Recurring Lip Infection, not just chapped but worse

For the past year i’ve been dealing with extreme chapped lips, swelling when i wake up in the morning, a c**p ton of red little dots, scabbed over puss, cuts in he corners of my mouth, huge pussing sores. I’m awake this morning with every single one of those symptoms. My parents and I are at a loss with what to do about this issue. I’m 16, so going to school this morning is not an option. I’ve been to 9 different doctors with 7 different prescriptions. The prescriptions work for about 3 weeks then it goes back to hell. I don’t know what do to do or who to go to now. The doctors need to know what this is!!!!!!

I'm am so sorry you are going through this, hang in there because it can be fixed...some of these things take months of treatment :( was one of your Rx Mupirocin Ointment? this was the only thing that worked for me and it still took weeks to finally go away, I have had a few outbreaks since then but starting applying AS SOON AS MY lips felt that weird kinda chapped that I know you know what I'm talking about. Good luck and try to lower your stressors because I think some of these flare ups are directly related to stress...it seems to be a pattern in my cases at the least.

I have it now and i was looking up how to get rid of it my dad always says it because I kiss girls and stuff but I don't do any of that and it's red crusty and I have a red ring around my lips HELP ME PLEASE!!!!!!!

Don't let your Dad detour you from kissing girls, that's just silly!! HOWEVER, depending on what this is it can be contagious so be cautious of these girls you are kissing :) If you read up on this thread you will see that this not only takes patience to get through but the proper diagnosis and medication are crucial, if it is herpes based you need something different than if it is a fungus. the FIRST thing you should do is go to a Dr., preferably a dermatologist and demand to get it swabbed to determine EXACTLY what it is. (sometimes they just say I think it is this try this medication...that's B.S. ) and then STAY ON TOP OF YOUR TREATMENT, if they say apply 50 times a day for 2 months....apply 50 times a day for 2 months, I was having issues for 6MONTHS :( :( but since then I have been mostly ok and have been diligent when I feel something strange or excessive chapping, I go right to treatment and it goes away within a few days or never really surfaces.

I have the same exact problem and have used and tried everything you said never get taken seriously by doctors I hate this

Dec14, 2017
I was recently treated...my doctor ran tests and my lips were so swollen and were flaky and if I smiled my lips would crack worse...there would even bee some clear liquid seeping through. This had gone on for several months. I was so embarrassed. It turns out that I just had a huge cold sore. I was in disbelief because it didn't even look like a cold sore. He just told me that most people have the hsv-1 and when your under stress that it can come out in different forms on your body, and it turns out that is what I had. I though I just had severely dry lips that wouldn't get hydrated. So with that he prescribed me Valtrex and it cleared up in 2 days after having this for months i finally have my lips back to normal...FINALLY...oh yeah I went to a skin dermatologist.

Hey did you find out what did the tiny holes were? I have the same but mine doesn't have pus and that part of the bottom lip feels rough

Yes, could that cause this?

Please keep me posted I've had this going on a month.

i had this on not only my lips but a very bad outbreak on my face. I went to doctor after doctor, to the ER and finally to a dermatologist who told me it was a yeast. its like a viral think or fungus?? This is not like the yeast infection women get its different however the treatment was the same. I was given the 3 day treatment of 3 pills that I think was called Diflucan? It worked fairly quickly not in 3 days but was cleared up completely in about 5 days. Since the 1st time I now get this on my lips about once every 4-6 months or so. I'm going to my DR to find any treatment I can do myself at home. if I am successful I'll share whatever treatment I do that works for me.

I read your situation above. I got something on my lips similar to what others are talking about.
I went to the Dermatologist and found it was a yeast. I was given Diflucan a 3 day treatment and it was completely gone within about 5 days.
I'm getting the same thing now about every 4-5 months. i'm going again to find out what kind of treatment I need to do to manage it.

okay, so I am having similar problems with my lips. I refuse to see doctors, because of past experiences & most honestly can't help me any better than i can help myself. I am left to figure this out myself. starting at the beginning, after washing my face with a brand new charcoal bar of soap called "say yes to tomatoes" that I have never bought before one night, i noticed mild swelling in my lips the next day. I also moisturized my body and face with the same almond oil I've had for almost a year. the swelling didn't bother me, it simply made my lips look fuller, I was even complimented lol. after my next shower with the same routine, I awoke to the next level of this swelling which now included microscopic dots covering the entirety of my lip skin. it was like i had washed my lips with sandpaper. this concerned me. I figured it was the new soap I was using, so of course, I stop using it. I am now washing my face with nothing & have also halted using almond oil. a week goes by & things seem to calm down. until I buy a test packet of raw almond butter. five to ten minutes later, my lips start swelling again. deducing this situation, it would seem I am having a mild allergic reaction to almonds. this is the beginning of hell. over the next few days, i awake to yellow-crusted lips. it seems my lips are oozing overnight. during these days, i am constantly reapplying the sweet orange cacao butter stick for relief.
might i remind y'all, this is not localized. it has been the entirety of my lips the whole time. there is no way this is hsv-1, i know what a cold sore is and i am sick of seeing this problem being the only thing i can find on the internet.
at this point, i am freaking the f**k out. i am in so much pain. i can hardly open my mouth to eat or speak. i begin to think it's because my animals sleep with me so i kick them out. nothing has changed, so i wonder if it's a bed bug problem & thus begin sleeping in a spare room that hasn't been touched much with new sheets, different pillow, no animals. i am crying the next day because my plan has worked, i am feeling and seeing relief. until a week later, and while my symptoms have decreased, i am still having issues with making it go away completely.
some days it is worse than others. i start to blame my cacao butter stick & switch to Vaseline. this helps with the pain and the nasty feeling i have on my lips, but i am still waking up with yellow crust. I'm not sure when the red ring formed on the outside of my mouth, or when the corners of my lips became chapped. it's like it began spreading to the outer layer of skin. this has gotten utterly f*****g embarrassing and traumatic. i am afraid to go to sleep and wake up with this god awful feeling. i hate eating, speaking, or being seen. finally, i do something smart & start holding a cold wet cloth over my mouth. this helps reduce swelling and i can manage to take small bites of food. i begin taking b12 supplements. I'm not sure why i didn't try this to begin with, but i pulled some aloe vera straight from my plants & let me tell youuuu, it looked f*****g horrible at first. i have also stopped all moisturizing. inflammation & constant puss completely disappeared & my lips are simply now extremely dry and chapped. extremely, to the point i can barely part my lips to speak sometimes. what makes it look so terrible is because my lips were basically open wounds, everything that was inflamed is now dark dried blood & scabbing. i constantly reapply the aloe vera over the next few days and my lips are finally healing!!! now the only thing that is bothering me are the corners of my mouth. i began dabbing my lips with a mixture of coconut & tea tree oil and the past two days have been amazing. my lips were finally pain free & i could feel the chapness was just healing scabs. yet, mid yesterday, my upper lip began itching after eating chips and salsa and peanut butter and honey.. once home yesterday afternoon, my upper lip began to swell again. i woke up this morning with very small amount of yellow crust. i am considering fasting for several days, maybe that will clear the infection? but i am pretty weak, i haven't had the energy to do anything these past two months and i don't want to deprive my body if it is vitamins and nutrients i am in need of. what i have is not viral. i have a bf and he isn't having this problem. it's obviously an autoimmune response to a mixture of my environment & certain foods, but why after all this time??? i found a forum with a comment, saying this is a form of strep bacteria in the gut, but isn't that contagious? i am really frustrated and i need someone to talk to.

I am actually going through sort of the same thing. What helps is to rub an ice cube around lips to basically numb it, then put vasaline or neosporin on cracks, then use okeef's lip ointnent on rest of lips. Repeat that at least 2-4 times a day. Also taking a hot shower or putting face over apot of boiling water, the steam will act as an astringent to basically replenish the lips and have them feeling less painful.

Thanks you for your post. I have tried the over the counter athletes foot cream and it has not helped much. I am going to try the vaginal yeast infection treatment. Hoping it is the answer.

The same thing is happening to me!!!