Can u e use the certain dri in all them places I think i'm going to try that product but for sensitive skin I'm scared that I will cause a boil but I have to try it because im using tissue right know but it don't hold me long enough I sweat and my underarms start to stink before lunch time and that sucks
Yes! Tanning works for me as well, and the pool (chlorine).
Being overweight has NOTHING to do with this disorder! I'm 28 and I've been suffering with this condition since I can remember which was about 13 years old I've never been overweight. And I was getting them way before I even became sexually active which immediately ruled out it being an std the problem for me tho was that my grandmother raised me and it was just a matter of me thinking I would be in trouble for this or scrutinized for something that I didn't do I had no clue what was going on so I never said anything to her as far as seeing a doctor back then as I got older and started going to the doc on my own I'd get the same answer even when I was pregnant both times the docs would say some people just get them and so that is what I was lead to believe tho that may be true I was left with the impression that there was nothing that I could do about them now I am FED UP I cannot take anymore of this my behind looks terrible my underarms look horrid and I've even gotten them on my lower legs and just recently a huge golf ball sized one on the back of my neck every single one wether it burst or not wether it's small or big leaves an ugly dark spot I had one about two years ago that went to the white meat of my left butt cheek the white meat still shows today with a dark ring around it it looks like a gunshot wound I have ones that are dormant and I have ones that are old but still continue to leak fluid when I don't even realize leaving my underwear and spots when I sit down and I don't even realize I'm so fed up with all these different creams soaps antibiotics different deodorants all kinds of stuff and it's expensive I recently started maderma but I came across this forum looking for an microdermabrasion peeling cream for the scars I wish these researchers could be more extensive with finding a cure for this like the way they work on and research cancer and other diseases this is no fun and even tho my boyfriend loves me to death to put up with this it's still extremely embarrassing I want to look good for him when I take my clothes off he doesn't seem to mind it but I'm self conscious about it I know he can look past it but that only speaks for what type of man he is a stand up guy but I really would like to have a clear buttocks and smooth underarms I'm so tired I don't know what to do I don't have anything helpful I'm just trying to find something anything that will help with these nasty scars and STOP COMPLETELY getting recurring boils I'm fed up
Try hot compress with clean cloth.. and apply honey afterwards. .
There is hope I to suffer from this condition and there is a doctor in beverly hills CA he specializes it this condition souly it has a 90% cure rate depending on what stage skin is in is how they will treat it, heres come contact info if you still need it.
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You are a life saver I'm getting exhausted with this and hate wearing shorts because of then I'm only 13 and I've had them for a few years my doctors told me my only option was surgery but thank to you km going to give this a try
I've been using Neutrogena Oil Free Acne Moiturizer with pink grapefruit and it's been working
To all you young people......I'm almost 56! Female. My mother was always "having something lanced" but she never shared what until I asked her when I was about 40. Obviously hereditary. Found out my younger sister and now my 29 year old daughter also having problems. Started with first boil like thing when I was 18' inner thigh it took weeks to heal. Still have the scar. Anyway after fighting this seemingly most of my life. I give you this advice. First, yes. Stay clean and dry. SMOKING makes it worse. ( didn't believe it until I quit for nine months) being overweight, smoking and stress makes breakouts worse. Use a good anti bacterial soap. DIAL has A good anti acne soap. (Sold at wal Mart. Next to acne products. Not in soap dept) I put CALAMINE. Lotion on regularly! Never hurts. I mean REGULARLY! Do not mash anything unless it's a blackhead. If you get everything out at one time, you are good. If you mash anything, and you don't get EVERYTHING out at one time......gonna come back three tiMes as bad. ONLY pop one that is painful with a sterile needle after you clean area thoroughly with alcohol. (Better and easier pop after soaking in warm salty water) If you pop, clean again with alcohol and apply anti biotic ointment and large bandaid. YOU DO NOT WANT A'S INFECTION I have found these larger painful ones are filled mostly with blood! Mostly this is just EMBARRASSING. Be up front with your partner. Let them know it's not contagious. I swear either men are blind or ......they just don't care! :-) lol. A GYN will never even mention it. None of mine ever have. Which I feel. Pissed off about. Oral antibiotics only help temporarily. and please tell your kids.......they need to know what's possible for them. Good luck. And like you, glad I'm not alone. Google wasnt here when I was your age.
I am just 12 years old and I have that I hate it because I always have to be self conscience that if i open my legs the well see all these black heads and white head and boils (which hurt the most) its sad to know that theres no cure and that I have to live with them all my life
I have the same thing and have had it for as long as I can remember. I'm 35 now and my breakouts have dropped to almost none. It's called folliculitis, my spelling might be wrong. I had to have 3, yes 3, lanced on my upper inner right thigh a few years ago. Hurt like hellll too. What am I doing? Well, a few things. 1, no panties. Once I stopped wearing them my breakouts were cut in half. 2, I wash with plain old ordinary Ivory bar soap. I don't even wash with feminine personal washes any more. 3, lots of stress reduction. I now do those adult coloring pages, drink more tea, read books that make me laugh, laughing more in general, I don't take things anywhere NEAR as seriously as I use to. 4, yes ladies, shaving yourself where your thighs meet your groin area is a huge help too, just keep it shaved. 5, don't wear tight bottoms, it rubs your skin causing the hair follicle to become agitated and inflamed. If you get a boil, hot moist compress. You may have to resoak a washcloth in hot water 2-3 times but let me tell you! Iodine never worked for me, scrubbing made it worse, scented body washes made them worse, feminine sprays make them worse. If you get sweaty down there then wear panties and a thin pad to absorb the moisture. Acne washes, acne wipes, acne lotions none if that c**p works. I've managed to get my stress down from 9/10 to 5/10 and its made a huge difference and I'm a single mom of a 17 year old boy. Don't stress if you have a boil pop up, no pun intended. Black salve, or drawing salve, can help some. Just clean and dry the area, put some salve on a band aid or bandage and apply to the boil and surrounding area before bed. I've had these boils, well, I think I was 5-6 when they first reared their ugly heads. My boyfriend thinks I'm beautiful no matter what. He didn't fall in love with boil free me, he fell in love with me. If you're single and looking make him wait a while then let him know. If he truly cares about you then they wont bother him one bit. It is more of a hereditary condition than anything else. Men get them too but because we as females stress more we get them more.
I'm not the person who asked hut this helped me!! Thank you!!
Wooow. I really wouldn't believe so many other people have it. And I'm only 14.. Been battling with these for maybe 4 or 3 years now. It makes me feel so self conscious. My my. I really hate myself for it. Not a day goes by that I don't get mad at myself for it. I'm so relieved reading this tho, I'm so happy I'm not the only one. Thank you for commenting. I'll definitely be trying some of these.
Hi, can you give me an update. How has it worked for you so far, with the thigh lift?.
I am 26 and Black British, I started with painful boils around my inner thighs on the top of my vulva and them in my sweat glands. It was horrific. The boils around my inner thighs/vulva stopped and died down when I stopped shaving. I would literally shave and then 'hello boil'. So I stopped and just kept everything trimmed down there. I've never tried waxing as I'm honestly scarred of what may happen because yes you guessed it. Constant unwavering Eczema to marry with this bullsh*t.
It probably at its worst for a solid year... probably more between 13-15? I was wearing mepore dressings everyday with pads of silver urgutol under them when I could get the prescription for them - because yes you guessed it almost constant open abscesses, and didn't that make P.E a joy. I found switching to powders and natural deodorants were better for me when I could use them and cut out aerosol sprays as well.
At 15/16 I got the sweat glands in the more severe and painful arm removed - I can't remember where the skin graft was taken from - but it worked and I have an interesting scar that has taken years to heal - and truthfully only within the past few years have become mobile and supple enough not to overly notice by touch - by sight you can't miss them.
The boils under my right arm closed up by themselves I think within 2-5 months of my operation. They didn't heal properly, but healed as - well - folds of skin of various thickness - because I also have the tendancy to keloid scars when my skin heals.
After I had recovered I was confronted with the option to remove the sweat glands to my right arm - because the threat would always be there. I ultimately decided not to because - I realised I would never know my own scent - weird and probably not completely true I would still sweat and have a scent - but it was one of the underlying reasons for me not having the sweat glands removed in my right armpit.
Its not all roses, and even now any pain or soreness in my armpit makes me nervous and worried (because that's how it always started). And I am only now able to lift up my right arm in a sleeveless top - because hey the left is easy a weird scar is a weird scar. But an weird armpit? That's unfortunate - truly. (Oh and not to mention how much I hate all deodorant adverts with their smooth unblemished un-lumpy underarms - ok not totally there yet.)
I do about twice a year get a boil that threatens to open or opens minimally in the crease of my upper thigh but I have not had a big relapse and so I count that a stubborn win.
Ironically what led me to this post was because I'm flighting another battle with my skin right now.
Blocked pores on my legs which I think is caused by the light emollient - I have been using for my Eczema. It occasionally causes terrifically painful whiteheads on my legs, but waist up no problem, I slather on what I need to - to function.
I find just using pure olive or avocado oil works well enough to keep my skin hydrated and with no blocked pores on my legs - but well ran out of that today used my failsafe emollient and hello blocked pores.
The point of my putting this long winded - piece of myself up - was to salute, commiserate, scream/cry and darkly chuckle along with the 222 - now 223 posts that are up here.
There's comfort or at least camaraderie in these posts, even if there are no clear solutions. What may work for one person sure as hell might not work for the other. But please don't despair if you're going through this. You're not alone.
It probably at its worst for a solid year... probably more between 13-15? I was wearing mepore dressings everyday with pads of silver urgutol under them when I could get the prescription for them - because yes you guessed it almost constant open abscesses, and didn't that make P.E a joy. I found switching to powders and natural deodorants were better for me when I could use them and cut out aerosol sprays as well.
At 15/16 I got the sweat glands in the more severe and painful arm removed - I can't remember where the skin graft was taken from - but it worked and I have an interesting scar that has taken years to heal - and truthfully only within the past few years have become mobile and supple enough not to overly notice by touch - by sight you can't miss them.
The boils under my right arm closed up by themselves I think within 2-5 months of my operation. They didn't heal properly, but healed as - well - folds of skin of various thickness - because I also have the tendancy to keloid scars when my skin heals.
After I had recovered I was confronted with the option to remove the sweat glands to my right arm - because the threat would always be there. I ultimately decided not to because - I realised I would never know my own scent - weird and probably not completely true I would still sweat and have a scent - but it was one of the underlying reasons for me not having the sweat glands removed in my right armpit.
Its not all roses, and even now any pain or soreness in my armpit makes me nervous and worried (because that's how it always started). And I am only now able to lift up my right arm in a sleeveless top - because hey the left is easy a weird scar is a weird scar. But an weird armpit? That's unfortunate - truly. (Oh and not to mention how much I hate all deodorant adverts with their smooth unblemished un-lumpy underarms - ok not totally there yet.)
I do about twice a year get a boil that threatens to open or opens minimally in the crease of my upper thigh but I have not had a big relapse and so I count that a stubborn win.
Ironically what led me to this post was because I'm flighting another battle with my skin right now.
Blocked pores on my legs which I think is caused by the light emollient - I have been using for my Eczema. It occasionally causes terrifically painful whiteheads on my legs, but waist up no problem, I slather on what I need to - to function.
I find just using pure olive or avocado oil works well enough to keep my skin hydrated and with no blocked pores on my legs - but well ran out of that today used my failsafe emollient and hello blocked pores.
The point of my putting this long winded - piece of myself up - was to salute, commiserate, scream/cry and darkly chuckle along with the 222 - now 223 posts that are up here.
There's comfort or at least camaraderie in these posts, even if there are no clear solutions. What may work for one person sure as hell might not work for the other. But please don't despair if you're going through this. You're not alone.
Oh mygo finally know I'm not eonl one i cant believe its a skin conditio ..l