ok please help

helenoftroy1

I started my journey of health and fitness 15 months ago and I have been getting these weird spots on my face. Just my face. I have been to three nurses and two doctors (one of them a skin specialist) and none of them know what they are. I have read up as much as I can and everything seems to say eat healthy drink lots of water and I won't get them.

But that is where I am stumped. These spots have only come about SINCE I started eating healthy and drinking water. I have had seven in total and they are leaving scars. They never get a head, just go bumpy, scaley then disappear.

My question is "has anyone else experienced anything like this since they started their diet/healthy living lifestyle?

The scars and spots are really getting me down and sometimes I gotta be honest I do wonder whether to carry on with this healthy lifestyle. Maybe I'm destined to be one of life's fatties?!?!

Please help if you can

josiereside

Has anyone taken a biopsy of any of them?

helenoftroy1

No.
I literally just asked at my most recent appointment and they said "We'll try you with this other cream first"

This is my fourth cream, I have had antibiotics and fungal cream

singingsoprano

can you post a picture of them?

In answer to your question, no, I haven't had this happen to me.

Spanaval

A picture maybe?

Anything else in your routine change? New soap, perfume, laundry detergent...maybe some sort of allergy related thing? Can you at least make the scars disappear?

josiereside

No.
I literally just asked at my most recent appointment and they said "We'll try you with this other cream first"

This is my fourth cream, I have had antibiotics and fungal cream

I would ask my dermatologist to take a sample/biopsy of one to get a better diagnosis. Are they like pimples?? Are you exercising and do you wash you face immediately afterwards??? Could it be some form of acne??

petechiae

I know that's going to sound obvious, but have you tried some cream or treatment for your skin? I've heard that products with purcellin oil such as BioOil really help with skin irregularities. Another trick that I've heard is to cover your pillow with a sheet of satin when you go to sleep. It apparently helps with pimples and rashes.

Also, are you sure that you're getting enough nutrients? Maybe you should have a blood test done to make sure everything's okay on that side if not already done.

Don't give up this fight. It's more than possible that your skin issue is not related to your healthy habits. I can hardly imagine how it could be.

Take care and let us know how it goes, beautiful. xx

josiereside

One thing it could be, depending on their location, is perioral dermatitis. I have had this before but it does not come from eating healthy... It normally occurs around the sides of the nose or around the mouth. In my case it was on the sides of my nose. Kind of a red, itchy rash with bumps and would dry and then scale. I was given oral antibiotics to take for it. The creams did not work for me. Again, has nothing to do with diet.

MrsSWW

I feel for ya, HoT! You try and do right by your body and it's turning on you! Are you coming on Sunday? If so I'll talk to you then, but I think it might be something you're using on your face - not necessarily a new product, but perhaps ingredients that have changed or that you need to change to a product more appropriate for *ahem* your age. It's cruel when we have to chage from our regular face routine but it does happen to us all... X

helenoftroy1

ok here are some pictures but you can't see very well.

All your ideas are really helpful, definitely going to try that satin sheet on my pillow. I have been tested for diabetes but does anyone know if it could be chlorine as the only thin I have noticed is it's when I drink a lot of tap water?!?! But then i'm not 100% sure





and thank you once again everyone, this is a tough subject for me

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julepgirl

That looks a lot like patches I get on my arms and legs, and occasionally on my face or back too. They start as bumpy patches, like you said, then go scaley, then look like scar tissue for a while. Mine tend to be about the size of a dime or a touch smaller, but now and then I get a big one. The face ones tend to be on the apples of my cheeks or where my cheek meets my nose. All of them are places that I've gotten sunburnt over the course of my life. I suspect that they've started showing up as I've gotten older as a result of that sun damage.

I get them worse in the winter, and they seem to almost go away in the summer. I call them my dry patches, but they're not always in dry places. I've been told it's numular exema, though it was so long ago I can't remember how certain that doctor was. No cream wipes them out, but applying a good, thick moisturizer really regularly (like several times a day) makes them fade faster (I use Olay Regenerist Night - day or night - it's in a lavender/grey jar).

julepgirl

PS - though they do look like they've left scars, if I keep moisturizing, that look goes away and you can't tell where they were. I think that's just the last phase of their appearance.

carld256

Given that these patches only appeared since you changed your diet you might be allergic to something new that you're eating. Not saying that's what's going on, but it might be worth considering.

Denjo060

are you out in the sun more than usual? I get sun spots on my arms and back from the sun they look kinda like that. thye tell me Im allergic to the sun

helenoftroy1

I recently went to Africa and they went away a bit but then I realised it was because I got a tan. The doctor said sun might help them!!! I have been eating more chilli I think? Maybe I'll cut that out. Try some face cream and see how it
Goes but I swear if I get one more I will cry :-(

julepgirl

Yes, sun makes mine go away (or keeps them from showing up) too. I think we do have the same thing, whatever it is. The diet might be the cause, but it might also simply be a coincidence - I started getting them around age 30, how old are you? I have a similar complexion to yours, from what I can see. And if the onset was indeed caused by your change in diet, perhaps it's not what you *are* eating, but what you're not. Maybe you were consuming more fats and oils, and without them, these dry patches are going to rear their heads more easily.

If it comforts you, the winter I got married, I actually managed to almost completely avoid them by being obsessive about moisturizer. OH! And exfoliation, that helps too, whether you use a face wash that has little beads in it, or just use a buff-puff or other exfoliating sponge.

helenoftroy1

I'm 31!!! :-(

It does sound like the same thing. I have often thought maybe it's a vitamin I'm not getting anymore. I have never used face cream etc so maybe I'll give that a try, can't do any harm can it!!!

I do have a tendency towards dry rather than oily skin.

thank you so much for all your suggestions, it helps so much knowing I'm not alone in weird face conditions!

thank you

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Captain_Tightpants

If a doctor and a derm couldn't tell you what they were then I doubt anyone else on here will get much closer.

Hazarding a guess, however, since I'm sure those two checked for the more obvious explanations and found none, I would look to allergies as the potential culprit. Possibly related to something new you are doing or eating since you started your healthier eating, but it may also just be coincidental. If I were you I would ask the derm for a full allergy panel and also start keeping a journal of your habits and when you break out. Include food, drink, products, weather conditions, pollen counts and clothing. You might be lucky enough to spot a pattern.

If allergies turns out not to be the culprit, I would look into autoimmune disorders.