Painful chin nodules... ongoing

Full Hysterectomy 2007
Vivelle dot

No other symptoms, much to complain about except for these nodules that keep showing up on my chin, sometimes two or three of them as when one is getting ready to go away sometimes it does and sometimes another shows up in its place. They have no pus, although they look like they do, but the main thing is pain/sometimes tingling pain and some itching and UGLY chin. I've never suffered acne before; had some pimples PMS time, but nothing much, these are horrid!

I've tried Spironolactone and some improvement noted but terrible lack of libido from the Spironolactone so I'd rather have the noduels and sex, instead of beautiful chin and no libido. I've tried anitbiotics with no change. Right now there are three on my face and they usually form halfway between my lip and the end of my chin.

I don't know where else to turn as my dermatologist will only prescribe the Spironolactone as the cure and its not!

Anyone else have this problem???

I was just thinking... If men had this problem it would have been solved for us already!

~I

Darn my chin hurts.

I have noticed that since my surgery and hrt (vivelle dot) that I get 2 on either side of my chin. They seem like zits with nothing inside. Breakouts on the chin is hormonal (I am a massage therapist and also do facials).

Me too. I notice it more when estrogen levels are low or testosterone levels are high.

Yes! PSharky you are exactly right describing them! How can we possibly get control of these?

Well, I think I have things under control and the answer was way too easy. I went to the Clinique counter at Macy's and picked up the "acne kit" which is ...(I'm not going to spell it correctly) Salicylic acid in a foaming cleanser and then the same stuff in a clear exfoliating cleanser and then the simple Benzoyle Peroxide lotion. Use these three products twice a day... face tingles for about an hour afterward and I have seen improvement in the first day. The inflammation has decreased, pain is decreasing and the older nodules are flattening out and starting to go away.

Clinique supposedly has higher levels of active ingredients than the Proactive products and I thought I was wasting my money, but its working. I have suffered with this for months and months and months.

Still, I made an appointment with a new GYN for evaluation of my hormones, I think the Vivelle dot should be replaced on the morning of the third day, which would make it two patches every six days, not seven as prescribed. I'm certain there is a drop in the hormone on that last day as I was going 3 1/2 days but feeling in a mental fog that last day, so now with the new schedule, I believe the hormone levels will be more constant, mood improved and face remain clear instead of my chin reacting to the change in levels.

Meanwhile, the Clinique products will kill all the bacteria on the skin, cause my skin cells to turn over more rapidly and heal up. Whew!

I hope this helps some of you ladies,
~I