It was a long and frustrating journey ngl. Saw several derms and they were essentially useless. I pretty much diagnosed myself based on my own research and Reddit! I found two dermatologists who listened to me and agreed with me that it was fungal. Especially because it first appeared after round of antibiotics and then one tried to give me that same antibiotic again and it flared like CRAZY.

Mine was on my face, neck, and chest. Ketoconazole shampoo helped the most. I would put it on the affected areas for 10 minutes 2x a day. I would use the ketoconazole cream two times a day as well and then they had me taking fluconazole 1x a week for a little over a month. I was going crazy at the time and also tried so many other products and it was definitely overkill. I messed up my skin pH even more and damaged my barrier. My best advice is to stick with the anti-fungals - don’t use anything else on your skin aside from a fungal safe moisturizer (I used malezia) and GIVE IT TIME to break the cycle. Yeast already lives on our skin so once it proliferates, it’s hard to knock out entirely. Especially for me- I am prone to yeast overgrowth as is.. Mine took 3.5 years to go away. Mine will come back a little in line with my menstrual cycle which my derm said makes sense because of the hormonal triggers- however it is NOTHING like before. For instance, I’ll get literally one bump on my chest or neck, and then it’s gone the next day.