Help, getting really down about Molluscum

Thank you for taking time to reply I will have a look at that.

I think its the not knowing how long you will have it that messes with you the most.

I agree; the uncertainty is a bit rough. Mine came in waves ... and over time the waves were further and further apart and smaller and smaller in number.

The best recipe that I can recommend is live the absolute healthiest lifestyle you can imagine. Awesome food, tons of fluids, no alcohol/drugs/smoking, lots of sleep and everything that you can do to boost your immune system. You know how they say that drinking tons of water will help clear up your skin? Drink lots of water throughout the day. I had seemingly very good luck with Cimitidine/Tagamet that has some off label anti viral properties in high dosage. I also wonder if the antivirals used for Herpes would be useful against MC. The antivirals are general purpose and the MC and herpes viruses are pretty close together on the family tree.

What is TCP?

It is an antiseptic liquid commonly applied to the skin using cotton pads, or can be gargled in the mouth for ulcers and other damage. It stings a bit, putting TCP on molluscum, but I found it helped erradicate my spots a little faster.

Ohhh - ok I might try that next. Are you doing the scalpels yourself - or did you have a doctor do them?

From everything that I've read (which is A LOT at this point), "years" is the exception - not the rule. Particularly if you are actively trying to get rid of the mollescum. A lot of mollescum takes so long to go away because people are drinking, eating bad, not sleeping, not carefully watching the bumps, not treating them everyday, etc. I think with your strategy - they will go away soon. The duct tape and bandaids irritated my skin too. I had an allergic reaction to the adhesive. What I'm doing now is using a gentle surgical tape for sensitive skin that I bought at the store . But I don't use it every day - maybe once every couple of days. It seems to be helping - maybe try that instead o f the duct tape?

Im having to have a break from treatment as I seem to have an infection on the skin its so red and swollen doctors given me fungal cream.

Its very annoying as all the molluscum seem to be healing or dissapearing and now this. Its quite itchy. Hopefully wont have another outbreak in the meantime.

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It was definitely the duct tape as in all the places id been using it but strange it suddenly reacted to it.

Ill get some of the gentle tape for when my skin has healed a bit.

I have a healthy lifestyle, and I agree that 'years' is the extreme and not the typical normal length of time for MC to disappear, but I fear mine will soon return if I shave or even use a towel for all parts of my body again. Like Gemma and Linda you have both said, it can feel like molluscum is for life.

how is your skin doing? I've been soaking cotton balls in ACV and then taping them on my bumps for about 8 hours at a time. That's working really well. A lot of the bumps are turning black which I read means that they are dying. Again, I am just using the gentle surgical tape which isn't causing any reactions like the bandaids and duct tape did.

Hi. Ive been doing nothing at the moment to try and let the skin recover. It does look alot better everywhere but there are one or two bumps im not sure if they are coming or going so will visit the clinic Friday see what they think

I do think I've been treating stuff which wasn't molluscum going a bit silly making it worse than it is.

I will get some acv and surgical tape today so its ready to use but wait to see what they say Friday.

Glad its working for you. Have new ones stopped popping up?

Unfortunately, yes. New mollescum have popped up but they are very small. I've got cotton ball soaked in ACV on them right now so fingers crossed! the other ones are all REALLY red or black and irritated. I red that this is a good sign but it doesn't look great. Hope your skin heals up soon so you can get back to meds. I'm in the same boat with the small ones- sometimes it's really hard to tell what is and isn't mollescum!

Sounds like its working on them which, is good.

Its roughly every three weeks new ones pop up just when I think ive won.

I went to the clinic today and they sprayed a couple and said the others dint look like them she even spotted some I hadnt seen as in an awkward place shall we say so glad I went.

I shall keep at it wont give up yet.

feeling pretty down again as it seems that every time I think they are going away, new ones pop up. The skin around them is so destroyed from the medication and ACV. The other day I was literally bleeding. Everything is horribly red and irritated. I don't know what to do next. I've got an appointment on Wednesday for the liquid nitrogen. Fingers crossed that does something. How is yours going?

Oh so sorry to hear this that sounds so painful.

I think the best thing you can do now is let your skin heal and try to stop putting anything on it.

After having a break from tea tree and tape my skin is looking so much better I can see whats what now. I also really think I had over done it and was treating spots which were actually folliculitis or eczema from the irritation making it worse. It was really hard telling myself to stop it as I was getting paranoid. I even got stung by a stinger when jogging (nothing major happens a lot) but my thigh had a massive reaction to that just like with the tape so I dont think my skin is all better yet!

I have had definitely two old ones come back and I froze them myself today. So at the moment I cant see anymore but chances are another one will come back but I will only be freezing and when im really sure.

Let me know what they said and how you got on.

Wow - you are down to very few!! That is amazing. Keeping my fingers crossed that yours will be gone soon. You are giving me hope!! It also sounds like you have sensitive skin - I do as well. I wonder if people that get mollescum tend to have sensitive skin. What are you using to freeze them off yourself?

I went to the doctor yesterday to get mine frozen off. I was so bumped because I went from having only 3 or 4 left, to suddenly getting about 10 of them pop up. So the doctor was very aggressive with the liquid nitrogen and got everything that she thought could be one. So I am very thankful for that and she was very understanding. She expects that we'll have to do one more freezing session in a few weeks. I am traveling in Africa all of November so that will make my healing very difficult, but I will do my best. Thanks for being such a good support for me! It has been helping.

I used a freeze kit from boots chemist supposed to be for warts and verrucas but same family. Dread to think how much ive spent on stuff over the months haha.

Glad she was kind and hope she got them all.

Sounds amazing travelling around Africa! Best not to think about them while your away and just enjoy yourself.

Ill be going back to get a couple froze properly this week as couple in a place I dont want to freeze myself as its an awkward place they are also mega itchy driving me insane.

Have a wonderful time if dont hear from you before and let me know how your bumps go

hi, I just wanted to give you an update. 2 weeks ago I got most of them frozen off. That went really well and now most of them are gone. Unfortunately a couple more popped up between my buttocks. I put some apple cider vinegar on those (which has always worked well), and my skin freaked out. One of them got infected and turned into an ulcer! I went to urgent care and the doctor told me to completely stop all mollescum treatment and just give my skin time to recover. It turned out I had a yeast infection on my skin from all the different treatments. So now I'm off mollescum treatment and just using zinc cream to help the ulcer heal, with yeast cream to help that. Kind of a crazy couple of weeks! The ulcer is looking better. I still have 3 or 4 mollescum bumps but my doctor said she thinks the mollescum is on it's way out. Anyway, that's where I'm at with it all now. How is yours looking?

Oh dear you have been through the wars but it sounds like we're definitely going through the same thing

I tried to use a tiny bit if tea tree oil the other week and my skin infection came back. Thats ok now with the cream i used before. Ive also had to have a couple of thrush tablets so im guessing its a yeast thing too.

One tiny one popped up last weekend so i froze it straight away.

At this precise moment in time I can only see scaring from the freezing last week and nothing coming back underneath.

Im not getting excited yet, dont want to get hopes up as we know they pop up over night and it can take a few weeks to show. Im giving it a month of no shows before im happy and once the clinic says they cant see anything.

So as it sounds like your a few weeks behind me so maybe we will both be able to celebrate soon 😀🤞

I know your away but get those last few froze as soon as you can again its definitely the way forward for us now