Very Oily Skin post RARP?

Posted by jayhall @jayhall, Feb 10 3:53pm

I'm 8-9 months post RARP and in the past few weeks my skin, body wide, has become very oily to the point I'm considering going to my PCP with it. I have not changed my diet, no new RX's, no new skin treatments, no new soaps etc. The worst places are my face and neck and I have to blot my face several times a day. My fore head is the worse. There's a slick of oil from my hair line to my eye brows that I can actually see in the mirror. When I change clothes I can see oily places on my clothes.

Anyone else have skin changes like this post RARP. I have never been this oily in my life.

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topf | @topf | Feb 10 6:13pm

7 months post RARP. No problems here

retireditguy | @retireditguy | Feb 10 8:55pm

I'm 20 months post RARP and I haven't noticed that. Nor had I heard of that, but I asked Gemini and it said oily skin might be a secondary effect from rising testosterone levels post prostatectomy. Here's the link to the study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9679896/
Best wishes.

surftohealth88 | @surftohealth88 | Feb 10 9:47pm

No changes here.

survivor5280 | @survivor5280 | Feb 11 10:56am

Almost 13 months post RARP and no conditions like that for me either. My only lingering issue really is a suture still working it's way out that gets super itchy but I think that's about done now.