I started taking adderall for ADD in June. Well around that time I started being more into playing with my hair and noticed I started getting bumps. Then I would pick at them and make them worse. Now I have 15 sores on my head and have tried everything to stop picking or heal them. My doctor wasn t very thurow and he just suggested folliculitis which I don t have the symptoms of it. So then I noticed I have a swollen lymph node on my right side of my neck and the back of my head and I have had them for about 2 months now. I am also ALWAYS tired but I can t sleep for nothing. The minute I go to lay down I am wide away until about 2 or 3 AM and I have to wake up at 6 for the day. Any suggestions what is going on?
Hi! Good morning. I am Chat Doctor answering your query. I would agree with your doctor that it could be infection of the hair follicles due to picking at them resulting in several of the infected bumps/sores in your scalp. The lymph nodes swelling on your neck might be due to the spread of the infection to the Chat Doctor.  The nodes would remain there till the sores were treated appropriately by antibiotics and anti-inflammatory along with proton pump inhibitor