Roseacia

[thatjagbloke]

Anybody else had this. I've got it on my nose which now looks bright red like one of those clown noses. Except it isn't shiny but all cracked and blistering, and apart from the fact it looks horrible, it's bloody painful, stinging and itchy at the same time.
Been to the Docs this morning and now have some antibiotic cream to apply twice a day but apparently may take up to 6 weeks to clear it !
Wife laughs every time she looks at me so no sympathy there, hope for her sake it's not catching.
Your experiences ?

[PositronicRay]

Pics?

[thatjagbloke]

PositronicRay said:

Pics?

No way ! It's too bloody embarrassing.

[sjc]

thatjagbloke said:

PositronicRay said:

Pics?

No way ! It's too bloody embarrassing.

I assume he meant of the wife !!

[toastyhamster]

This:
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/924/pil

Once a day even when you think it's not needed. Do it now before you get this;

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/blepharitis/

which roseacia causes and is bloody annoying.

Or eliminate the cause, but good luck finding somebody to tell you what it is.

[anonymous-user]

Rosacea isn’t a bacterial infection, although depending on what sub type you have, low dose antibiotics (e.g. Erythromycin) can be used to treat it. Get referred to a dermatologist as GP doctors don’t know what they are doing when it comes to this disease. Mine’s under control but it took years to get there. If it is Rosacea, you cannot cure it.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 5th June 19:43

[thatjagbloke]

toastyhamster said:

This:
https://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/924/pil

Once a day even when you think it's not needed. Do it now before you get this;

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/blepharitis/

which roseacia causes and is bloody annoying.

Or eliminate the cause, but good luck finding somebody to tell you what it is.

Thanks a lot ! Now you've really got me worried.
When I went to the Docs I only saw the nurse practicioner who reckoned she knew what it was but she did say if there was no improvement in a week I should make an appointment with the doctor at the practice who specialises in skin problems.

[toastyhamster]

Rozex is much lower dose than Erythromycin (which to be fair works bloody quickly). The problem with Erythromycin is the lack of research into long term (years/decades) side effects. I was quite lucky in that my GP surgery knew of another local GP that had a specific interest in skin complaints, he put me on Erythromycin and it was a big relief, but when I needed a repeat prescription my GP pointed out that much lower dosage creams were available that wouldn't excrete through the liver and *might* work just as well, so I took the option and it worked for me. I use the cream regularly but as prescribed only a tiny amount, a tube can last me a couple of years easy. If I remember to keep using it I have no flare ups at all.

My liver has enough to deal with!

[anonymous-user]

To be fair I’ve tried them all including Metro gel and Lymecycline. In the end Erythromycin is the only thing that worked. Been taking it for years and I’m not dead yet.

Everyone’s different hence my advice to see a proper skin doctor. In my experience, GPs just don’t know how to treat it.

[toastyhamster]

Lymecycline also here, same reason tried lower dose cream, if I can go lower dose without ingestion it seems more sensible, appreciate doctors (and medical world in general) seem to know very little about skin problems so different things will work for different people.

Wasn't happy to find that my eyelids gluing themselves together every night was a side effect though, Blepharitis is an (occasionally painful when infected) pain. Plus the solution to treat it is a tenner a pop from Boots!

[mark831]

Look up reviews for finacea....

[toastyhamster]

mark831 said:

Look up reviews for finacea....

Christ, I was on that as well (before the oral antibiotics), looking back I must have tried most things, from memory it didn't work for me.

I also had Triludan as a kid for hayfever, dunno how I'm still alive.

[mark831]

toastyhamster said:

mark831 said:

Look up reviews for finacea....

Christ, I was on that as well (before the oral antibiotics), looking back I must have tried most things, from memory it didn't work for me.

I also had Triludan as a kid for hayfever, dunno how I'm still alive.

Not sure it will be a quick fix but lots of reviews suggest it works long term..... know that not what OP is necessarily after!

[toastyhamster]

mark831 said:

toastyhamster said:

mark831 said:

Look up reviews for finacea....

Christ, I was on that as well (before the oral antibiotics), looking back I must have tried most things, from memory it didn't work for me.

I also had Triludan as a kid for hayfever, dunno how I'm still alive.

Not sure it will be a quick fix but lots of reviews suggest it works long term..... know that not what OP is necessarily after!

Pretty sure I was on Finacea for about a year and had repeated flare ups which prompted them to refer me to the local hobbyist GP, which then started the oral antibiotics which the GPs then refined to a cream. The local GPs are not very keen on prescribing long term oral antibiotics. The hobbyist was attached to an almost adjacent mental/elderly care hospital, in the end it all seemed to work out but it was all a bit more luck than judgement, so I can see people having widely varied experiences.

[thatjagbloke]

I've been prescribed Anabact 0.75% gel. No ones mentioned that so I hope it works. The nurse I saw did mention oral antibiotics but it would have meant taking them for up to 8 weeks and neither of us were keen on that.