I’m generically prone to sebaceous cysts: subcutaneous nodules under my skin that periodically get infected and swell up and get red and sore, then either just go away quietly or burst and drain and then fade.
Well, I have a mirror-image matched pair of sites where they’ve started cropping up and reoccurring within the last two years. On either side of my nose, just outside the cheek creases and just below the eye orbits.
Is there anything going on in that part of the anatomy that would cause recurrent inflammations, or anything in that zone that recurrent inflammations would be a trouble-sign for? I know my upper cuspid teeth roots are pretty close to that area, but my teeth don’t hurt, I’m not prone to teeth infection problems, and it would have to be both of them which would be somewhat weird. Lymph nodes? Some other fluid subdermal highway?
I don’t like them reoccurring. I dose them with clindamycin ointment and they eventually go away (and might have anyhow) but they keep returning.
My dentist once told me, while treating me for an abscess that was draining in my gum, that he had seen incidents of abscesses draining on the face via a sinus. Because it was draining it didn’t cause me any pain. Here is what I discovered today checking out what he said 30 or 40 years later:
Dental sinus
Although it doesn’t really sound like what you have.
Yeah, doesn’t quite sound like the same phenomenon but might be a clue, so thanks.
Yeah… partner allthegood asked if the bottoms of my glasses could be rubbing there.
They don’t. I have two pair: computer glasses and everything-else glasses. The everything-else glasses don’t come anywhere close; the computer glasses at the bottom edges are close but don’t touch, and I’d notice if they occasionally did, and they don’t. They do come down that far down my face but they’re too far out in front to ever touch the skin.
This may not be suitable for FQ, but I was informed that the oiliest part of your face is exactly that, running to the side of the nostrils. I, of course, have no cite.
I was told that instead of using lip-ice to “moisturise” your lips (I never do *) you should wipe that area with your fingers and apply that oil to your lips.
* naturally, I have no cite for this either, but I have a belief that lip-ice and similar products are addictive, in that once you start using them you need to continue, else your lips become dry and flaky.
But do you put your hands there because of the space?
Get you some Sea breeze or witch hazel and cotton balls. Clean the area a couple times a day. Don’t rub too hard it may irritate.
If it does, stop using.
Since this involves a real world medical issue, let’s move this to IMHO (from FQ).
A friend has severe rosacea. He often looks like what the OP described.