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Are your older spots flattening? I'd say if they are then that's a good sign and it's just gonna take awhile for your skin to heal. If you're anything like me, then any cut or scrape leaves a red mark for quite awhile after it's healed, I assume this works the same way.Quote:
Originally Posted by WhyAlwaysMe
I didn't have many bumps before starting soolantra but the noticeable bump I had before starting is still there completely. Persistent redness is my main problem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dabbido
Now all I seem to have is the redness still and more bumps on my face, noticeably the chin.
Hello whyalwaysme
Sounds like you have same redness issue as I have. My cheeks are usually always red and the rest of my face will follow suit during flushes. I'm talking fire engine red. Daily I get people asking me if I'm ok and if I got too much sun. Got old about 15 years ago. Dermatolgist has only seen 3 people in 30 years with this disorder. Awesome. ☹️ The routine I have started over the course of the last 3 weeks is first time I'm seeing results. I having been using the neutrogena soap and jojoba oil, and baby powder for 3 weeks or so. The soolantra I've only been doing for a week. I really think all of these things are working together to break the cycle of constant inflammation and are giving my skin time to heal itself. My face feels and looks different now. Each day it is a little better than the last. Please if you are dealing with redness, try this routine. It is the only thing that has ever worked like this for me. I had tried everything else and had given up trying to fix this 30 other times. I'm trying to not be too optimistic because I know how many other times things looked promising and then failed. This time seems different though
My entire face is just red. I don't have certain areas that cool off or whatever. It's just a constant red face. The bumps have gotten noticably bad. If they don't go away within the next two weeks and I see no improvement I'll probably have to stop with Soolantra.
The only thing that's ever worked at removing the redness is mirvaso/onreltea. But like everyone else that has the obvious side effect of rebound flushing that makes it MUCH worse afterwards so it is obviously not a reasonable solution. I'm afraid laser might be my only way out to directly combat the blood vessels in my face. Cry:
It just sucks because I'm 20 years old and starting college soon and I feel like I shouldn't have to deal with this disease that has already damaged my skin in what seems like unreversable ways.
Why is Soolantra anti-inflammatory, exactly?
Just going off what the doctor told me about the soolantra being an anti inflammatory. It seems to be working for me. I have really good days like this past Saturday and then days where I seem to be taking one step back like today. I did the laser about 8 years ago. I believe I did 2 or 3 treatments. It was extremely painful since it targets the blood vessels, which are oversized in my face. I can tolerate quite a bit and I literally couldn't let them do another pulse on my nose. Felt like a heavy duty sling shot when the laser went off. If you have just broken blood vessels it prob works great. It did clear up some of the more noticeable blood vessels but didn't do much to stop my flushes.
100 % tea tree oil on my bumps seems to make them go away. I only applied it to a few of the bigger bumps that developed and it helped.
I think I'm going to stop taking Soolantra. It's simply too much for my skin. My face is incredibly oily and I have more bumps and marks on my face than ever before. I look worse than usual and I've seen zero improvement.
You have very similar symptoms as I experienced, Whyalwaysme, although the Ivermectin works on the inflammation it does little for oily and red skin. As I posted elsewhere, I had great success adding CBD cream to my regimen. It works quite well on both those symptoms for me and also reduced that pernicious facial swelling.
For those who might worry, CBD is generally legal everywhere and available on Amazon.
Now I have more bumps on my forehead than ever before. My forehead used to feel very smooth (I know this from applying cleanser everynight) and now its covered in tiny little bumps.