Face Skin peels during period - anyone else??

Ja

Help! Over the past six months, I have this thing that happens during my period. Basically my skin on my face completely changes overnight starting with the first day of my cycle. And it’s HORRIBLE. The skin gets really tight and flaky with bumps underneath it. And over five days the skin just peels off and it’s really inflamed and awful. I literally will not wave the house because there’s no way to even put make up over it because the skin is peeling and any kind of foundation whether it’s liquid or powder just mixes with the flaking skin and makes it look worse. it doesn’t matter what I do with my diet or skin care. The same thing keeps happening every cycle. And the weird thing is that I have pretty decent skin most of the time and it’s usually very hydrated and I just use natural stuff on it to moisturize. I really don’t know what to do. Does this happen to anyone else? The only thing that I’ve read is that people can become allergic to their own progesterone if they have taken synthetic progesterone before, and that can possibly cause skin to peel. And during my pregnancy, I did have to take progesterone pills, and this symptom has only developed after pregnancy. I’m also wondering if being close to perimenopause could have anything to do with it because low estrogen can apparently cause dry skin (though this is much more than just “dry skin”)

Does anyone else know anything about this and if there’s anything I can do about it? The doctor just said “yeah hormones can make you break out” which isn’t even what’s happening!! And she was not helpful at all. I have an appointment with the dermatologist but it’s three months away.