Worms in the Face

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Hi All,  I dont know if anyone has come across this.  I have a worm infestation in my face.  They travel around under the skin leaving tracks and bursting holes into my skin.  they create glass like balls that split the skin open and move around my skin with ease. 

I first reported it 3 months ago and the doctors totally ignored me treating me for a secondary infection that was caused by open wounds in my face.  They have given me 4 courses of antibiotics treating the wrong infect but totally ignored waht I was telling ithem about the worms. 

The worms whatever they are are very sharp and whereever they travel through in my face the skin collapses, leaving it like plastercine and it causes tiny splinters that are as sharp as anything that inbed themselves in the inside and outside of my skin right down to the lowest skin level. My skin is also producing a clear sticky substance which feels like little shards of glass if I touch it.  All in all, it really couldnt be much worse except for the fact they have made a hole around my mouth which they can look out of.  I am totally sane!

I am in pieces.  I've been telling the doctors what it is and they have totally ignored me.  Even refusing to refer after an A & E i visited confirmed I needed to be referred as the lesions had been on my face for so long.   

I discovered I had private medical care through my company which now thank god means I've seen my first dermatologist.  He's referred me to another dermatlogist that apparently knows more about things in the skin who I'm yet to see.  Even though he's now put me in the right direction, I'm not convinced he was sure it is worms.  I can pull 1/2 inch worms out of my skin bit by bit.  They look like thread worms and never come out intact, you pull little bits off of them.  It leaves worm shape dents in my face and they feel like little match sticks under the skin.  Nobody is taking me seriously as people dont really get worms in the face. 

They have totally destroyed me skin and I have bad scaring.  I have never had acne and had no scaring.   This has all been caused in the last 3 months.  I dread to think how many are alive in there now they'v been left so long.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

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    imageimage this is what they look like on my face

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      DO your lesions have a tendency to come up in a pattern or curved line (as if you are doing "dot-to-dots"? Typically with a total of 4-6 lesions at a time? Do they also last for a long time? Like weeks? Do they feel like they are more than just skin deep? Like to your muscles? Do your symptoms get worse when its warm?

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      so crazy... this scaling between your eyebrows, That what you were referring to? I had first noticed a "film" spreading and no hair growing between my eyebrows. also noticed that area was puffy with flyid trapped beneath. I could see that it was getting extremely close to my eyes. And then it began burning and peeling dramatically. made the mistake of thinking I could simply peel away this dead skin, and there was no bleeding or pain, but after the fact it became completely inflamed and horrendous to look at. I swear there has not been a family vacation in 2 years, let alone going through daily life,where I have not been self-conscious about my face, and prior to that my skin was 98% perfect.

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    so whats the cure this is affecting my eyes very bad i only have one good eye anyway surely theres some kind of pill or something to kill them

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    hi I noticed that this was a pretty old post but I'm pretty much in the same boat as you were except mine has been upgraded to Titanic size. I wanted to know if you ever found out what it was and how you took care of it?

    see i not inly have these worms coming out of my face and ears, I just had a HUGE ONE evacuate my gum line. It seems there is nowhere on my body that is off limits to them. Other places I've seen them come out of or I took out of : feet, hands, arm, leg, bellybutton, boob, stool, every part of my vaginal area, this last time on my period they came out with the blood.

    when i first started seeing them my boyfriend (that I live with) swore he couldn't see anything (hes get bad eye) but he acted like I was seeing things. my mom accused me of using Meth again (clean 4yrs) she thought i was picking then sent me and my BF an article about MethMites. i did go to the Dr they also didn't seem to believe me. they did 💩 test (neg) &sent me home with cream for scabies,an antibiotic, and anti itch pills.

    that was August...these things are much bigger. i can't find anything on the Internet that looks anything like it. Nor can I find anything about worms where mine are.

    im hurting, im uncomfortably, completely grossed out, and REALLY SCARED. so if there's any Information you can provide i would really appreciate it

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      i know how you feel and the doctors say its all in my head too gave me scabies cream several times ive even taken a sample in and guess what the doctor just happens to drop it said i dont see anything this stuff is driving me out of my mine ive had this for almost 4 years now im to the point of just giving up

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      I am sorry! Interesting I saw a tiny mark near vagina when first happened! Could this be crazy STD?? I am 49 year old picky woman however at this point ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE!

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    this is whats coming out of my pores and sinusimageimageimage

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      You really should look at that one picture under a microscope. I had the same exact thing coming out of my skin and it ended up being tapeworm, larval tapeworm. You should be able to see a scolex and rostellar hooks some times and most times you can see suckers on one end. I had the same exact symptoms as you have and after five years and many many different treatments the only thing that worked was anti-parasitic medication and anti-fungal cream helps to release it from your skin once its dead.. I could be wrong but I don’t think I am… It’s worth it to check into it. If you don’t have a microscope, you can easily make one for your phone with a laser pointer buy taking it apart and getting the lens out. You can find out how to do it on YouTube.

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      stooks13- did you see my reply in your inbox?

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    Become well versed in crusted scabies, if it fits the bill. Crusted scabies is specific and reacts differently. It may be the cause of some of you not getting well. With crusted scabies the worms and bugs do everything they can to protect the young. I say that from observation and from what i have read. The parasites put an unbreakable substance over the offspring. These offspring will be safe from almost any poison. Look up medication used for killing crusted scabies and the intervals. Its something like twice a week for three weeks and the choice of medication varies. the sores on my face have been made by me and my parasites. they become large due to microscopic bugs vibrating away and eating, im going to as if my to doctor burn each sore off similar to burning cancer. . i want to kill the bugs in every sore. did you know that scabies comes from about 10 different kinds of bugs. my doctor is keeping crusted in mind. infact he is providing medication at intervals , .

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    I think it's some kind of tape worm. I have 2 cupshot water then I use 1 cup ebson salt n 1/2 of baking soda n watch. after I use a topical baby rash cream n it's getting better

    penicillin is the only other for inside the body. still dealing GOING on 3 YRS

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