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Losing my mind due to my face

I am a 44yr old female who has suffered with skin issues most of my life. Acne, clogged pores, rosacea and now sebhorreic dermatitis. I cannot live my life based on how my face looks and feels anymore. I am consumed with finding a solution to what is happening with my skin. I have large pores that resemble and orange peel on my nose and cheeks. They are smaller on my chin but are still visible. I get tiny hard clogs of sebum in my chin that need to be extracted daily or then will do deeper and not come out. I am always slightly pink looking but by end of day I flush more. My skin starts out normal in the morning but by mid day i am oily in the Tzone and after washing I am always dry and flakey. I have large amounts of flaking in my eyebrows, and scalp and a red spotted patch of skin on my lower jaw that has seb derm here as well. It is not as flakey here but is red and spotted. I need a remedy fast as I have been dealing with this for 2 solid years and have not gotten an ounce of relief...Pls help me get myself back

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  mcwick94 on 2012-04-03
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Hi there,

The following additional information is required to help you. Therefore, please do the best you can in providing a detailed and accurate data.

1. ID
2. Age
3. Sex
4. Single/Married
5. weight
6. Height ….
7. country
8. climate
9. List of your complaints

10. Since how long are you suffering from each complaint

11. Diabetic or non-Diabetic
12. Desire sweets/sour/salt
13. Thirst
14. Tongue and Taste
15. Current BP (without medicine and with medicine)

16. What exactly is happening?

17. How do you feel?
18. How does this affect you?

19. How does it feel like?
20. What comes to your mind?
21. One situation that had a
big effect on you?

22. How did that feel like?
23. What sensation do you experience in that situation?

24. What are you showing by that gesture of your hand (Habits or Actions)?

25. Current and previous remedies/medicines you are taking or took in the past?

26. Family Background
27. Educational Qualifications of the patient

28. Nature of work, what do you do for living?

29. Desires, likes and dislikes for food

30. Name of foods which increase your problem

31. Mind-behavior, anger, irritability, hurry, impatient…and so on.. How are you different from other persons, public speaking or not , you can describe all of the details about your behavior, love and affections.

32. Aggravation (increases-time, season,)& Amelioration (Decreases)

33. Attached here your photographs of the affected area. (if required/optional)

34. Location of the disease
35. Side of the problem (Right or Left), (Upper or Lower part of body)
36. Color of the secretions/discharges e.g urine, stool, sputum, Saliva etc.

For Females Only
37. When is the period during the month approx date? Any monthly cycle issues? Regular, early, late, before problems, after problems, pain, any other discharges?
38. Are you pregnant? If yes, please give pregnancy start date? Any current issues?

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
2. Age 44
3. Sex Female
4. Single/Married Married
5. weight 130lbs
6. Height …. 5ft 9'
7. country USA
8. climate Warm summers/Cold winters

9. List of your complaints Rosacea, large pores on nose and cheeks smaller ones in chin where I get clogged hard solified sebum stuck in chin pores and sebhorreic dermatitis on sides of face and slight dandruff and flaking in eyebrows. I also have light peach fuzz hair that developed on sides of face

10. Since how long are you suffering from each complaint
Rosacea (10yrs) Clogged Pores (3 yrs),Sebhorreic Derm (2yrs)

11. Diabetic or non-Diabetic Non Diabetic
12. Desire sweets/sour/salt sometimes
13. Thirst normal
14. Tongue and Taste normal
15. Current BP (without medicine and with medicine)120/90 for the last 14 yrs and 120/75 medicated with clonidine

16. What exactly is happening?
skin is progessively getting worse with more issues
17. How do you feel? overwhelmed & depressed

18. How does this affect you?
It consumes me 24 hrs a day

19. How does it feel like? very upsetting

20. What comes to your mind? ?
21. One situation that had a
big effect on you? Nothing specific comes to mind

22. How did that feel like?
23. What sensation do you experience in that situation?

24. What are you showing by that gesture of your hand (Habits or Actions)?
I tend to cover my mouth alot

25. Current and previous remedies/medicines you are taking or took in the past?
have tried all traditional topicals including a low dose of 20mg once a week of accutane but only lasted 14 weeks as it dried me out to much and made seb derm worse.
Have tried many supplements such as multi vitamin, zinc, nicotinamide, vit a, c,d, biotin, alpha lipoic acid, tumeric, B5, B6

26. Family Background Irish
27. Educational Qualifications of the patient college degree

28. Nature of work, what do you do for living?
stay at home mom

29. Desires, likes and dislikes for food
never cared much for food and was always very picky

30. Name of foods which increase your problem
recently had ALCAT allergy testing done and found I'm severely intolerant to broccoli, onions, soybean, cows milk, casein, cumin, avocado

31. Mind-behavior, anger, irritability, hurry, impatient…and so on.. How are you different from other persons, public speaking or not , you can describe all of the details about your behavior, love and affections.

I was always outgoing but in the last 2 yrs with my skin getting worse and having no set cleansing and moisturizing routine I have retreated socially from most everyone except my immediate family. Ive tried homeopathic, and ayuervedic remedies and have not seen any results. I have always flushed easily but it passed.
32. Aggravation (increases-time, season,)& Amelioration (Decreases) - winter is usually worse for me as it dries my skin out

33. Attached here your photographs of the affected area. (if required/optional)

34. Location of the disease -
Forehead & eyebrows are where the SD is and 1 patch on the side of my right jaw. Clogged pores in area along side of nose where pores are huge and mini clogs and blackheads in chin from corners of mouth down toward chin where it meets jaw. Random red flat spots show up on jawline and blush line daily

35. Side of the problem (Right or Left), (Upper or Lower part of body)
36. Color of the secretions/discharges e.g urine, stool, sputum, Saliva etc. Stool normal but had a parasite hookworm last march 2011 and went thru treatment of Veremox to rid and am parasite free now

For Females Only
37. When is the period during the month approx date? Any monthly cycle issues? Regular, early, late, before problems, after problems, pain, any other discharges? Had two periods during 2011 and the one in February of 2012 and one in March of 2012. Blood work revealed low estrogen and a high FSH levels.
38. Are you pregnant? If yes, please give pregnancy start date? Any current issues? Not pregnant, had a tubal ligation 10 yrs ago
[message edited by mcwick94 on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 19:07:10 BST]
 
mcwick94 last decade
Hi, May God Bless You.

Please hold your horses.
 
nawazkhan last decade
dr please
I'm so anxious for a reply as I cannot face looking at my disgusting skin anymore...I'm sorry I'm not patient its just so hard to deal with these any longer
 
mcwick94 last decade
Looking at your picture, your skin does not look bad to me really. Maybe you have body dysmorphic disorder? Although I just got this one picture to see, so I cannot judge accordingly.


Yes sounds like body dysmorphia after reading the details you gave. ie:

-loosing my mind over my face
-retreated socially because of appearance
-it consumes me 24 hours a day


platinum metallicum, thuja, arg-nit and many more are remedies for body dysmorphia. Need to find a remedy that has your skin problem as a symptom + Body dysmorphia.

I know platinum feels disgust easily, thuja feels ugly and so on.

Hope a homeopath will prescribe correct remedy for you.
[message edited by starface on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:38:35 BST]
 
starface last decade
Homeopathy can treat your skin, but think first, wouldn't be better treating the way you think your skin looks like?
 
brain last decade
do you have any issue with numbness? ie. A numb face when you are anxious, or around people or at home?

Do you feel disgust also easily for other things in life? Not just about yourself?

You say you were always very picky about food? Are you also very picky in general? About people etc?

Do you often feel emotional dissapointments?

Answers would be useful to rule out a possible remedy.
[message edited by starface on Thu, 05 Apr 2012 23:59:44 BST]
 
starface last decade

[message deleted by simone717 on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:20:51 BST]
 
simone717 last decade
I agree with you simone. I just mentioned that the REAL problem may be something else (mental/emotional).
 
brain last decade
Hi,

'I'm sorry I'm not patient its just so hard to deal with these any longer'

I would like to greatly appreciate your patience. I understand your feelings, but, we want to do it right. You will have to wait and digest all other noise on this thread as any member is entitled to their opinions.

Please upload or email me a real pic taken in the afternoon.

Many prayers for your good health soon.

Regards
Nawaz
 
nawazkhan last decade
last question that would be quite useful...

'please help me get myself back'.. this is a telling symptom of your condition.

Do you mean with this that you feel like part of you has been lost or is missing? So you are trying to get yourself back? If your skin improved you would feel like your old self, is that correct?

and the basic problem therefore coupled with the disgust you feel

.. this used to be my problem.
[message edited by starface on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:41:19 BST]
 
starface last decade
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[message deleted by simone717 on Fri, 06 Apr 2012 05:19:54 BST]
 
simone717 last decade
I appreciate your replies but you are not seeing the whole picture of my face. I have scales of dead skin on a daily basis from the sebhorreic dermatits that you cannot see. You have provided many remedies on this board, is there something you can provide homeopathically that would address the rosacea (which I clearly have and have been diagnosed with) and the sebhorreic dermatitis? I am upset about this condition plus the red bumps that I get from the rosacea because I have not been able to find any products to address redness and inflammation. Is there anything else? I dont have body dismorphic disorder, it is just upsetting to me because skin conditions have plagued me since I first went on accutane 30yrs ago.
 
mcwick94 last decade
Hi- just listen to nawaz and upload
picture. He is the one treating you
and the one qualified to treat you.

If you click on his name you will
see his profile and email- so you can
send the photo there if you don't want
it in the public forum.
[message edited by simone717 on Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:34:15 BST]
 
simone717 last decade
ok no problem. but still your occupation with your appearance is most likely body dysmorphia because of those 3 things you said

loosing my mind over my face
-retreated socially because of appearance
-it consumes me 24 hours a day
-DISGUST


some people get burned in an accident or whatever and become ugly looking but they dont stress about their appearance. they continue life normally. when you stress about it highly likel body dysmorphia.

but ok maybe you werent clear enough in your description and in presenting the problem. good luck with others
 
starface last decade
what I meant to say... if your medical condition is making you feel ugly or disgusted and became preoccupied with your appearance - then highly likely body dysmorphia.

If the stress is just about the medical condition and wanting to get rid of it quick without feelings of disgust than no body dysmorphia.
[message edited by starface on Wed, 11 Apr 2012 04:44:24 BST]
 
starface last decade
dr I'm wondering why i never heard back from you? Its been a month since I posted my questionnaire and didnt appreciate the posts regarding BDD. I have a real condition diangosed by dermatologists called rosacea. Its characterized by reddening and flushing of the skin and can be accompanied by sebhorreic dermatitis all of which I have. I have tons of clogged pores in my chin which are not evident in the picture but none the less are there. They are hard pieces of sebum that has solidified in each pore. I am so dry yet oily on top. please let me know what I can do and take for this condition
 
mcwick94 last decade
mcwick- what probably happened is
forum email sending to nawaz got
messed up-that happens sometimes.

Click on his name and send him an
email telling him you are on the forum.

It is a mechanical issue.

best,
simone
 
simone717 last decade

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