for five years i've been dealing with this, doctors treat you like a liar, dermatologists diagnose barely looking at you,and not really listening.
This is bazzar but pllleeeaasssee believe me i've had sebbaceous cysts before I know what they are but as soon as I mentioned this to my dermatologist he says I need accutane, he dosent seem to hear me when I say this is different! I have bumps and itchiness under the skin, it started 5 yrs ago, i've had swelling, it seems if I don't keep draining(which is not recommended but to keep me sane I do) these things it grows and grows. I have bumps full of hair and fibre that follow a path from my chin all the way up to my left eye, the inner layer of my eye has crossed over about five times I notice that happens when it is puffed up and I havent drained it in a while. I know this is gross please bare with me. I have white fibre that looks like cotton in large amounts come out of my face when i'm just washing or putting foundation on, long 1" or so ingrown hairs some white some black, hard white things that look like bone marrow but can be pulled apart and really are white fibres really compacted, for five years it just keeps coming, I filled up a pill bottle full of the stuff and taken pictures so I will be believed. My dermatologist has had me on all sorts of atibiotics, weak to strong none have any affect at all, he wants me to go on accutane because he says its cystic acne, I can't because I have bi-polar depression, he just does nitro sprays on my face once a week and seems to minimize what I say, ie my inner layer of eye skin covered my eye again told him he looked at me and said I suspect you touched something and touched your eye and it is irritated, I could of spit at him or punched him, i've had this for five years what does he think im stupid!!! My eye happens to be puffed up and when I put water and toner on it hairs and fibres come out so I know its aggrivated by this growth!! I put drops in and leave it and it goes away until the next time I dont drain it for a while. It is spreading---i suspect it's not acne at all perhaps it's some sort of bug that got in from my sebaceous cysts, which are gone now, when my skin is wet and i'm doing a peroxide scrub or general face scrup I can actually see the path its like a big long column or tape worm! But because you can't see this all the time(when im in the dermatologist office) they don't believe me. I'm sick of it and ready to take a knife to my face!!!! I dont go to the dermatologist anymore he upsets me and pushes my moods in to a bad direction, wich could actually turn fatal if it snowballs thats part of the reason I cant handle going in to see him anymore. In canada to get any tests done, particularily alberta its like pulling teeth! Help has anyone ever heard of this, and why is it growing when will it end! My only other option now I can see is to let it grow and go to the hospital when it's huge, signed I cant take it anymore. Sorry for the long message.