Hey guys do I have never had skin problems been lucky enough to have clear skin . The paste few months that as changed I can't seem to stop getting cold sore and spots .
I love my markup but can't reall put any on . My lip is actually swollen and I have seen the Dr a few weeks ago she said it was stress and gave me some cream but they are still there. just wnidered if anyone else had the same problems and what did you use ???
Sharon Anne, I've been borderline type2 for a couple of years, thankfully now seemingly much improved, and I'm trying to do what I can to improve it further. Because I had been having regular blood tests to check on the effects of long term meds that I was on, the type2 was detected soon after it started. For several months prior to that, I had noticed that minor cuts had been taking longer to heal than usual, and I was also getting frequent itching on my legs, I now know that both of those can be symptoms of type2, as can be bladder infections, which I also got not long before being diagnosed, I also got an eye infection, and in the year following diagnosis I also briefly got dry flaking skin on my forehead and nose, then I got the eye infection again.
I was puzzled as to why I was suddenly getting all these problems, I now suspect that they may all have been related to the type2, and I now know that skin problems can also be a symptom of type2.
We all tend to ignore minor ailments, or to treat them as being insignificant, but I think that with type2 we have to be more aware and more active with such matters.
Some years ago my father got a small raised white spot on his face, which then changed into a ring shape and started to increase in diameter and to weep. He had been to the G.P. several times and been given cream, which didn't have any effect, eventually my mother lost her temper and insisted that he ask the G.P. for a referral to a dermatologist. The dermatologist immediately diagnosed it as the mildest form of skin cancer, which fortunately was very treatable.
I later looked it up in a home medical type book and the symptoms were so distinctive that it was immediately identifiable, and also it's cause is also very distinctive, it's caused by long term exposure to tropical sunlight, and my father had spent a lot of time in the tropics and it only appears about twenty years later, and that also matched my father's situation.
So the G.P. should have been able to diagnose it immediately, alternatively if he had looked up the symptoms the diagnosis would have been obvious.
After what happened to my father, we were less inclined to be fobbed off, so when my mother developed a raised skin blemish which swelled up and started to itch and to get very inflamed, I took her to the G.P. and asked for a referral to see a dermatologist, but that had a three month waiting list, so I asked for private treatment and she arranged an appointment with a local BUPA hospital, and it didn't cost very much, the dermatologist whom we saw was actually the also the NHS hospital dermatologist.
With G.P.'s we tend to assume that all such professional people are as fully competent and knowledgeable as they should be, but that isn't always the case. Even if they are reasonably competent General Practitioners are called General for a reason, they aren't specialists, and these type of supposed experts frequently have an aversion to admitting that they don't know something.
It's pretty obvious what you're G.P.'s behaviour and thinking has been, firstly she didn't know what the cause of the problem was, so basically she made an uninformed speculative guess that it was a minor and temporary ailment, and she padded that out with a catchall cause of being caused by stress, she then prescribed a generalised and non specific treatment, on the off chance that it might work.
People's lips don't swell up for no reason, you obviously need to see a specialist, and soon.
Contact your G.P. and ask for, ( and if necessary, insist on ), a referral to see a dermatologist, or if there is a walk in center in your local hospital, or a walk in clinic in your local area, go there, they may well give you a quick referral to see a dermatologist, and if you can't get a quick appointment to see a dermatologist, consider going private.
Not using makeup is definitely the correct thing to do, and you should also change to a non perfumed dermatalogicaly safe soap.
Get it seen to as quickly as possible, and by someone who has the relevant expertise, and good luck.
that wasn't meant for me but is great info, i piggy backed lol
