u/Impressive_Title1228

Hey, I had a cyst form on my nose a few months ago that I’ve been treating with mupirocin for suspected staph. Since treating my nose, I’ve noticed that the cyst contained hundreds of dead blackheads and follicles. It’s reached a point to where it’s now weeping and pus is coming out during my current course of antibiotics, areas also affected are my cheeks, eyebrows, and scalp. Lots of ingrown hairs being emitted from basically every pore from my antibiotics which has my doctors viewing this as staph folliculitis.

I had a recent hair transplant done to my hairline and crown which may have aggravated whatever it condition I have which caused cysts to form around the transplanted areas. Hair growth was fine up until 2 weeks where I developed a sudden shock loss of hair in these areas where the cysts were originally during the initial months of my surgery with notable hair loss in just 2 days.

I’m at a loss. Did a full panel to test for any inflammatory disease with nothing coming back and vitals look fine. Nose is starting to peel away layers of infected skin from the antibiotics along with other areas of my face and scalp. Still very confused over everything considering that bumps I’ve had on my scalp for years are now being flattened from treatment.

Would like to hear any advice/opinions on this or if anyone has gone through something similar.

Has anyone else experienced something like this? After the most recent round of treatment — intranasal mupirocin, topical clindamycin/tretinoin, ketoconazole, and oral doxycycline — what appears to have been a 6-year staph carriage has resolved over the course of about a week. I originally was under the impression that this was just stubborn folliculitis until a pimple on my nose that I’ve had during the surgery became enlarged which led me to treating the staph infection.

During the active phase, I had drainage of a sebaceous cyst on my nose containing trichostasis spinulosa with hundreds of retained hairs, plus drainage of pus and dead follicles from the scalp and face. Bumps on the crown and along the hairline that had developed during the outbreak have flattened with treatment and warm compresses. Some of those flattened areas overlap with the transplanted hair, and I’m now seeing long shafts of hair (inches long) being extruded through what looks like devitalized skin in those spots. It requires a lot of scalp massaging and warm compresses.

These bumps on my head, I had thought were just part of my skull up until recently so it’s very alarming to see them smoothened out and the changes after the inflammation was gone are also very significant.

I’m pretty depressed about all of this, but physically after so much inflammation was drained feel better than I’ve felt in such a long period and am following up with my hair transplant team, but figured I’d post my story since my results up until a week ago were decent and wanted to hear what you guys think.

You can also see a follicle strand literally coming out of my nose, there were hundreds of them and it was the most disgusting thing I’ve ever experienced in my life.