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Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I'm still taking the doxy as well as the oxytet, though the latter I was intending to come off as the lymecycline started to have an effect. All of which is way too much I...

Okay, so I know this isn't sensible or sustainable, but...

Ten years ago when I first developed rosacea I treated it with oxytetracyline. It helped with the nose flushing pretty quickly, that...

I've been taking doxy for three months now, almost. The problem is I've been taking soolantra for five weeks now, so maybe that made the papules worse for a while, and undid the good work doxy might...

Okay, so I think actually I've begun to see improvement in terms of papules/pustules; but nothing in terms of redness/skin sensitivity/flushing. I guess soolantra isn't really designed for that? I'm...

Thanks for the replies. I think as I've stuck with soolantra this far, I'm just going to stick it out for the twelve weeks. I can always try zz cream again then.

Hey all,

Okay, so I've been using just soolantra once a day at night for just over a month now. As for its effect upon my skin, I'd say my forehead has been consistently worse during that time, in...

It doesn't seem stupid at all, not to me, anyway. I've thought about it a lot, too. However, ultimately I couldn't bear the thought of what it would do to my family. Obviously I have no idea of your...

Only for a few days. It broke me out really badly, took a few weeks to recover. Obviously the initial worsening stage is to be expected, but I wasn't quite ready to stick with it. I thought I'd just...

I'm really sorry it isn't working for you. Cry:

On a selfish level, I've been waiting for a couple of zz threads to be updated to see if I should go back to using it. But the last few I've noticed...

Yeah, I think that's probably good advice, thanks. Less is more right now.

As to the carbs... I can't do it, I don't think. I've given up sugar for a few weeks now, but I like my carbs too much....

As expected, I gave up the soolantra. I know it's supposed to get worse, but while it was helping a bit with the breakouts, it was making me red everywhere; even where I don't have rosacea.
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ps - oh, by the way, I was on this forum years ago when I first developed rosacea symptoms. But as my skin improved I forgot about it. And by the time I came back I'd forgotten my password, so just...

No, not officially. Well I kind of have. A GP, general practitioner - you have them in America, right? - she looked at my face, saw the redness, asked me if was mainly the centre of the face, etc,...

The problem is, even on here you have people favouring soolantra over zz cream. Which makes it tough. Another issue is, I've looked at your pictures, and my skin isn't the same as yours. Hard to...

Third day: woke up to a good few more break outs. Yay. My nose seems a bit redder and cheeks are blotchy red; but it's hard to be sure what's breakout inflammation and what is persistent redness at...

I am very tempted to go back to ZZ, I won't lie. I like the feel of it better than soolantra. But the fact that soolantra is "official", and, from what I can see, has many more success stories than...

Do you mean in a good way? As in, it will take longer to see the benefits of Soolantra? Or do you mean that the initial die off is something which happens sooner with ZZ cream?

Okay, so I've decided to try and keep a little log of my soolantra treatment, just in case anyone is interested. (Though I can't promise I won't suddenly up and abandon it and switch to zz cream; I...

Thanks for the replies. I guess I'm going to have to pick either zz cream or soolantra and stick with it. I'll try soolantra for a few days just to see how it feels/if it irritates. If it does, I'll...

Truthfully, I had a bit of a panic when it got bad. I know it says it's normal to get worse, but it's easy to say that and I guess the fact it's basically just some random cream from china put me...

Okay, so my skin these past 4 or 5 days has been ridiculously bad in terms of breakouts: papules, pustules, also just itchy red blotches on my forehead. Now, I started zz cream at the same time as...

I really just meant longer term.

I hadn't no, thanks. Unfortunately after the initial post about recovery, the poster didn't update their progress. No way of knowing if things got better or not.

I've actually stopped using the zz cream for now, just because I've started doxy and I want to see what difference that makes on its own. Unfortunately, two days was long enough to completely ruin my...

I read some of your other thread; really happy that zz cream helped your skin. smile: One thing you wrote that I couldn't quite figure out; you said you mixed with water? Is that as in, you literally...