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Unilateral facial swelling - pls help
Autoimmune Diseases | Last Active: Nov 10, 2022 | Replies (18)Comment receiving replies
I have dealt with this on and off for 4 years. Dermatologist had me on prednisone, got Prednisone rosacea. Use all hypoallergenic products. Face swells, hot, red blotches eyes, nose chin, neck. Like a sunburn, extra dry. Cream makes it worse. only relief is ice paks. Prednisone shots helped once , not anymore. Keflex helped once and not anymore. No answers from anyone. I am currently looking into hereditary angioadema. Has anyone experienced this?
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About two weeks ago I woke up to both sides of my lower face swollen. A week after that, again on both sides of my neck near the shoulders, I had large bulges .I thought all this strange that these all appeared at the same time. CT scan addresses the check swelling and shoulder/neck swelling as Buccal Fat Pads. Although my doctor thought the latter were encapsulated fatty tumors or cysts. The only remedy is surgical removal, needle aspiration or liposuction . Since I am now seeing similar situations on this site, can I attribute this to Long Covid? I will see if they go down or just disappear as they appeared.
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Hi @fisherslady and welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. You'll see that I moved your post to a discussion talking about facial swelling.
There is also another discussion going on here: Facial Swelling - no diagnosis after 2 years:https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/facial-swelling-no-diagnosis-after-2-years/
Are you currently keeping a log of when it flares up? Have you noticed any consistencies?