I hope this is not too graphic, but I am curious if anyone else has this problem. Every once in awhile I'll get a (I think) cystic acne blemish on my chest and breasts. Usually I don't even notice it until I take off my clothes to get in the shower. Usually the ones on my breasts are white by the time I notice them. ICK! So, I mash them, cause I can't stand whiteheads, and clean them and put some medicine on them.
Also, all over my breasts (seems like every friggin pore!) I have these little hairs. They're fine, blonde hairs but along with the hair is a little white ... um... head? But its long like the hair. I have mashed them before many times. When I run my hand over my breasts, I can *feel* them, but they're tiny to the naked eye. I have even grabbed tweezers before and just pulled them out... It looks like a white thread type thing.. But its definitely not the hair... Any clues? They're not on my nipples or areolas that I've noticed, just on the skin...
TIA and so sorry if TMI. I swear I have no shame sometimes! haha
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i used to have really bad problems with acne on my chest shoulders and back. i guess it's ok to drain them if they bother you as long as you do put medicine on them. but instead of using shower soap on them, try using the face cleanser you would use for facial areas on the problem area. Neutrogena has an acne body wash which i've never used but i usually trust that brand anyways.
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OMG! I have the same thing, have had for a long time, I have no idea what/where/why they are there, I also have no idea how to make 'em go away. I do know I am so happy that you have described the thing that makes me crazy and i wont tell anyone about!!! I did start using St. Ives Medicated Apricot Scrub, while they haven't gone away totally, their are fewer of them!
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I'm so glad you asked about this! I get something that sounds ver similiar under my breasts. Looks more like tons of blocked pores than zits, but yes I also have pinched at them. And they do have little white 'hairs', but not like normal hair (almost like little threads), and you can pull them out. I have a white cat and for a while I was thinking, geez - I pull her hair off my clothes and everything, and now they're getting into my body too?
I asked my doctor about it at my last physical, and she told me it was common anywhere where you have "skin on skin" (i.e. my saggy boobs I guess, lol). She told me there's nothing you can do, and to try plain powder on them to see if it helps. Well, it didn't and I hate them! Think I will try the medicated scrub Rygirl mentioned as they do definitely have the look of a clogged pore (seems like lots of small bumps).
Anyway, just nice to know I'm not alone on this one....I always found it so strange. Thank you for sharing!!!
UGH! yes.. i know exactly what your talking about..
on my face, i have what look like blackheads, but i look closer and they are just little tinytiny hairs.. i use a tweezer to pull them out and can see the gunky stuff on them (i am guessing dirt and oil and blackhead causing stuff). *grumbles* of course there are a mixture of blackheads in with them..
but its the same thing on my chest and breast. its not just on the underneath part, but alllll around the breast area.
i've been using the St. Ives Apricot Scrub, but havent noticed much of a difference. maybe i am just not using it religiously enough. i will say that i LOVE it just because it does make me feel really soft and smooth and crubs off a lot of dead skin easily.
i have noticed that Queen Helene Mint Julep Masque does help to make my pores look smaller as well as make my skin feel more firm and healthy.
i've also found that Sally Hansen's Microwaveable Eyebrow Face & Lip Wax comes with these mini-tweezers that are absolutely wonderful! even though we have 5+ tweezers in the house, those are the ones that we always fight over. they have good grip, sharp, and do not need much pressure to use. personally, the wax itself was crap though. -l- it didnt seem to work at all for me.
Ugh! I have the same thing on my chest. I also get them on my upper back/shoulder area. I can't really see them, but I can feel them and they drive me insane! But the worst is on my forehead. I have these nasty bumps that I cannot leave alone! I am trying to keep myself from picking at them. I have been using an overnight blemish gel from Avon. It seems to help but they are still there.
i have it too all over my chest and back area, but i have more on the upper neck area, it isnt so big looks like small red dots from a distance, but sometimes i get really big ones on my back, especially if the weather is so hot and i sweat! i just scrub it with a loofah, i went to a dermatologist and she prescribed me some kind of a sulphur lotion, it worked but i dont like the smell, but when you stop applying it the acne comes back again, especially if i go to the beach and its really hot, when i come home those big red acne pops out on my chest and back and the area around my neck.
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I seriously don'tthink its acne...sounds just like me, if you are talking about the *underside* of youre breasts...tiny little white bumps..teh tiny white hairs....... the doctor told me its the stage in between serious flairs of my chronic skin yeast infection.. .. I have big saggy breasts...yes it coems from skin on skin.... she said I must daily hold them up, and after every shower, blow dry under there with a blow dryer....any moisture lets the yeast grow... when theres nothing there, I only have those bumps you have..but every now and then it will flare,..become stinky and bright bright red, painful, a rash and swollen..she gave ma prescription for nystatin and triamcinolone (same tube..steroid/anti fungal).... after drying, for prevention...you can use talc/baby powder...(do not use cornstarch powders..it increases fungal growth) but even better, would be Zeasorb AF powder..you can order it online, or I get it in the foot isle at walmart..it says its for athletes foot I think, but anyway it can be used anywhere, its got the same thing in yeast infection cream, in the most absorbant powder base (patented)..its got these special ingredients..100x more absorbant than talk. But its expensive...like 10 dollars for 2 ounces compared to like a dollar for a huge cannister of the babypowder..but the baby powder cant get *rid* of the yeast. You can get abigger thing of the zeasorb..with the 'af' (antifungal) for a lot cheaper, and its more absorbant..but I can only find that online. I'd be hesitant about using acne stuff under there, because that skin is *VERY* sensitive to anything you put on it..because it has a constant low grade inflammation/excess fungal growth on it..seriously.. you should try going to the dr about it
Zits (?) on chest and breasts... 
But the worst is on my forehead. I have these nasty bumps that I cannot leave alone! I am trying to keep myself from picking at them. I have been using an overnight blemish gel from Avon. It seems to help but they are still there. 
