hilly

hi girls, since coming off the pill 2 and a half yrs ago i have had little tiny spots on my upper arms, when i rub my hand over them they are really bumpy. i have just been sitting down stairs thinking about all my pcos symptoms and then i thought" i wonder whether this is one too" as i never had them before!
does anyone else have this or is it just me being strange ! LOL
hope you are all well
love h xxxxxxxxx

katiwren

Hilly,

I don't really have this problem, but my 16 year old sis does. She always has, from a small child. It really started to bug her about a year ago. A friend pointed it out to her in front of a whole group at church and she's a been a little embarassed about it since. She did ask a doc about it recently. There was a specific name for it, but I don't remember what. She was given some lotion that cleared it up. I don't know what it was called. I'll try to remember to ask next time I talk to her. After that, she was just told to keep the area really well moisturised (my dad's kids all inherited his dry skin) and exfoliate gently about once a week. So far, it seems to be working.

When my skin gets really dry, I do sometimes seem to start getting this, but a few days of extra attention to moisturising and exfoliating seems to do it. Lush's Buffy the Backside Slayer works for me.

Hope this helps.

--KT

Mazlynn

Seen a bit lately - on another thread and a discussion with a friend who has it - about keratosispilaris, which causes upper arm irritation and bumps - maybe check out this site and see if it sounds familiar? http://www.keratosispilaris.org./index.htm

Think the thread was somewhere in the acne forum, where do you have acne poll if I remember correctly, if you want to check it out.

Good luck!

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I'm back! Had lots of problems around 2002, gave up persuing treatment when Drs had wait and see attitude. I now have an endo - yay! On yasmin. Also diagnosed with slight hypothyroid - on low dose synthroid.