 or 5 times wiping off the oil off on the last application. this coaxes them out but not all the way. Your pores feel much clearer, but looking closely at your skin in the mirror after doing this shows that every pore on your face even the small ones has something white poking out of it.    

do any of you also have toenail fungus? I'm wondering if the conditions are related.

[Didi11718]

Same problem here. I thought I had a whitehead on my eyelid. It was there 4-5 months w/o ever changing. So one day I just scratched lightly over it with my fingernail. A tiny amount of pus came out but I could see there was still white in it. Mostly hard. Afterwards it was like I just couldn’t leave it alone. So I pua needle & tweezers in alcohol to soak then tried to get it out. No way. Then I could see the fleshy hard plugs & I began using the tweezers to pull out. But I would always see more white plugs. So I was just making it red/inflamed. I went to the dermatologist who squeezed it & only got some blood. He didn’t know what it was but gave me the minocyine mentioned above. Twice a day. And some cream antibiotic. Within 3 days it was much better. Now I am almost finished w/14 days on the minocyine and you can only see close up but white is still there. Not round like a pimple but I can feel under the skin like it is small lines. So I’m back to the dermatologist. Will post when I get more info. The antibiotic sure cleared it up & looks so much better. But I can’t stand the thought the plugs are there. Good luck to all.

[Maca234]

Hi there is thread still working....I to have same prob

[Aenika]

Hello! does anybody have news on diagnosis or treatment of this?

[Helpmyback]

Dude I have the same thing did you figure out what it was or what to do?

[Aenika]

I've made a blood test for Lyme desease and Borellia and it was negative (so in my case it's not Lyme).

Did someone test these spiky lesions for herpes infection?
In my case they itch very similar to herpes mouth sores.

I've read in another thread a message from a person with this contition that he was diagnosed it's HSV-3.

Oral herpes (cold sores) is HSV-1 (herpes simplex infection) and HSV-3 is Varicella Zoster.

[Blannis]

Hmm was it a current/active infection test? Or one that tested for past antibodies which would indicate a prior infection at another point? Sometimes A new infection won't show up on Bloodwork yet, or a blood test that is only testing for an active infection, will fail to also include testing for the antibodies that prove a "past" infection. I say "past" here only because certain pathogens have been known to go dormant only to reactivate later on during a period of low immunity. The HSV-3 theory is interesting and sounds plausible, but as for myself I tried dosing myself with Valtrex for a few weeks and saw no improvement (I'm telling you I've tried almost everything!). I'm pretty sure HSV-3 is what causes shingles and they prescribe Valtrex for shingles so I would think if that was the case I wouldn't have shown some
Improvement. One has to wonder if there are different root causes at play here for all of us (some viral, some bacterial, some parasitic) but they all cause the same
Mechanism of dysfunction in the keratinocyte cells which produce (collagen?) and keratin.

[Blannis]

Would have** shown some improvement **

[Blannis]

Also, the theory that is related to Lymes disease, involves a different bacteria and a different organism of transmission... which are barely known to anyone at this point. Not to doctors or the general public. And it is not included in the database of human pathogens yet... so *if* it was this pathogen causing this problem
For some of us, no amount of blood work and testing would ever produce the results confirming it. A pathogen needs to be actually *in* the database that the computers and/or microbiologists use to diagnose the bloods in order to be diagnosed! If there is a new bacteria previously not known to infect humans, then it is simply not  being tested for, even if it HAS (documented!) begun to infect humans. I don't know at which point this new pathogen will be included in lab diagnostics but I'll be interested to see when and if it does. Google "beneficial nematodes" ... then google "heterohabditis bacteriophora"...... then google "photorhabdus asymbiotica" ... then go back and google "heterohabditis bacteriophora human infection".  Even if this is not what we have, it's very interesting to say the least. I recommend you spend a few hours reading the scientific reports which explain just how random/rare
It is that the scientists ended up actually diagnosing the 13 confirmed cases (by chance and by lots of investigating and hard work). You can see the similarity to Lymes here... in Lymes the tick bites you and you get infected with Borrelia. With this stuff above, they presume an insect that has been infected by this nematode (a tiny worm called heterohabditis, who produces the bacteria called photorhabdus asymbiotica) might bite you and transmit the nematode and or bacteria into the human host. Previously, these pathogens were said not to infect humans, but 13 cases have now been confirmed in medical papers. One can only imagine how many others have been infected as it is not a pathogen that is currently included in Bloodwork laboratories databases. It was only thanks to very hardworking and suspicious lab workers who had a suspicion that the lab diagnostics for certain blood samples didn't make sense to them, so they dig deeper and deeper.

[Blannis]

I've been dealing with this exact skin problem for 4 years on my face and chest. I have a lot of free time at night and have probably spent a *combined totals* time of about 4-5 months researching it and all of the many theories. I have gone down many paths of treatment for the various things it could be. One thing is for sure there is a huge connection to Lymes disease with this skin condition.  It is not commonly tested for, so who knows how many of us have been infected with Lymes and don't know it. The bacteria involved in Lymes is very tricky and will pick organs to hide out in and other hiding areas such as hair follicles which are hard to flood with antibiotics. In the hair follicle, these bacteria have been theorized to aggravate part of our skin called keratinocytes which are responsible for producing keratin (and I think collagen) up from the dermis into the epidermis. When the keratinocytes are being aggravated by the Lymes bacteria called Borrelia, they malfunction and spew out and overload of keratin/collagen, which is what forms these long plugs within the hair follicle aka pore. A small team of scientists concluded this was what was probably occurring after they found the Lyme bacteria, called Borrelia, living inside of these "plugs" taken from samples of  scab that have the plugs attached, from people suffering this condition. This is the theory I'm leaning most towards currently. As a side note I once did a (very risky and unhealthy) two month course of oral ketoconazole which I thought cured the condition, but it returned ten months later. Also google morgellons. While many accounts of this condition sound a bit crazy or exaggerated, it DOES sound like they have some sort of variation of this condition where they not only experience the plugs, but also fiber growths under the skin too. The scientists in the above mentioned study concluded the morgellons fibers were again, a mixture of keratin and collagen (they were proved to be biologically formed by the body, and not made of cellulose or anything clothing fibers are made of) probably from the keratinocytes function being screwed up by the bacteria. I'm so thankful
I don't get the fibers and hope I never will. Hopefully some day this is a recognized condition and we can get to the bottom of this.

[Blannis]

There is another theory which is very similar to the tick bite/Lymes/Borrelia theory but I need to go back and figure out the names of the involved species and pathogens to make sure I convey it all correctly. It is, to say the least, mind blowing.