Sebaceous Hyperplasia
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Sun Apr 18, 2010 4:35 pm

Hello everyone,

I just found out from a dermatologist, that what I was told by my general practitioner were flat warts....are actually sebaceous hyperplasia.

She went at them with an ablative laser, which is great. I'll be excited to have smoother skin, as they were making my skin texture rough. But my question is...does anyone else here have this problem? And if so, what has worked to treat them?

I'd rather treat them myself than to go to the derm and have them immolated, if there is something I can do at home. I thought someone here might have some knowledge about this, this forum has been awesome for me for so many other things!

free skin care · Mon Apr 19, 2010 6:48 am

I had mine zapped by laser at my derms, but it didn't do anything. They are supposed to shrink in size or disappear but I wasn't impressed and it has been over 6 months.
I saw on a recent thread about accutane that their derm had given them low doses to treat the condition.

Sun May 09, 2010 8:03 pm

I'm sad to report that in every instance where the derm used the ablative laser on my sebaceous hyperplasia, the scabs fell off and they are /still/ there. So...in other words, I went through all of that, smelling my own flesh burning, etc. for nothing.

Back to square one. Anyone have any suggestions of things that have worked to self treat this confounded condition, other than accutane? I'd really like to avoid accutane, even at low levels.

free skin care · Mon May 10, 2010 7:59 am

I am actually going to try the low levels and see if that helps. I have 10-15, maybe more and the laser did nothing. The derm had no further recommendations than to try and re-laser.

free skin care · Mon May 10, 2010 10:09 am

I had a massive breakout a few years ago and my esthetician zapped them with a Vascutouch, which worked. Since then, I've had one or two appear in different areas, and treated them myself with 17% wart remover (salycilic acid) - dot the area before bedtime, peel it off the following morning, wait a couple of nights & repeat.

free skin care · Tue May 11, 2010 8:15 pm

I treated a couple I had with a single needle and then topped them off with copper peptides and they flattened out in a weeks time! They were nearly invisible in another weeks time.

I used a single needle from owndoc.com and jabbed just the SH as many times as I could and then applied the strongest CP on top - the Super Cop 2X. It stung going in and they were red and somewhat swollen for a few days, but to see them flatten out was very cool.

All I can see now after 4 wks is just a faint hint of a SH - and probably because I remember one being there. I will do another treatment just to cover my bases, but I believe these two are gone.

free skin care · Wed May 12, 2010 1:23 am

I've been trying to found out what a recurrent little lump on my nose is for ages and wonder whether this is the cause.

It is small (about 2mm diameter) and if I squeeze it, there is a little clear fluid inside. After doing this, it scabs up, then flattens right down. However, before too long, it re-appears exactly as before. This has gone on for a few years now and is driving me crazy.

Do you think it is SH, please?

As I live in the UK, our doctors don't tend to take anything like this seriously and it would be classed as wasting the doctor's time. The same goes for dermatologists - unless you pay an awful lot for a private consultation, and I doubt that the doctors would be willing to refer me for that in any case with just a little cyst thing.

I'm tempted to try foxe's CP treatment to see what happens.

free skin care · Wed May 12, 2010 4:14 am

Sorry Majorb I'm not any help to you. But I can't believe the Drs in the UK think you're wasting their time asking about a growth on your face. WTH? Is this something common in your country? A diagnosis isn't too much to ask for surely.

free skin care · Thu May 13, 2010 6:54 am

Mishey wrote:

Sorry Majorb I'm not any help to you. But I can't believe the Drs in the UK think you're wasting their time asking about a growth on your face. WTH? Is this something common in your country? A diagnosis isn't too much to ask for surely.

I haven't actually mentioned it to my doctor, but it would be classed as a cosmetic problem, rather than a health problem, so I'm not sure they'd be able to help, even if they wanted to. Over here, doctors and hospitals tend to be pushed way past over-capacity, so I'd feel awful about wasting their time, too.

However, if it was a suspicious growth which could possibly turn out to be something sinister, then I'd definitely have it checked out and I'm sure they'd try and help.

When those of us in the UK read about how many people in the US have such easy access to dermatologists, we tend to be amazed. It must be very nice!

free skin care · Thu May 13, 2010 7:35 am

I see. I'm in Australia and we usually pay a fair sum for a consult with a derm, but if we have health insurance a good amount is covered by them. And even if we don't have insurance medicare gives us a reasonable rebate anyway, so we're pretty lucky here really.

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