Update: problems with doxycycline, so now on oracea
Joined: 20 Jan 2008
| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: Update: problems with doxycycline, so now on oracea | |
| Hi everyone,
Well, I had such severe reactions to doxycycline that I had to discontinue using it. (I was on it to get me through the steroid rosacea withdrawal.) My face started showing withdrawal symptoms after a few days, though, and started getting pretty scary looking again. The dermatologist (doc #3)pretty much told me there was nothing she could do since I react to so many antibiotics, and basically said "See ya.". Nice doc, huh? So, I went back to my previous dermatologist (doc #2) (who just works part-time one day/week because she had a baby). She was so sweet. She told me that even if it is not the day she works, she is always my doctor and that I should call her office and they will call her at home so that she can call me back. She looked at my face, and said that she had a plan. She told me to go back to using the cutivate every other day because since I had been on another steroid cream for several years (prescribed by yet another dermatologist -- doc#1), it was going to take at least 2 months to wean me off. (The doc #3 had me use cutivate for 1 week and then stop.) Then she (doc #2) put me on oracea. She said that it is designed specifically for rosacea and it is not an antibiotic; it is only anti-inflammatory. So, I shouldn't have any of the side effects that I had with the doxycyline. I am excited to try this and am relieved that it is only 40 mg/day as opposed to the 300 mg/day of doxcycline that the other doc had me on. It appears that others here have had good results with oracea, so I am keeping my fingers crossed! |
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Joined: 28 Aug 2006
| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 4:19 pm Post subject: | |
That is a rather strong steriod cream....I really wouldn't use it at all...it is thinning your skin everytime you do and causing a rebound effect...also will cause more bloodvessel growth. Take the med but don't use that cutivate cream....JMO HTH  _________________ Dx 1998 No meds Used low-dose accutane successfully |
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Joined: 07 Jan 2008
| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: | |
| I hope that works better for you. I had to stop taking Oracea because I had some reactions my derm thinks might have been linked to the Oracea. My eyes got swollen and my neck/chest got really itchy, red and splotchy- my derm said it looked like inflammation. Not sure if it was part of the steroid withdrawal process or from the Oracea, but it went away after I stopped taking it.
Hopefully it works better for you! ~J |
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