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Post by cantstoppikkin on Jan 13, 2003 23:55:17 GMT -5
Well, over the past, say, 5 days, I've been applying Neosporin to my, uhh hmm, 4 month old facial scabs, and let me tell you, they are healing!! I never even thought of doing this until the other day when I was browsing my medicine cabinet. My skin is actually soft and the scabs lightened up so fast! The spots are still healing cause, of course, I still pick at them, but it's more superficial peeling rather than scabs. And it's so much easier to cover up with makeup - they're barely noticable. I can even smile in front of others and not feel those hard crusts with every facial expression. The only downside is that the ointment is greasy, so it will clog pores and has caused a couple zits to erupt near the area, but I have found it to be an acceptable compromise. I feel so much happier about being able to look people in the eye. I hope someone out that can use this advise. Let me know if you do, please. Good luck to you all...
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Post by beensqueezin on Jan 15, 2003 0:18:01 GMT -5
I am happy to hear that you found a remedy. I guess that would be good because they need to be treated as wounds. I dug a big scab on my forhead about 2 weeks ago. I was trying to pick a tiny tiny tiny cyst with a pin and I kept squeezing it with my nails from every direction to get it out. Nothing came out but a buncha blood. I had a big scab from my nails tearing up my skin. Ii looked like a bruised piece of fruit. I used Eucerin and it helped heal it. Now I only have a red spot. Any healing oinment is going to do some justice. Like you said they can be pore clogging due to the mineral and petroleum based ingredients. But if you apply it with a Q tip it may only cover the neccesary areas.
Good luck, and I am happy to know you have the confidence to look at people in the eye. KEEP IT UP. Never put your head down!!
Angela
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Post by newpath on Apr 6, 2003 0:44:40 GMT -5
When you mentioned that the neosporin was greasy, I thought of when I use medicated chapstick around my nose at night when it is raw from a cold. In the morning, the skin is always softer, less painful, and more healed. I wonder if this would work to soften scabs on the face and assist in their healing, with less "grease" . . . Just a thought.  |
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Post by pepperonipizzaskin on Apr 14, 2003 18:00:36 GMT -5
Sigh... Believe it or not, I have been picking for over ten years, and today is the first time I thought to turn to the internet for help. I had no idea that picking is a problem I share with so many people! I decided to respond to this post because I have been using Neosporing for about a year. And it really does help with the sores left from picking. But I too find the oiliness to be a problem, so I don't apply it very often. Sometimes I think I look like more of a freak with my skin shiny from neosporin than when it's just red and irritated.
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Post by tonkajoe on Apr 30, 2003 23:46:27 GMT -5
try neosporin, after all it is an antiobiotic ointment. And in my life it must be the only thing I never tried, until recently after picking & picking & picking I'm looking around the house to find some miracle damn cure to apply to my face (I have applied everything from bleach to salt grains to laquer thinner)when i came across the neosporin, i used it & believe it or not it really does aid in healing much faster & preventing scars. I am applying a thin layer all over at night & during the day to "the spots"
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Post by Neurotica on Jun 15, 2003 1:24:59 GMT -5
I use Neosporin Plus Cream - it has a painkiller ingredient and isn't greasy the way the oinment is. The other day I had a sore on my leg that got all red and warm and I thought it was probably infected. So I put hydrogen peroxide on it and then followed that with Neosporin and a band-aid. It was practically healed after two days, but as soon as it stopped weeping and I could take the band-aid off, I started picking at it again. I'm hopeless.
Right now I've got two swollen lymph glands on the back of my skull and I know it's because I've been picking at my scalp more than ever lately. It's difficult to get the Neosporin on scalp sores because of my hair being so thick.
I also do this little "thing" where I pull at the roots of my hair with my fingernails. Not so much to pull it out, although some of it definitely comes out. I had never thought of it before, but could I also have trich?
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Post by christydiane on Jun 15, 2003 9:58:52 GMT -5
Try using triple antibiotic oinment mixed with hydrocortisone cream. the antibiotic oinment relieves the pain and starts the healing process and the hydrocortisone cream takes the redness/swelling out.
If I have a real bad picking episode I use an ice cold washcloth over the area-it really helps with the pain and swelling.
Once I had sores on my chin area which just didn't seem to heal. It was like the skin was sluffing off. (gross I know-sorry) But anyway, I went to the dermatologist (He knows about my csp) and he gave me a prescription for an antifungal cream. It cleared it up almost overnite. He said the chin is so close to the mouth which could cause a fungal infection.
Find a good dermatologist and tell him/her about your csp. Nothing to be ashamed of-I'm sure they have seen it before. You never know-he could give you a prescription that could clear things right up. I would have never guessed it was a fungal infection and I am a nurse.
Christine
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Post by christydiane on Jun 15, 2003 20:13:57 GMT -5
Just a little fyi-I am a nurse and often worked in the burn unit. We would treat many burns with bacitracin and gauze. It is as simple as that. When we pick a scab, it is the same as a burn-the skin is exposed.
Obviously you can't put gauze on your face or you would look like a mummy, but keep the bacitracin on at home or even when driving. (thats when I like to pick)
Christine
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Post by totalchaos on Jun 15, 2003 22:49:34 GMT -5
Hi, I"m new here - and I couldn't help but suggest something I just recently tried - either put a drop of visine on the zit/red spot, or put some visine on a cotton swab, and put in the freezer for at least 20 minutes. The visine helps "get the red out" - at least temporarily, and the ice helps bring any swelling down.
The neosporin works great for me - and although I'll use the cream version under makeup during the day, I find it's not as effective as the ointment, but I'll only use that at night.
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Post by Sharon Rushwoth on Sept 21, 2003 10:19:17 GMT -5
 Glad I found this link. I live in England and had not heard of neosporin, we don't have it here. So just been on a few websites and ordered 3 tubes - 1oz for $5.72...... so that seems brilliant if it works... Can't wait for it to come, intend to smother it all over and try get some healing done. Many thanks
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Post by NYCModelGirl on Sept 30, 2003 23:04:08 GMT -5
I just discovered this site... and I too did not realize so many of us had this problem. Ive had it for as long as I can remember and it really is crupling since I'm a professional model in NY and sadly my face sells. I have tried almost everything but recently tried putting a huge sign on my mirror and it helps. I am grateful for your support and am eager to help others as well with this problem. Much love to you all!!
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