Hello @wolfofnostreet welcome to our community, we hope you feel comfortable and join our initiatives.
In this opportunity you present us with experiences associated with your skin conditions. You have taken on a great challenge, which sometimes happens to some of us. You present us with a detailed account of the conditions manifested in your skin. You bring us many elements for discussion and learning, I will describe them in detail:
-Knowing our skin, is paramount but we must go further, as you have done and educate yourself with specialized help of the triggers, stimulants of your skin conditions. for us physicians, we value greatly, when our patients become familiar with their condition. To treat and manage properly and achieve success, teamwork is peremptory. Physician-patient and when necessary family members. Congratulations on this.
-Hyperglycemia (elevation of glycemia "sugar" levels), as a systemic affectation can express itself in skin conditions in a great variety of forms. These expressions will be considerably reduced by controlling glycemia levels.
-Cystic acne, is a representation of multiple existing clinical variants with a multiplicity of causes and triggers. For this, your orientator and guide is your doctor, who will guide and lead you, in what is best for you and your health. There are conditions that appear as acute processes, with resolution at the integrus and reach there. Others, maybe it is your case, become chronic, so they must have permanent care and attention. I differ a little from you, perhaps obfuscated by the health situation, you refer it that way but food is essential to control acne, in your case it must be associated with other measures.
-As you well refer it in opportunities our organism, surprises us with its manifestations, which give us the impression of doing what it pleases. Many times we are ourselves with our actions, the stimulants of these responses but we do not know it. We must be accusious and observant, we must become our own investigators. Remember that you will be the guide and the one who will refer to the doctor through the anamnesis (interrogation that the doctor makes to the patient to obtain information of his ailments) what you feel and suffer through signs and symptoms. If your contribution is adequate, the diagnosis will be more accurate and consistent.
-It is good that you bring stress and lack of restful sleep into the discussion. Because our skin also needs to sleep and rest, to be free of anxieties. How the skin speaks to us, before these triggers in many ways as for example our skin can be visualized as withered, sad, dehydrated, can be conditioners of early appearance of wrinkles, sagging and the engine to stimulate the onset of skin diseases controlled.
-Regarding hidradenitis suppurativa (painful bumps, which can drain fluid and pus), it is a controllable and avoidable condition, where prevention is the first line.
I congratulate you, for your interest and commitment, in becoming familiar with and practicing prevention. You practice teamwork and not self-medication.
I close my intervention with your final sentence, inspiring, full of attitude and aptitude:
I try to eat healthy, exercise, reduce stress, wear lose-fitting clothes and be happy no matter what my skin looks like
Until another time.
Happy week to you and yours.