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Q: Strange Pimples Or Cold Sores - Total Mystery - Help!

asked by: nazz on January 13th, 2006

New User

Greetings all,

i have within the last six months developed a strange case of acne or cold sores. Or, something else :!:

i do not have acne on my face except for the rare pimple (which heals quickly), so its rather noticable when I have a new mark on my face.

These unidentified "sores" on my face started out as what appeared to be little pimples filled with pus. They are not clustered together, but appear sparsely on my face. (about 8 - 10 in total) they took a while to heal.

Upon healing, they have left ever-so-slight scarring. On a fairly regular basis, on *exactly* the same spot as the scarring, they appear again, not usually all of them at once however. They first become a little red and slightly pronounced. If squeezed, a small amount of pus comes out.

These little sores then dry-up and take longer than normal pimples to heal. There is a continuous slight peeling of the scar/skin on at least one of these healed sores.

This entire process repeats itself.

I very occasionally get what I know to be cold sores on the corners of my mouth. But since these little sores started six months ago I haven't had a cold sore on the corners of my mouth!

I *think* these sores respond well to zovirax cream, which would indicate that they are cold sores, but I can't be sure.

What on god's earth are they!? :?:

Replies(29)

steffers

replied on January 24th, 2006

New User

:oo
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hi nazz,
you won't beleive it but I have been suffering from the exact same problem as you it seems. I have tried everything and to no avail. I had up to about a year ago blemish free skin, but noticed that I was starting to get random marks that flared up almost overnight on the right hand side of my mouth. Some would have a little pus, some would disappear quickly only to come back later with no apparent reason. The top of the pimple was flaky, and they have left light scars under the skin. I have not had pain with them, but if I touch ( or pick !) one then the skin goes very red very quickly and the spot immediately gets bigger..Almost like blood vessels have broken under the skin.
They are not sore, but very unsightly and as soon as one seems to go another turns up...All around the mouth and chin area. I am going nuts about this as my diet is healthy, I have tried every cream known to man and no success....Please can anyone suggest anything?

Ps I also have a very dry and cracked lower lip, but this may not be related

sandyallen

replied on January 24th, 2006

Extremely eHealthy

Hi there! My suggestion is to talk to your pharmacist, that is what I do when I have problems such as this and they are very helpful!
Good luck!

GeocachingMom

replied on February 4th, 2006

New User

I have the same scourge on my face as you both described. When one area clears, another pops up. I get really stressed about it. I never had pimples as a young woman. Now i'm aging and should be worried about wrinkles but I have these sores, usually one, sometimes two but they are gross, larger than a pimple, and take a long time to heal.

I suppose they could be cold sores... I've even had one on my forehead. They are red and angry looking. When I attempt to pick one of the plugs out, it bleeds a lot. I try not to touch them b/c i'm sure it makes them worse but sometimes I take off the dead skin and even that will sometimes draw blood, just a small pin point area that will bleed a long time.

I've seen many dermatologists about it, they all give me the "drive-through" visit, and put me on antibiotics which don't help. I even saw 2 dermatologists at johns hopkins who did nothing but say I was self inflicting. I would never pick my face like this, I even asked them to do a scraping and they refused. They couldn't get me out of their office fast enough.

If you get a proper diagnosis, please share it and I will do the same.

sunnyhotpantz

replied on April 8th, 2006

New User

I'm 31 and all my life my skin has been ok. I'd occassionally get a pimple, but nothing like this. Mine are mainly on my chin, but i've had them other places. They are so hard! Sometimes there will be a little yellow head, but if I do try to pop it it just bleeds and a little pus comes out. Have any of you had them on your chin or around your mouth? It seems if I push my tounge inside my mouth behind where the bump is, it feels inflamed on the inside. I am so frustrated!

averiex

replied on April 27th, 2006

Experienced User

Re: Strange Pimples Or Cold Sores - Total Mystery - Help!

nazz wrote:

greetings all,

i have within the last six months developed a strange case of acne or cold sores. Or, something else :!:

i do not have acne on my face except for the rare pimple (which heals quickly), so its rather noticable when I have a new mark on my face.

These unidentified "sores" on my face started out as what appeared to be little pimples filled with pus. They are not clustered together, but appear sparsely on my face. (about 8 - 10 in total) they took a while to heal.

Upon healing, they have left ever-so-slight scarring. On a fairly regular basis, on *exactly* the same spot as the scarring, they appear again, not usually all of them at once however. They first become a little red and slightly pronounced. If squeezed, a small amount of pus comes out.

These little sores then dry-up and take longer than normal pimples to heal. There is a continuous slight peeling of the scar/skin on at least one of these healed sores.

This entire process repeats itself.

I very occasionally get what I know to be cold sores on the corners of my mouth. But since these little sores started six months ago I haven't had a cold sore on the corners of my mouth!

I *think* these sores respond well to zovirax cream, which would indicate that they are cold sores, but I can't be sure.

What on god's earth are they!? :?:

i am a chronic sufferer of coldsores, and it sounds like them simply because of the zovirax comment, and also because coldsores often appear in the same place because they are nerve-based sores. They pop up when something triggers you (ie: cold, stress, and even vitamin deficincy!).

My advice: buy a bottle of lysine. Take three of these pills a day; if you get diarrehea from the three, only take two. Cut down on chocolate, wheat, nuts, coconut, caffeine, brown rice, oatmeal, peanutbutter, seeds, and raisins. If they are coldsores, arginine is a vitamin that a coldsore needs to reproduce.. The lysine is an amino acid that the body doesn't make naturally but still needs -- it comes from milk, vegetables, etc.

What it also may sound like is impetigo. This is commonly found on the face, and looks a lot like coldsores or acne. I would vote moreso on this than coldsores. Check out a site about impetigo, and hope it helps!

david23447

replied on January 18th, 2009

New User

I have the same thing on my chin...

But unlike a cold sore they are smaller (pimple like) and don't blister like a cold sore. They also dont pop like a normal pimple and although it looks like you could squeeze the white out of the middle, very little comes out and they just turn very red like you've broken a blood vessle trying to sqeeze them... Very bizarre and I have been freaking out trying to figure out if it's herpes or not that is crawling down my chin and above my upper lip.

I recently had oral sex with a girl i've been dating briefly so I wonder what else it could be?? yeast? a rash? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

SU2012

replied on January 22nd, 2009

New User

not sure if this has anything to do with above posts....

Last week I noticed I had a pimple on my chin, about 1/2 an inch from my lip. Well a head formed and I popped it and it seemed like a normal pimple. Just a few days ago, the spot started becoming more enflamed and skin started peeling away around the edges of it.

After I wash my face everyday liquid starts coming out of it and eventually forms a crusty-ish looking/feeling scab.

I've never had a cold sore so I don't know if I have a cold sore or not. I'm 18, and have mild acne, so I don't know if this has anything to do with it. My mom suggested I put Releev on it in case it is a cold sore.

Anyone know what this could be?

lude

replied on March 25th, 2009

New User

same

same happening 2 me nover had acne now 31 its been 6 months. now today after a week free of the acne noticed about 7 small ones on my neck i think its migrating. help!

libs

replied on April 10th, 2009

New User

ARG HELP

Same exact thing. Mine have turned into larger sores,(maybe 3-4 mm in diameter, but oblong), probably because i pick them excessively. ( I am determined!)

These sores contain clusters of what look like tiny whiteheads or plugs or watever. I can't usually squeeze them out, (THOUGH I Try), and light prodding procures blood from around them.

They almost remind me of this planters wart I had one time on my foot. Little tendrils sparsely clustered in a sore that have really deep roots and dont go away or keep coming back.

Help! ...I think Im going to see a dermetologist

caedecus

replied on April 13th, 2009

New User

interesting ppls

i have a very similar thing. a skin sore, that forms a scab, and when i lift this (ok i know i shouldn't, but...) there is often little white 'root-like' structures attaches, and this takes for ever to heal
i can find zero about it on the net anywhwere
cheers
Dave

Jules4321

replied on April 18th, 2009

New User

comedomes

I have the exact same thing...takes months to heal and then it seems only after I pull each of these little plugs or cores out....it is oil that is clogged in the pore...I use needle nose tweezer...which I shouldn't do...but I just want them gone....I have tried leaveing them alone...that doesn't seem to help either...I have also tried every over the counter thing I could think of or was recommended.....still searching for a mircle cure...
anybody have any new ideas???
Jules

allers3290

replied on May 22nd, 2009

New User

i've got 'em too :(

Hi guys,

I have just what you all are talking about, and it is so frustrating when I wash my face and I mask and I spot treat them, and nothing has worked. They are sometimes painful because I try to pop them. I only have 2 bad ones, one on my cheek and one on my nose Sad

but I spot treat them everyday with alcohol to try and dry them up. I think it seems to be working, or at least causing them to be less irritating. If they continue, I'm definitely going to see my dermatologist!

micavalenlucia

replied on June 2nd, 2009

New User

hello everyone ive got them too and i cant find a solution any where it started off at first with one on my cheek i picked it a little pus came out but the spot didnt go away its just got bigger and now i have more little pimples in the same form around my mouth and chin i try to squeeze them but nothing comes out and they wont go away ive tried everything i clean my face very well in the morning and at night i dont know what else to do : (

jrob

replied on June 8th, 2009

New User

I have the same sore like bumps too!

WOW i didn't think anyone else suffered from the same thing. Mine are all around my nose, chin and cheeks. They come back in the same exact spots, over the existing scaring. I have been to dermatologists in DC, CT, PA, and NY and no one has been able to help me. I was diagnosed once with impetigo. I was given an antibiotic that worked but then it came back after a few months. It was gone for a while but started back up again recently but not it is worse. Does anyone else have the oozing/ weeping problem as well? I can't find anything online but this post. Someone PLEASE HELP!

petervan25

replied on July 1st, 2009

New User

For the past six months I've had the same exact thing. Why is it that no one, including dermitologists, has any idea what this is.

srd

replied on July 2nd, 2009

New User

I have this same problem. I started getting these sores on my chin when I was younger. For the longest time I did't get them on the chin and I started getting something similiar on my lip. The doctor said it was a cold sore and prescribed me Zovirax. It worked great and when I felt one coming up I just dabbed a little on and it went away quickly. Yesterday I thought I had a pimple coming in on my chin and didn't realize that it is what I used to get on my chin. I have tried the Zovirax on it. It seems to make it ooze a lot more and I think that it is helping but not as well as it did with what was on my lip. I would say to try cold sore medicine and see if it helps. I know from the past that I used to just pick it and get all the soft stuff off and it seemed to heal quicker but this still took several days to a week. I'm hoping this Zovirax clears it up sooner.

strdexviten

replied on July 15th, 2009

New User

well... i think you should all put aloe vera oil on them. i had them and treated them as i stated and they are now gone. the scarring was there for about a month afterwards but it has now vanished. hope this helps.

mweage402

replied on July 22nd, 2009

New User

ROUND SORE THAT BLEEDS ALOT

I HAVE HAD THESE SORES THAT BLEED ALOT IF PICDED.I HAVE FOUND THAT PUTTING ANTI FUNGAL CREAM ON THEN SEEMS TO HEAL THEM AND WHAT I DO IS TO PICK IT TO MAKE IT BLEED AND THEN PUT SMALL AMOUNT OF CREAM ON IT , WHICH WILL MAKE IT BLEED MORE,KEEP PLOTTING UNTIL BLEEDING STOPS AND YOU WILL SEE SORE DISAPEAR IN COUPLE OF DAYS.MAKE SURE NOT TO SPREAD,WASH AREA AFTER BLOTTING.IT WILL SPREAD

jcpowder

replied on July 22nd, 2009

New User

While I find it comforting that others share my problem, I'm disturbed that no one has found a solution. I have had these weeping sores on my chin (in the soul patch area) for 9 months now. I have gone to the doctor, thinking it was herpes, who informed me it was foliculitus(sp)that was continued by my shaving, and prescribed me an oral antibiotic. W/in 48 of STARTING the antibiotic, it goes away! But within 1 week of finishing, it comes right back. I have gone through 4 cycles of antibiotics...stopped shaving, used various creams...etc. I am 37, and suffered from acnes as a teen, but acutane took care of that. These are different. They see ooze, and get crusty...if one small one starts in the morning, it can be 10 times bigger in the afternoon, and trying to pop or drain just makes it worse. The only thing that I have found is Desitin (40%) at night, then the creamy (h20 based) during the day (it's not as obvious, blends a bit better). If I do this, without fail, it will keep it at bay, but if I miss ONE treatment, it comes back with a vengeance. I'll try the aloe vera oil(?) recommended by the prev. poster. Good luck all.

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