u/sweetie_potatoo

Update on my extraction. Today is day 8. First photo is how they looked 8 hours after extracting and second photo was today.
One popped up on my pubic area and I got it out. I’ll keep taking them out as they come, so far I feel like I’m healing up well. Idk if the one from today was one I had missed because today I trimmed after weeks of not shaving and i noticed a bump.
Anyone have scar cream recs? Some you can’t even see anymore but I feel like the bigger ones may scar 🤔 I’m not sure though yet, it’s still early.

Another update for those that asked
Photo #1: this was taken yesterday (day 5 post self extraction) as you can see, I have one circled. Today I realized there was still apart of the core in there. I went swimming in a chlorine pool, I got out and noticed a very small white head, I picked it right off and sanitized my hands and the area before and after. Bled like hell. But Im almost 100% sure that was the very last one.
Photo #2: this was taken just now, I have bandaids covering the ones that are not fully scabbed over yet. As well as the one I finished extracting today. These fuckers are ruthless! But I think being in a chlorine pool helped push the rest of the core out bc it literally came out so easy.

So far, so good.

I just wanted to continue to post my self extraction journey for all who are interested, in my personal opinion, this is the only way to clear them up as fast as possible if you can’t get into a derm asap to get them removed. I’ve dealt with them for 3 months.
The first picture is when I noticed my molluscum (2 months ago), the second photo is after I pissed them off (inflamed and cores are ready to extract), the 3rd photo was taken 8 hours after extraction. The 4th photo is what my wounds look like today (5 days later). I’m Healing up incredible, no new bumps since. If you’re thinking about self extracting— do it. I’ve posted how I did it in this group, if you need help finding my post, the link to my post is in the comments. 🙏💙 best of luck.

EDIT: I did not know I had molluscum up until a couple weeks ago. That first photo was taken on May 29th when I noticed they were spreading. The second photo was taken July 29th (one month later) after finding this forum. For 2 days, I dabbed apple cider vinegar on them to piss them off, then applied pimple patches for 2 days straight. Once I knew they were angry and could see the core, I started my extraction process. Before extraction, I took a Dead Sea salt bath (but a shower will do just fine) because it helped make the core more noticeable and easy to extract.

Is this the beginning of the end they speak of? Starting to look dried out, some became flat but still red as you can see. Is this it?? 🙏 😩

After 2 mo I finally went to urgent care to get an opinion, I’ve been under the impression I had molluscum because I’ve tried to pop one and it came out in a pearl like clump then bled like crazy. I’ve been treating it as if it was molluscum.. doing pimple patches, apple cider vinegar, mud masks, Dead Sea baths, so on and so forth. At the urgent care she prescribed me and antibacterial cream and an antibiotic. The first picture is how it started and the second picture is how it looks right now, I’ve been purposely trying to piss it off to get my immune system to notice and attack it. What do you think? Folliculitis or Molluscum?

Hi. For about a month, I’ve been thinking I had molluscum. Because when I pop these they come out like a hard pearl. What started as this, now turned into this (see pictures). Because Ive been treating it as molluscum and based on my knowledge of it, I know you want to encourage information so that your immune system could take care of it, but I went to the walk-in today and was told it’s folliculitis. So I’m wondering, did you start off the way mine looks? I have it all around my bikini area and two more on my genital area. I know people with molluscum often get misdiagnosed as folliculitis. I went to an urgent care and she put me on an antibacterial cream as well as antibiotic. So, how did your folliculitis begin? Did it look similar to my first picture? Thanks!!!

Got this off of Amazon today. It’ll arrive tonight. Anyone have luck with red light therapy?
I’ve been spending hundreds on shit for this. UGH!!!

Hi. Has anyone tried this liquid bandage? My current regimen I’m trying is applying a mud clay mixture for about a half an hour at night, after 30 min I wash it off, then dab the area ( groin, legs and bikini area ) with apple cider vinegar and letting it dry, after that i put pimple patches over at night. I do not wash off the apple cider vinegar.

I Might try the mud clay mask, wash w/ water, Apple cider, liquid bandage and then applying pimple patches at night on top of the liquid bandage. This shit is killing me.

Here are products I have NOT used yet but will be if this doesn’t work.

- Gotucream (I have it coming in the mail at some point this week)
- tea tree oil pimple patches (I’ve just been using the regular ones because the tea tree ones will arrive tonight)
- Differin Gel ( I used it once but stopped because I have sunburn and didn’t want to flare anything up)

Please if anyone has tried any of these, let me know how they worked for you and what your routine was. I didn’t even realize o had this the past two months, this entire time I thought these were pimples or ingrown hairs. Yes, I was confused when pus didn’t come out but instead it was a hard lump, and I was even more confused when the bleeding wouldn’t stop for a while after extraction— but my dumb ass just carried on and thought it would go away. No one talks about this virus enough, most things you read online say “it’s harmless and will go away” no one talks about how depressing it makes you feel, how insecure you feel in your own body, how you don’t attend certain events or have to turn down physical contact. I’m already a germophobe. This made me 100 times worse. My hands are so dry from the constant washing. I work with kids, I think that’s how I got it. I know once your immune system kicks in it won’t come back— but fuck, this feels like it’s taking over my entire life.

***EDIT: I’ve also been using peach slices breakout banisher body wash. Every single shower I take (everyday sometimes even twice in the shower) ***

I have this virus on my groin and bikini line, it seems a like it’s spreading down my thighs. I’m so desperate for a cure. Anyone tried any of these products? I tried pimple patches the last 24 hours. Now today i did a mix of differin gel and diaper rash cream and bandaged everything up. I haven’t tried the compound W liquid yet.