Ladies,
you are suffering form Multiple Miliary Osteoma Cutis as am I. This is a very frustrating disorder and I have tried laser removal (never again), retina-a (doesn't make a big difference) and manual excision by a doctor (best results). I'm desperate for a name of a doctor or esthetician that will remove as the plastic surgeon I saw said his practice is too busy for him to now do this type of procedure. Any success on removals or info would be appreciated. I believe my case is auto immune related. They seem to get multiple when I am run down.
Do any of you have fiberglass insulation in your attic, or have you recently had any ducts replaced? We had some dampers replaced in our ductwork, they got fiberglass all in the ductwork, and it spewed throughout our whole house. Problem was that we didn’t know this had happened. I started getting ill, felt like things were in my eyes, my skin got acne like lesions, and there were pieces of hard glass pieces embedded in my skin. We did testing in our house, and it was positive for high levels of fiberglass. If you turn a flashlight on your counters, floors, furniture, you will be able to see it. It is like smoke, it gets into everything and it is impossible to remove from any textile. We had to throw all fabric items away. All of our clothes, mattresses, everything fabric. Silica dust from fiberglass are completely invisible, and regular biopsies of the skin do not reveal them, you have to use a special microscopic procedure. Our contamination was so bad, we were ingesting it, breathing it, and it was penetrating our skin for 5 weeks before we realized what had happened. Find a lab that tests for it, or you can buy a kit online. You can take a piece of tape and and stick it all over your counter, furniture, whatever, put another piece of tape over it (do not touch the area with your fingers), then send it to a lab (ED Labs is one who does it). Must be tape, cannot be a swab test. I have thousands of pieces of silica (which is what fiberglass is made out of) in my skin. It may take years to all come out. It comes in waves, i won’t have any outbreaks for awhile and then bam, a whole area will start pushing the glass pit, it is awful when it happens on my face, it’s embarrassing, and the scars are pretty bad. I have also developed hyperkeratitis, where the skin will get thick and roll off in chunks, especially when in the shower or applying lotion. This is an immune response to the foreign bodies to try to push the silica out, an attempt by your body to remove it quickly. There is nothing a dermatologist can do to get it out. It has to happen on its own. When the glass comes out, it starts like a hard cyst below the skin, then it looks like a pimple, but becomes a lesion, it scabs, and it will stay like that for weeks. I wish I could post pics so you can see what it looks like to compare it to what is happening to all of you. No one ever thinks to check for things in the home like this! You are not crazy. Get your house tested for fiberglass!
I believe what we all have is likely caused by Cheyletiella or Neocheyletiella mites. Likely from a rabbit, dog, or cat. I have struggled with these for three years now. Family thinks I'm making mountains out of molehills, and that i am overly sensitive. I've done so much research, i probably know more than most people would ever want to know about parasitic mites. It all started when my stepson's mother got an indoor pet rabbit as an "emotional support animal". I see the same white sand on my family members, my eyes feel like there is sand constantly being sprinkled in them, my skin is insanely dry, despite copious amounts of moisturizing, i feel them moving around my scalp an pinpricks all over, mostly my scalp, ears, nose, and lower legs and feet. I purchased a microscope to look at the "sand" and dry skin, and have found they are tiny light orange mites. The orange mites are hard to find as they are buried in loads of skin flakes, but after spraying myself and my dog with topical ivermectin (intended for cattle and sheep), you will find them. The ivermectin causes them to move which you can definately feel as it basically makes them unable to stop moving and thus eventually die. They eat keratin, which is in skin, hair and nails. I am now giving my dog oral iver mectin every week and she has much less itching and her extreme "dandruff" is receding. Her nails were crumbly, split and weak, but with treatment are much healthier and stronger and look more normal under the microscope. I also notice less sand in my eyes and ears, less pin prics and less itchiness myself. I have been treating her for 3 weeks so far, but it can take months of treatment to get rid of them. My biggest problem now is the constant re-infestation from my 12 year old stepson, who carries the mites into our house every week from his mother's apartment. The rabbit lives in his bedroom, sleeps under or on his bed at his mother's. She is in denial and threatened to not allow him to come stay with us when i alerted her to the possibility that her rabbit is probobly an asymptomatic carrier of these mites. There is A LOT of misinformation about these mites on the internet and with veterinarians. I have yet to find a vet that knows anything about these mites, been to three, but can't afford any more. This is one of the best articles i have found on the subject. Look up "what's eating you? Cheyletiella Mites" by HH Reynolds. There is a free pdf available from the Semantic Scholar website.
You probably have high uric acid levels. Follow a low oxalate diet.
It’s basically a form of all-over-body gout.
Trust me. This is what all of these people that complain about morgellons and crystals penetrating their body parts have.
I discovered this after seeing every specialist on the planet and people looking at me as if I was on crack.
I began also drinking Braggs raw apple cider vinegar and go and buy concentrated red tart Cherry juice (made form montmorency and morello cherries)
It’s expensive but it works!!!
Working on a few theories
Elbows: Propped up on elbows on sandy beach?
Face: Exfoliation beads lodged in open acne to heal over and sit in skin?
Sjogrens: Dehydration?
Graves Disease: Autoimmune?
Osteoporosis: Taking Magnesium, Calcium or other bone supplements?
Medication: hypertension medication, hormonal pessaries?
Skin: Link to Psoriasis
Lifestyle: Alcohol, paracetamol?
I have the EXACT same thing, I'm 53 and has always had flawless skin. You described it perfectly, red bumps, very short, when there is a skin opening, there is no liquid or pots, just dry crystalline, glass sliver like "stuff" that comes out. I feel it under my skin and camn"push" it through tho get it out. On please share Judd you've found a cause ore treatment. It's painful every day
I can rule out your thoughts of it being caused by methanphetamines .... I have NEVER done drugs. I have never done anything illegal and I don't drink much or often. This has been happening for 10 years longer than I've been in pain clinic. I don't know where your thought process originated, but there has to be another common denominator for all of us that have this... I'm not sure what yet but we will figure it out...
For most of you if you have what you're describing as crystals/stones biopsied the lab can confirm the osteoma cutis diagnosis. The calcifications are classified as bone although they form in the dermis and are not near a bone.
I am 59 and have suffered with a very similar problem. It has spread since the initial very sore red lump on the upper chin under my lip. This cleared after months and now is in three spots of the chin that are painful and hard to hide.
I describe it as `tiny shards of glass`. Using a mirror outside in the sun once to look at them I literally saw a prism-like spectrum of colors on a tiny piece of this whatever it is. The skin oozes clear fluid which hardens shiny forming deep vertical and horizontal lines, mostly at a slight angle, making the patches appear very wrinkled, but it happened within a couple of days,not years. The dermatologist wouldn't let me tell him anything, said `this should take care of the crusts` and gave me Bactroban.
This has made me miserable.
Anything sound familiar to anyone?
So does this mean the drug Naproxen could alleviate symptoms as well? It won't hurt to take a small dose. I am going to experiment with both this and the anti-fungal route and see what we see.
they usually form after prolonged use of methamphetamines, if you take a break, it should clear up. Try not to use your needles, save them for your drugs instead. Keep those tips clean.
I recently was told of crystalline globs that can form under the skin, and when they break through they can be removed but if not, the doctor won't remove them due to risk of infection. The doctor didn't know of a cause, although he said it might be more common in diabetics. They occur in my eyelids and when they break through, they scratch my eyes. Very painful. The treatment so far has been heat pack for 5 minutes in morning and evening, to help break down the crystal structure, and daily eye drops. He said they normally break down and get reabsorbed or whatever, but that process could be impaired in a diabetic. Interesting condition. Maybe we can name it for the medical community, since we seem to know more about it than they do.
I have a similar sounding problem (sharp, embedded granules that I believe may be caused by cellulose in food. It seems to worsten when I eat shredded cheese, low fat ice-cream, but I am not certain of all potential causes. What are your thoughts? I find it incredibly frustrating that no one, including doctors, seem to know what it is.
These are definitely not whiteheads and the only connection with people who use meth is toluene used in the meth process causes crystals in the skin and morgellons patients biopsies have shown toluene to be present, a benzene derivative with the theory that an oil-eating bacteria has invaded the body and is producing plasticines. most people with these symptoms are not drug users so something else is causing the crystals, seeds, hairs etc to form from the skin. it could be in the gmo foods we are ingesting or could be related to these oil-eating bacteria used to clean up spills.
I'm 37 and have been dealing with a multitude of symptoms in addition to the crystals and sores. I found this site that I believe may be related. It's the best info on Morgellon's Disease I've found to date. It's the best answer I've found. There are many theories about it, but NO ONE here is crazy. The site is www.Morgellons.org It's the Charles Holman Foundation. Please let me know what you all think. I'm not giving up on this search. The antifungal cream does seem to help mine, but once I think they're healed, something flares them back up. I have figured out, in my case, sunlight, humidity, and dairy really **** them off. You'll read about B.spirochetes bacteria found on dairy cows. I wonder if it's related. I have degenerative spine disease, with spinal stenosis, EDS HM (Ehler-Danlos Syndrome type 3). It's a protein defect in the body's collagen. The fibers they found are made of melanin, collagen, and keratin. I had a punch biopsy which found a non-biological fiber of unrecognized origin. The End, no advice from Dermatologist after that. Docs tell me I'm crazy. Family has begun to come around and understand. Hang in there everyone, because none of us are alone.
I have a cure for whiteheads! The cure is obvious when you come to understand their cause isn’t acne, and the substance that fills whiteheads isn’t sebum or dead skin cells trapped in sebaceous glands, and it’s not a hereditary condition. It is a *FUNGAL* infection, and easily treated: (A) Every night, apply Tolnaftate 1% cream (trade name, Tinactin), an antifungal cream that treats ringworm and athlete's foot, available in every drugstore without a prescription. And/or, (B) Once or twice a day apply Castor Oil plus 2 drops each of these essential oils: Tea Tree, Neem, and Lavender. The oils are easily found in most health food stores, or online. Of course, many essential oils have anti-fungal properties, but these three were suggested to me, and they worked. Do google searches on Castor Oil and the essential oils, and you’ll discover many uses for them after your bumps clear up. I hope you will benefit from my happy experience! These two treatments rapidly cleared up more than 80% of my whiteheads - including big, conspicuous ones I’d had for 30 years. (I am in my 60s now.)
I should add that although they are often found in the genital region, they can also appear on the face - particularly around the eye
Could they be Fordyce spots? They can be grainy
I don't know what they are. I'm almost 45. I've had them since I started nursing my youngest son at birth... He's 21 now. It comes and goes over the years. I have it again and it's always on the left side of the left breast on the areola and that is it. They hurt severely ... I also have several chronic conditions that make me highly sensitive to the pain. I have to scrape them off after they work their way out of the skin... It's a major event and I admit I have been in tears from how much it hurts. My chronic conditions simplified I have 6 blown discs arthritis of the spine scholiosis sclerosis in the lower back 2 pinched nerves arachnoiditis fibro and the list goes on. Everything makes it harder to cope when trying to get rid of them... They have nothing else to do with the crystals but they affect how it affects me when it happens I can feel them growing now. Couldn't before. WHen my youngest son and my young daughter were nursing I was told not to use the left side when they were occurring as the crystals could affect the babies... I don't know what Millia is but I will be looking it up and would love to talk to others who deal with this as well.
I am 53 and have had one on my cheek near my nose and mouth. When I wash my face it feels like its cutting me. I have had a few milia that I removed myself with a needle. This one is bigger and the dermatologist said to me, its just a whitehead, go home and pop it. I didnt bother trying to argue that it was not that. So, I just went on for years, then decided to remove it myself, with a needle. I broke through the skin and it hurt and bled a lttle. It was srubborn. The next day I took a cotton ball with peroxide and rubbed it firmly and let it bubble a while. Then I took another cotton ball with a little rubbing alcohol and it came out. It had an irregular shape, like a tiny stone.
I too have been struggling with the grainy sand under my skin since I had chemo and radiation for breast cancer in 2006. All doctors I have seen say they are milia but they're not!! I am 65 and have been given a couple of options. (1) use retin-a as it will slowly slough off the skin and hopefully the "sand" and (2) have a procedure called a skin pin that takes off top layer and over time and a couple of these procedures done shows to be very promising. Also helps with acne scars. Also, not to leave out, I developed kidney stones around the same time, and they are made of calcium oxylate. All of this shows to me to be some kind of mineral problem in my body.
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I too have sharp, hexagonal, translucent crystals that break through my skin and quickly melt there after. When these attacks occur, if I have any wound that is scabbed over, these crystal structures appear in great concentration and can be seen with the naked eye embedded into the scab (when the scab is removed).
Now, I only have this condition occur under 1 extremely specific circumstance: When I am coming down off of IV Methamphetamine
I have verified that I am not hallucinating these symptoms by verifying visual symptoms with multiple sober individuals.
These crystals then start to come out of my tear ducts, my skin, my saliva glands, they are in my snot, and even in my ears as verified by collection and preservation in ear wax. They are sharp and some break the skin, others form a large red bump that looks like a pimple. You can feel the solid structure beneath the skin and sometime the structure will cause red lines in the skin in the exact width of the structure.
I've told a few doctors and they scoff at me even when I very clearly tell all of my lay recording (while on drugs...)
I believe these crystals coming out of several membranes are related to one of two things.
1) Uric/Urate Acid in extreme levels such that it is able to solidify and break the skin.
2) Possible adulterants in the Methamphetamine. My research says that the most likely crystal causing cutting agents are: Hi,
I signed up on here just to post to this thread.
I too have sharp, hexagonal, translucent crystals that break through my skin and quickly melt there after. When these attacks occur, if I have any wound that is scabbed over, these crystal structures appear in great concentration and can be seen with the naked eye embedded into the scab (when the scab is removed).
Now, I only have this condition occur under 1 extremely specific circumstance: When I am coming down off of IV Methamphetamine
I have verified that I am not hallucinating these symptoms by verifying visual symptoms with multiple sober individuals.
These crystals then start to come out of my tear ducts, my skin, my saliva glands, they are in my snot, and even in my ears as verified by collection and preservation in ear wax. They are sharp and some break the skin, others form a large red bump that looks like a pimple. You can feel the solid structure beneath the skin and sometime the structure will cause red lines in the skin in the exact width of the structure.
I've told a few doctors and they scoff at me even when I very clearly tell all of my lay recording (while on drugs...)
I believe these crystals coming out of several membranes are related to one of two things.
1) Uric/Urate Acid in extreme levels such that it is able to solidify and break the skin.
2) Possible adulterants in the Methamphetamine. My research says that the most likely crystal causing cutting (or production residue) agents are: Xanthine, Toulene, or Naphthalene
I think that in a condition of moderate to severe dehydration that my kidney is compromised and by some method, an abundance of crystals emerge from my skin.
There are several forum postings around the internet where people claim to have crystals coming out their [put whatever here: nose, ears, eyes, urine, skin, nail beds, etc] and this is especially true when you include 'methamphetamine' into the search.
There is not however even one medical journal about this. At the very least, I would like to see a study on why methamphetamine users report such a specific, but to the Medical Professionals, false or hallucinated symptoms.
Thanks for any insight any one may have.
I have the same problem on my chin for months..it's driving me nuts. I havnt been out in weeks confidence shot and I get no sleep over this.. from it growing membrain like over chin with a thick gel like substance filled with little balls that when hit hair turn into a ball of black hairs to mile long feathery tape like substance that literally unravels off my chin and shoots off my chin for hours. This **** is transparent cotony hair like substance that at some times showers my arm or legs coming out at a crazy rate. All of it is stuck and stitched in by these crystaly tooth pic like things that if you break turn into more immediately.i have spent hours pulling them out and thenot something moves around my chin covering and layering more on over and over and never ending. The doctor would even let me finish my sentence and acted like I was making it up. He then prescribed me my 5th antibiotic and told me to put hydrogen peroxide on it twice a day.. I'm like wtf!my parents thunk I'm hallucinating the whole thing and I'm at my wits end. If anybody knows a remedy to this madness that has completely taken over my life please email me immediately. It's quality of life at this point and I need help. My name is Alex I am 36..please help
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So fascinated to read all these comments, thought i was the only one suffering, the one i most relate to is 'ejny's comment, frustrated as going to party tomorrow, and they have caused small bumps under my eyes. can tell its crystals under each eye, yet cannot get them out.