my face is worse.....
 

I went to the dermatologist last week, and he prescribed oracea, Which is a low dose of doxyclyclin, and used for it's antiinflamatory properties.
I am also using aczone gel twice a day.
Hate to admit that I have been picking a bit still which is terrible. and now my face has gotten twice as bad. The bumps are now on both sides of my face and along my chin. My faces itches, I read somewhere that I could have an infestation of mites. So I decided to call the office and talk to their nurse. Her name is Val. I told her what was going on. She confronted me about my picking and I was honest with her. and she told me that I really needed to talk with a therapist about dealing with that. I told her it was like an OCD thing and that I had a therapist.
sigh I felt ashamed:(
He wants me to use the steroid ointment for a week. I asked about the mites and if I should switch back to metro gel which I used in the very beginning, he agreed after the steroid use. Wants me to use this 2x a day. It is oily...how am I going to be able to wear make up????
I can't wear bandages all over my face during the day.
I am getting very depressed about this...
I am my own worst enemy.....
bizi

You've worked so hard, I can imagine how hard this is. I wish you could just be mad at the mites :o.
How about makeup for oily complexions?
Sorry--best I can think of. Life's just not fair :(.
BCG, sad for you...

Dear Bizi

might it not be best, for now, to run the gauntlet so to speak? not wearing any makeup will probably expedite healing. i know you don't want to face (no pun intended, honestly) people in this condition... maybe it would help if kept reminding yourself it is temporary. i don't know if you can shuffle some appointments to minimize seeing clients for a week, and ask Jeff to do more of the errands for now.

might bandages be an alternative, at least for some of the rawer parts, or as an anti-picking barrier. i don't know.

i'm sorry you are going through this all over again. :(:heartthrob: (((hugs)))

i would make an appointment to see your therapist right away too. your statement "i am my own worst enemy" kind of struck me. i wonder if there is something to that... you may be going through a phase where you feel extreme guilt about something...... i don't know. thoughts to explore in therapy perhaps though? and she might be able to provide some guidelines to help in a more immediate sense.

please, remember you are beautiful inside.

lots of love

~ waves ~

Dear Bizi,

I understand that you are getting worn out and impatient for your face to be better.
Please listen to yourself and try to be kinder.
If you have OCD, there is no shame in that.
It's not your fault.

You can ask for some med tweaking from your pdoc to deal with the depression. Ask your tdoc to help you also.

Probably the derm's office can help with questions about make up. Call them as often as you need until you feel better about your face.

Taking the Geodon with meals might calm you. We are here with you, hoping that you feel better about yourself soon.

M

thank you all.
I am taking my geodon with food as prescribed but thanks for the gentle reminder as I have not in the past.
I have decided to take the prednisone this morning and for a few days, from what I have read it is the 5th day that it can become a problem.
I wish I were not vain but I am...will be wearing make up the days that I work...not over the weekend and take it off as soon as I get home so as short of a time as possible.
I see my therapist soon can't remember right off the top of my head when but it seems like it has been awhile, I see her once a month.
I can't take ssris as they make me manic, was put on prozac for picking in the past....2 cars 3 weeks...blah blah blah.
my bumps that I have picked at crusts over then forms a scab that cracks open and bleeds and comes off when I wash my face...I need to wash my face more gently...
thank you again for your continued support.
I wish this were on my arm...no it is all over my face right front and center...
~sigh
bizi

Bizi,
Sending thoughts to you. I hope you can start to feel better about yourself. I think it’s also something from what you are seeing that you might can to see if there is a pattern to your face.
Because I’m thinking it’s about the same time of month.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

I had the saliva hormone test done and my progesterone is low and my cortisol was high which is stress related. wonder if low progesterone can affect my rosacea, I asked the derm and he did not seem to interested, said the increased cortisol could just be stress or bipolar.
I made an appointment with a gyn nurse practioner next week to go over these results...to see if there is anything that I can do. Maybe the prednisone will calm everything down...that is what I am hoping for.
bizi

Bizi,

'Good idea to check with a gyn.
I've looked on the web for Geodon's possible effects on progesterone and cortisol. I have not found anything. Ask your doctors to look for you --- they have good data bases. Maybe a pharmacist can look for you as well.

M

Christian Northrup
 

Bizi,

I hope your face gets better for you soon.

You probably found this long page by Christine Northrup. I link to it here.
Sometimes she offers sensible advice.

M

http://www.drnorthrup.com/womensheal...hp?topic_id=56

Rosacea
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Bizi,
I think I would also check with other dermatologists, if you just don’t seem to get this better. I also wonder if a female dermatologist would be more sensitive to what is you are feeling.

Donna:grouphug::hug: