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I don't get ache but I get hives randomly all the time.
I had no acne as a teen. But at 21 I was suddenly confounded by really inflamed outbreaks of what (it turned out incorrectly) was diagnosed as acne.
Specialist dermatologists got it wrong. Beauticians got it wrong. I spent too much money on useless creams! One day, while out shopping with my mum, I was trying on clothes in a boutique and noticed this outbreak on my legs, too.
Argh! It looked like chickenpox. So we quickly visited a nearby doctor who was the first to properly diagnose it.
It wasn't acne, and it wasn't an infection disease. It was a kind of eczema called pompholyx, and the elderly British GP showed me pictures in a big book of the stages: the red spots, filling up like pox, madly itchy, then coming to a head and weeping. Itching BTW, would result in infection and acne, but was not the cause.
The solution was an elimination diet, after which I stopped eating meat and dairy for a decade. I also had a lot of success preventing the irritation by using products with glycolic acid. My favourite in that time was from MD Formulations, it was amazing. Especially one little bottle of the lotion they had that worked like magic.
And just like that, it ended. But I looked like a leper for a whole year, it was pretty rubbish.
I had something similar with that. The culprit? The washing detergent called Tide. The itchiness was unreal.