Another brief Mirvaso nightmare
I'm an Accutane-induced flusher from head to chest...tried a tiny bit of Mirvaso once at 8pm on Monday (just on my face) - worked amazingly well for 20 hours (both in combating redness and blocking flushing - I looked unnaturally pale, honestly, and tested it on a few beers in a fairly unfamiliar environment), and I've been experiencing extreme rebound flushing with a much, much lower threshold nonstop since it wore off 4pm on Tuesday (it's presently 51 hours since I first took it). Usually flushing lasts about 30 mins and dissipates into a red glow for me, but these rebound flushes last two to three hours, with dark outlines around my eyes the entire time. These rebound flushes provide enough body heat to to stand outside naked and comfortably in the winter, and they grow patch by patch where the Mirvaso was applied, until the whole face is redder than my worst flushes before.
Docs all want me to take either this or systemic vasoconstrictors (propranolol, etc.) non-stop in an effort to produce "vascular rest," but they all seem to have bad rebound effects.
Anyone know how long this is supposed to last? I was doing fine with my previous "leave it alone" technique, save for taking the occasional antihistamine before drinking or beta-blocker before a presentation, and I'd like to get back to that (especially since skin drugs [accutane] got me here in the first place).
Originally posted by Starlite
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Docs all want me to take either this or systemic vasoconstrictors (propranolol, etc.) non-stop in an effort to produce "vascular rest," but they all seem to have bad rebound effects.
Anyone know how long this is supposed to last? I was doing fine with my previous "leave it alone" technique, save for taking the occasional antihistamine before drinking or beta-blocker before a presentation, and I'd like to get back to that (especially since skin drugs [accutane] got me here in the first place).
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