Spots

[ML44]

Hello everyone,

I don’t know if anyone else has experienced this but I have always had very clear skin and I’m currently coming out in lots of spots all over my face and behind my ears and front and back of my neck. It’s minimal in comparison to other symptoms but some are painful and I’d like to resolve it.

I’m 29, on 125 of Levo (started on 25 in May and gradually gone up) Weekly b12 jabs started two weeks ago and 3 iron tablets daily started around six weeks ago.

Any advice or potential reasonings would be hugely appreciated.

Many thanks x

[NWA6]

These are what I’ve akways know as ‘shillcorns’ an Irish/colloquial term for a spot with no head that lingers for months. Probably like a boil, painful to touch and that’s how they’re usually found, you don’t notice them coming and then you rub it itch that area and realise there’s a shillcorn 😩

I mostly get them and normal spots when I’m undermedicated. They are one of my tell tell signs of hypo.

[SlowDragon Ambassador]

B12 and skin eruptions can be linked

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[ML44 in reply to SlowDragon]

Thank you for this. Is it a sign that I’m taking too much b12? Should I stop injections or is it just a side effect?

[Myro in reply to ML44]

Read about B12 overdose. And difference between cyanocobalamin and meticobalamin.

This your spots can be symptoms of being hipothyroidal or lack of iodine. Symptoms are very similar. Study them. If thyroid hormones are in normal range you have find cause. By increasing dose of thyroid hormone, lack of iodine can be hidden. Because it contain over 60% of iodine. But body will be on minimum of minimum of iodine.

Do all thiroid hormones tests. Iodine test too. Iodine is needed not only for producing thyroid hormones. Lack cause terrible conseqvences. Read about them. One of them are red spots. Red like meat. To 1 cm across. They dont bleed. I saw it. Ichy. It is not allergy! Use internet and YouTube.

[Priscilla17 in reply to Myro]

Do you have any internet links on these topics-very interesting!

[Myro in reply to Priscilla17]

Just type your symptoms. Faster way is to type names of hormones, and names of troubles or nauns like odine, thyroid gland, hypo and hyperthyroidism. Or put word symptoms to them. Don't buy and don't take anything. You have to study first all terminologi, levels, ratios ... Don't believe anything, anybody even yourself. Check, do tests and prove. Write down everything not to search 10 times for same question. Study every day, at same hour at same place. This is only way to manage levels. Start with hormones ...

[McPammy]

I get very similar spots when I’m under medicated. 12 years ago a Dr decided I needed a medication called Erythromycin for my skin complaint. At the same time I was diagnosed with Hashimotos and put on Levothyroxine. I remained on this antibiotic drug for 11 years. My skin never really got any better. I continued with this medication as i thought it might go worse. Previously, all my life I had very clear and hydrated skin. Then last year it was proven I was hardly converting T4 to active T3. As soon as I started T3 medication my skin became clear, hydrated and smooth. All those years on an antibiotic Erythromycin drug I didn’t need. I needed T3. I did have other issues more serious than my skin. But I am so pleased to have my skin back the way it use to be.

I’d get your T3 checked to make sure you are converting T4 Levothyroxine to T3 properly.

[ilyfunnybunny]

Acne became a problem for me for the first time in my life after I started 125mcg Synthroid post-TT.

However, it only got really bad when I was under-medicated, after doctors gradually reduced my dose to 100mcg based on TSH levels. So it could be that you are under-medicated.

Also, my naturopath has told me multiple times that she finds too much iron causes acne in her patients.

No idea how or why, though.

I can take up to 30mg iron a day without trouble, but higher than that I do start experiencing bizarre and unpleasant side effects. For me, that means joint pain, but it could be that your iron supplementation is making you prone to breakouts.

[humanbean]

I have to keep my serum vitamin B12 level very high. If I don't I end up with dreadful spots. I also seem to get spots when my B12 level is rising or falling quickly.

I have never personally known there to be a connection between taking iron supplements and spots.

[vocalEK]

Some decades ago I developed a boil in my pubic hair, near the top of my left thigh. Occasionally the leg opening of my panties would rub up against it and cause excruciating pain. I tried all kinds of things, without any success. The doctor would lance it (also excruciating), and then it would grow back after a few months. Finally I began exploring natural remedies and found out that turmeric (yes, that's right, the spice) was good for skin conditions. I began taking a capsule containing both turmeric and bromelain (an extract from pineapple, good for inflammation.) The boil went away and has not returned.

Now that I think back on it, this is also the time that my pubic hair began growing out of control and extended down my leg about 3-4 inches below my panty leg. My pubic hair became so bushy that I had to use an electric hair trimmer to eliminate the illusion that I was wearing a cod piece!. I also began growing chin and upper lip hairs. Eventually, my OB-GYN sent me for tests and observed that my estrogen levels were quite low. She put me on HRT. This did not correct the existing excess hair, but seems to halt the progress of the overgrowth.

PCOS had not been discovered yet but looking back, some of my symptoms were consistent with it. Ironically, though, I have heard PCOS described as "estrogen dominance." My estrogen levels were low. It seems to me that what I had was testosterone dominance. Teenage boys often develop nasty cases of acne once testosterone begins flowing through their body.

Off track. Anyway my recommendation would be to try turmeric capsules. As far as I know, they couldn't do any harm and might help.

[vocalEK in reply to vocalEK]

Just googled "testosterone PCOS" and found this article: helloclue.com/articles/cycl...