Keith:

I'm afraid my results were similar to yours. I didn't experience any significant smoothing out of symptoms, and finally gave up because of the skin irritation. The last batch I tried (I've been using multiple small patches instead of one large one, because the itching seemed to get worse previously when I increase patch size), I had to remove after 12 hours. Even after washing with soap and water and applying aloe lotion, the marks were visible even after 30 hours.

Good luck on finding the right meds.