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Fleshy Plugs Under Skin In Pores on Face
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.
I also searched and scoured the internet for an answer to this precise skin eruption with a center gel-like fiber that had to be removed before healing would begin. I have scars along my neck and down my arms and legs from this condition which would ebb and flow for years. I tried everything from antibiotics to ivermectin without any real relief outside of the fact that it was episodic over a ten year span. Later, I tested positive for HLA-B27, a gene associated with the mnemonic PAIR: Psoriasis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Inflammatory bowel disease, and Reactive Arthritis. Now, having experienced everyone of those other associated autoimmune diseases to one degree or another, in hind sight, I strongly believe that the condition is a skin manifestation of reactive arthritis, our immune systems response to a different bacterial infections somewhere else and even at some earlier time. It could be a staph, chlamydia, yersinia, or strep, but it isn't in the lesions themselves, it's a defective autoimmune response. Ask you GP for a HLA-B27 gene test if you're experiencing these lesions.
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I also have the HLA-B27 disease :( with lots of spinal issues!
A photo from Google lead me to this Thread; because the "Fleshy Plug" in the photo looks a lot like what I have (and others posting here) from what started out as a feeling like I got punched in the arm (or a vaccine shot) let me explain...
About 5 months ago I woke up and my side arm/shoulder was hurting as if someone had punched me in it; more so it felt exactly like the pain I had after getting a Tetanus Vaccine Shot after a motorcycle accident around 2006... The area was slightly irritated in look (slightly tan red as I am tan skin tone) and hard to the touch in an area that was about the size of an oreo cookie...
I began to massage and skin roll the area (BIG MISTAKE!!!) and the area began to soften up and it actually began to come to/form a zit/pimple type head, this popped rather easy a small amount of puss like a small pimple came out nothing uncommon it seemed; and then just a bunch of clear (interstitial fluid or possibly the demodex mites secretion???) came out...
One thing seemed odd about the location too as it seemed like it was in exactly the same area I received the shot; like the pimple seemed to be right where I got that shot at and the pain was exactly the same and considering much of the medical industry has no clue how or where these pimples come or form from its my opinion that some sort of bio-toxin from the Vaccine caused it or that the mite is actually cross inhabitating humans from animals; specifically dogs...
My neighbor gave us a couch and he had dogs; however no one else in the household has any signs of these at all...
Over the next day or two it began to look as if it was healing like a normal popped zit; but then it just stayed a Hard Purple Scab Color but it was Not a scab it was a Very Hard Purple zit; as if it was a hard blot clot just under the skin...
At this point I went to work to get that thing out of me; think it was an ingrown hair as that is what it kind of looked like... I basically ripped and scrubbed the hard lump off down to what I thought was my raw flesh; but no in-grown hair... It then seemed to be healing like normal, but it never turned to a scab it turned to a white hard skin callus...
For me this was odd as all my life my wounds always healed well and in the same manner this was different...
I soaked in the tub and the hard white callus came off after some scrubbing... This is when I noticed what looks like white heads in my pores under this false scab, so I used the tweezers to pluck them out a few looked like small fleshy hairs; then I plucked one that looked like a tadpole but the size of an ant (have a photo of an extracted one, dont know how to post it)... Since then I have pulled over a dozen large ones and the layers come back with force thicker...
I then found this thread and tried a few things to see if I can rid them or get them into balance... So far not much has worked; it is however staying local to its original location...
I want to note too I noticed my friends 17 year old son has one still in the first hard purple pimple stage; he said hes had it for going on 3 years now, they have a dog...
A couple other people I know also had them one on the scalp and stomach others on their shoulders and backs; all also dog owners or in households with dogs...
Vaccine status isn't know for the other parties at this time; however they all had to get them cut out and sticked up surgically...
About 5 months ago I woke up and my side arm/shoulder was hurting as if someone had punched me in it; more so it felt exactly like the pain I had after getting a Tetanus Vaccine Shot after a motorcycle accident around 2006... The area was slightly irritated in look (slightly tan red as I am tan skin tone) and hard to the touch in an area that was about the size of an oreo cookie...
I began to massage and skin roll the area (BIG MISTAKE!!!) and the area began to soften up and it actually began to come to/form a zit/pimple type head, this popped rather easy a small amount of puss like a small pimple came out nothing uncommon it seemed; and then just a bunch of clear (interstitial fluid or possibly the demodex mites secretion???) came out...
One thing seemed odd about the location too as it seemed like it was in exactly the same area I received the shot; like the pimple seemed to be right where I got that shot at and the pain was exactly the same and considering much of the medical industry has no clue how or where these pimples come or form from its my opinion that some sort of bio-toxin from the Vaccine caused it or that the mite is actually cross inhabitating humans from animals; specifically dogs...
My neighbor gave us a couch and he had dogs; however no one else in the household has any signs of these at all...
Over the next day or two it began to look as if it was healing like a normal popped zit; but then it just stayed a Hard Purple Scab Color but it was Not a scab it was a Very Hard Purple zit; as if it was a hard blot clot just under the skin...
At this point I went to work to get that thing out of me; think it was an ingrown hair as that is what it kind of looked like... I basically ripped and scrubbed the hard lump off down to what I thought was my raw flesh; but no in-grown hair... It then seemed to be healing like normal, but it never turned to a scab it turned to a white hard skin callus...
For me this was odd as all my life my wounds always healed well and in the same manner this was different...
I soaked in the tub and the hard white callus came off after some scrubbing... This is when I noticed what looks like white heads in my pores under this false scab, so I used the tweezers to pluck them out a few looked like small fleshy hairs; then I plucked one that looked like a tadpole but the size of an ant (have a photo of an extracted one, dont know how to post it)... Since then I have pulled over a dozen large ones and the layers come back with force thicker...
I then found this thread and tried a few things to see if I can rid them or get them into balance... So far not much has worked; it is however staying local to its original location...
I want to note too I noticed my friends 17 year old son has one still in the first hard purple pimple stage; he said hes had it for going on 3 years now, they have a dog...
A couple other people I know also had them one on the scalp and stomach others on their shoulders and backs; all also dog owners or in households with dogs...
Vaccine status isn't know for the other parties at this time; however they all had to get them cut out and sticked up surgically...
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I get what now is scars with white gooey plugs under the skin thats healed.im sure these were once due to meth use ,but other fresh diff spots have clustered up on my face and neck.flat crusty yellow spots that look like zits but when picked,enlarge and when scabs come off alot of red or white pointy plugs in pores.when pulled out area bleeds heavily.i have not sought medical treatment yet.at first i thought impetigo.but after researching i think it was also meth bumps that has now turned to staph or mrsa,wo the fever.i have meth bump scars.aka mites that will not heal properly or completely til all of white plug is pulled out or dug out.which made the once scar a now huve crater.its really embarrassing, even w make up all over me to let anyone see me that way.my once flawless skin,is now covered w bumps,scabs,scars.also on my face is pus filled bumps.looks like zits.if i pop them,fluid goes to next pore and swells.im really freaking out.its been about 3 mo of deing w this.i dont wanna confess to dr nor do i wanna share truth w anuone else who knows me.my skin burns,bleeds and just looks horrendous. What is it and what should i use? Ive tried everythjng
A neighbor of mine got a Tetanus shot in the arm about a week later he had the exact same symptoms painful hard purplish lump which turned callus hard after popping/picking...
The Doctors prescribed him 2% "Mupirocin" Ointment; it worked for him after a couple weeks, mine was well over a year almost 2 years in now... This Ointment works somewhat but never really got rid of it in the sense that it would heal like a "Normal" wound would...
A few months ago another neighbor friend got a wart on his hand and his Grandmother is like 80+y/o she told him tear it out some and put Crushed Aspirin in the wound and cover it with a band-aid...
He did that for about a week or two and it went away....
After seeing that I decided to do the ever painful but relieving callus rip out which usually results in plugs being yanked out or exposed enough to yank out...
I found that soaking the area in tub helps loosen up the Callus and if you use Hydrogen-Peroxide it will fry the callus into a white soft flesh that usually is easily torn off... So I would use a combination of soaking and holding a cap of Peroxide on the wound to get as much of the Fleshy Plug Callus to surface...
After this "cleaning" or Plucking Session I packed it with crushed Aspirin; put some of the Mupirocin cream on the Band-Aid and put it on...
I have been doing this now for going into the 3rd week now; If feels as if all the Hard Callus area is now gone and the center no longer Calluses up overnight and the wound is healing in a normal fashion...
My advice now is to soak & tear the Callus off, then soak the open wound with Peroxide pluck and clean some more (I often wipe my hands and area with rubbing alcohol too) and then Finally pack the wound with Aspirin... I did this Twice a day in the AM after sleeping and in the evening before bed... I do it more often if I feel like it but usually no less than Twice a day until I began to see results and all the hard Callus was gone...
Hope this helps..!
The Doctors prescribed him 2% "Mupirocin" Ointment; it worked for him after a couple weeks, mine was well over a year almost 2 years in now... This Ointment works somewhat but never really got rid of it in the sense that it would heal like a "Normal" wound would...
A few months ago another neighbor friend got a wart on his hand and his Grandmother is like 80+y/o she told him tear it out some and put Crushed Aspirin in the wound and cover it with a band-aid...
He did that for about a week or two and it went away....
After seeing that I decided to do the ever painful but relieving callus rip out which usually results in plugs being yanked out or exposed enough to yank out...
I found that soaking the area in tub helps loosen up the Callus and if you use Hydrogen-Peroxide it will fry the callus into a white soft flesh that usually is easily torn off... So I would use a combination of soaking and holding a cap of Peroxide on the wound to get as much of the Fleshy Plug Callus to surface...
After this "cleaning" or Plucking Session I packed it with crushed Aspirin; put some of the Mupirocin cream on the Band-Aid and put it on...
I have been doing this now for going into the 3rd week now; If feels as if all the Hard Callus area is now gone and the center no longer Calluses up overnight and the wound is healing in a normal fashion...
My advice now is to soak & tear the Callus off, then soak the open wound with Peroxide pluck and clean some more (I often wipe my hands and area with rubbing alcohol too) and then Finally pack the wound with Aspirin... I did this Twice a day in the AM after sleeping and in the evening before bed... I do it more often if I feel like it but usually no less than Twice a day until I began to see results and all the hard Callus was gone...
Hope this helps..!
After several years, and learning that I have CVID, Common Variable Immune Deficiency, I'm finally getting some respect from the medical community. Because of my immune deficiency I don't make IgG, IgM or IgA, and I now have to infuse myself with IgG every week to try to avoid infections.
Anyway, my dermatologist, at present, was in the Army for over 20 years and is also an expert immunologist. She also believes in a lot of conditions that other dermatologists don't... Army? She worked as a doctor/researcher there.
She thinks that I have a combination demodex and fungal infection. My Rheumatologist got very nervous about this, because fungal infections can invade the sinuses and/or become systemic, and this can be devastating for immune deficient folks. She has referred me to an infectious disease doctor. I had great hope for the one I saw in 2015, but he ended up laughing at me and said that I was making the lesions myself.
When I posted a long while back about Chaetomium, I think I was getting a lot of demodex wrapped up in fungal hyphae, so it looked like that to me. It's not.
I'm using Sodium Sulfacetamide shampoo and face wash along with Adapalene (all 3 prescription) along with Ovante Demodex Control PLUS (Amazon). I'm also using the anti-fungals Clotrimazole and Lamisil.
A major consideration for my particular issue is that there are literally HUNDREDS of layers of skin or biofilm. I can't seem to ever get to the bottom, and as I remove layers, old, familiar lesions... even one that I called "The Mother Ship". I think that all of these layers are what makes my skin look puffy.
Does anyone else get GRANULES out of/off of your skin? I get a lot of amber colored, hard "things" that are round or tear drop shaped. They may be from layers of clogged oil glands, but at this time I don't know.
I'll let you know what happens next...
Anyway, my dermatologist, at present, was in the Army for over 20 years and is also an expert immunologist. She also believes in a lot of conditions that other dermatologists don't... Army? She worked as a doctor/researcher there.
She thinks that I have a combination demodex and fungal infection. My Rheumatologist got very nervous about this, because fungal infections can invade the sinuses and/or become systemic, and this can be devastating for immune deficient folks. She has referred me to an infectious disease doctor. I had great hope for the one I saw in 2015, but he ended up laughing at me and said that I was making the lesions myself.
When I posted a long while back about Chaetomium, I think I was getting a lot of demodex wrapped up in fungal hyphae, so it looked like that to me. It's not.
I'm using Sodium Sulfacetamide shampoo and face wash along with Adapalene (all 3 prescription) along with Ovante Demodex Control PLUS (Amazon). I'm also using the anti-fungals Clotrimazole and Lamisil.
A major consideration for my particular issue is that there are literally HUNDREDS of layers of skin or biofilm. I can't seem to ever get to the bottom, and as I remove layers, old, familiar lesions... even one that I called "The Mother Ship". I think that all of these layers are what makes my skin look puffy.
Does anyone else get GRANULES out of/off of your skin? I get a lot of amber colored, hard "things" that are round or tear drop shaped. They may be from layers of clogged oil glands, but at this time I don't know.
I'll let you know what happens next...
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Yes I have them coming out of my forehead I get rid of them on there and they come out on a different spot my area am I get him out of my eyes the light hard granular white when summer round flake squishy sticky things some of them come out like little Half Moon things they're like pretty thick some come out little teeny hard hard granules it's like they're in there forever like there's layers of them I get some of them out and then go somewhere else and then it spreads around on my face on the forehead
Here is my advice take 6 drops of each of theses oils three times a day in a glass of water,clove,cinnamon,rosemary,red thime,lemon,oregano this is the only cure,trust me it works to kill morgellions
Here is my advice take 6 drops of each of theses oils three times a day in a glass of water,clove,cinnamon,rosemary,red thime,lemon,oregano this is the only cure,trust me it works to kill morgellions
I've had this problem for years. Right now, I have one on either side of my chin that I've been dealing with for about 6 weeks. After reading the responses, I decided to experiment with the antifungal approach. So, I put some tolnaftate-based athlete's foot cream on a Band-Aid and keep it on them overnight. When I first applied it, I could feel it stinging. This morning, I was about 50% better over yesterday morning. There's still a little soreness but the scabbing is much better. Will try the same thing tonight.
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