JS wrote:Still not good.
I keep thinking my condition has reached it's crescendo, but time and time again it becomes badly broken out again. I've treated with these creams in the most efficient and meticulous way possible. I've used up almost 5 months worth of treatment and I'm waiting for a response from Walter to make another order. I still have faith, but unless I clear and can slow down to a maintenance treatment rate soon, I can't afford this anymore. The treatment is expensive and I also have to pay for the antibiotics I use in an 'attempt' to keep my face presentable while mites are killed. I'm not looking forward to another spring and summer of skin problems holding me back, my scars are ugly enough on their own, so I hope the DS treatments can rid my of constant acne and cysts very soon.
I'd be interested in what stromectol could do for me in addition to the cream treatments.
I believe thoroughly that my problems stem from mite populations and an allergy to, but for whatever reason I am a really stubborn case. How am I to get stromectol from a doctor when the doctor doesn't want to consider skin reactions to mites?
JS,
I see Walter has commented on stromectol and I think you already have my editorial on Ivermectin (stromectol )
http://www.rosaceans.com/html/ivermectin.html
I personally wouldn't try it since I don't like taking prescription drugs unless it is absolutely necessary. The risks associated prescription drugs sometimes outweigh the benefits and meditating on the benefit/risk ratio is important.
The thing about rosacea is that there really hasn't ever been enough research on this disease, due to the fact that people in general, like your family, as well as many professionals in the medical and scientific community do not take this disease seriously. This may be because since this is not a life threatening disease and feel that the emotional stress added to having rosacea is not important. However, more and more rosaceans are speaking up and explaining to family, friends, health care professionals and others that this disease does deserve to be taken seriously and that rosaceans suffer emotional and mental anguish.
One of the problems, due to a lack of research, is that rosacea is misdiagnosed and this problem is not uncommon. The other factor is that rosacea can be present with other skin conditions. Please see my page
on this >
http://www.rosaceans.com/html/misdiagnosed.html
The NRS did one good thing by classifying rosacea into four classifications and several variants. The problem with this is most rosaceans have no clue what classification or variant of rosacea they have since many dermatologists ignore the NRS or have never read the classification or variants of rosacea. At any rate, if you ask a rosacean what classification or variant they have they usually haven't a clue.
According to Michael Detmar, M.D., in 2003, only one paper was published for every 144,000 rosacea patients in the United States, compared to a 1-to-11 ratio for melanoma and 1 to 4,900 for psoriasis. This gives you an idea of the lack of research. And research on demodex mites has been only a tiny percentage of the total research on rosacea, so you can see why most doctors dismiss demodex mites as a factor in rosacea or acne. I have tried to do something about this by forming the first non profit for rosacea established by rosaceans for rosaceans. We are still in the infancy stage and need not only volunteers but donations. For more info
go to >
http://www.irosacea.org
My suggestion is to get an accurate diagnosis of your rosacea. You may be dealing with demodex and somthing else as well. I urge you to continue with the Z cream and other demodex solutions products since you may find in the long term they will help. But if you continue to have problems, my only other suggestion is stop eating any sugar in your diet at all because no matter what skin condition you have, eating sugar is like pouring gasoline on a fire, and will only aggravate your skin condition.
I have a thirty day diet that has helped hundreds of rosaceans get a handle on their rosacea. I still need to be on this diet along with the Z cream to control my rosacea. Thirty days on my diet will cause no harm since it is only thirty days to see if it works for you. After the thirty days you can return to your favorite eating program or eat whatever you want.
It is only an experiment to see if diet can control your rosacea. For more
info >
http://www.rosacea-diet.com/html/diet.html
--Marla
