Jeanie...we are a lot alike..those things stuck on my neck and chest do the same thing...I had a time when Icame out of the hospital...it was ,as you said, a round hole...that was like a horrible bruise...open, runny, I used pure aloe vera juice that I bought at walmart..and then finally, when I went to dermatologist with my ear he told me to use my steroid ceam, , that he had fiven me for another type of alergic reaction. My skin is awful. When I went for the sleep apnea..I had those horrible places...she trimed up the round things trying to help it...jst overnight...mine were bad sores. Try patting cold aloe juice. I will be thinking of you. I also take cholesterol drugs...and some of them can mess you up. I sure hate to have to take all this stuff. Stella