EXCLUSIVE: 'I wake to pus-soaked sheets every morning, was housebound for six months and can’t get a job' – the agony of living with extreme cystic acne
BOILS which are constantly bursting, battles with depression, cruel comments from strangers and a struggle to work or even leave the house.
When Mariah's skin first flared, she tried to cover her spots with foundation, but soon the agonising pain stopped her even attempting that.When I did sleep, I’d wake up the next morning with blood and puss all over my pillow and bed sheet"All day I had an ongoing itchy, numb pain. If I would give in and itch, the acne would leak and send horrible nerve pain down my body."That was difficult because it’s leaky so I need to wash it off.
"If you couldn't see me and I was complaining about acne, you would think I'm being a drama queen, that it's nothing major because everyone gets it. They're large, pus-filled lumps that look similar to boils and carry the greatest risk of permanent scarring. The hairdresser, who developed the autoimmune inflammatory condition 15 years ago, has painful boil-like lesions all over her body.
"I couldn’t move, I had to hold my top apart from my skin, because it was just going to go everywhere. A couple of the girls ran and got me a tissue.
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