Can rosacea fade a lot from sulfur? This seemed to be happening to me.

[jrlhamcat2]

Hi! I don't know...hm, I don't really think so because I actually feel pricking slightly painful sensations in my body mainly my legs and butt and feet but sometimes in my upper body region. My muscles have felt like they are twitching too on my body. It seems like a nerve problem- these stinging sensations. Now, I just don't know if it's an actual disorder I've developed or it's it's stress exacerbating my nerves. Guess I should go to a neurologist to find out.

I don't think my skin looks like rosacea for the most part either thank you for giving me your opinion. Dermatologist said it looks like some weird rash and couldn't figure it out but then said it might be rosacea. I have never heard of anyone's skin getting randomly cut up with fissures and feelings of pain the way my skin feels along with a feeling like my skin is tearing into slits at times.

That's why I thought it must be demodicidosis but I have no idea how to help myself I have tried so many things to treat demodex mites and seen small improvement.

Yeah, sorry that I can't help more.

Have you looked into whether a demodex infestation could even cause these symptoms? I think almost everyone is positive for demodex, so that might be a red herring anyhow.

If all these symptoms started at the same time and some of them aren't even facial, I would think that excludes rosacea as a primary diagnosis, but I have no specialised medical or scientific training.

Maybe you should try another dermatologist or an infectious diseases specialist as well as a neurologist? I'm assuming you're researching what could cause these symptoms; hopefully you'll eventually find something that helps you make sense of it.

I would probably also look into vitamin B12 and D levels if you haven't already, just to rule those out. B12 deficiency could potentially explain some of the neurological symptoms, but I haven't heard of it causing itching sensations.

[birdsing]

Yeah, sorry that I can't help more.

Have you looked into whether a demodex infestation could even cause these symptoms? I think almost everyone is positive for demodex, so that might be a red herring anyhow.

If all these symptoms started at the same time and some of them aren't even facial, I would think that excludes rosacea as a primary diagnosis, but I have no specialised medical or scientific training.

Maybe you should try another dermatologist or an infectious diseases specialist as well as a neurologist? I'm assuming you're researching what could cause these symptoms; hopefully you'll eventually find something that helps you make sense of it.

I would probably also look into vitamin B12 and D levels if you haven't already, just to rule those out. B12 deficiency could potentially explain some of the neurological symptoms, but I haven't heard of it causing itching sensations.

Well the strange sharp pangs I am getting in my legs and arms now didn't start till about 3 weeks ago but my facial problem has been a year long problem that slowly grew less pink, but the texture became incredibly worse. Crawling feelings on my legs and sometimes my body had been happening not long after the face problems. It's plausible that this is all symptoms of me being stressed because i have anxiety and have had small tiny anxiety attack coming on latel. I have been tested for B12 and I had wanted to get tested for D but the lab for some reason didn't take enough of my blood and that was the only testing they left out! So I still don't know what my D levels are, but I had been told my a doctor in the past after blood testing that I have low vitamin D and she told me to take vitamin D. I had been taking vitamin d though and did not see improvement from it's use. Granted, i take a chewable kind because i have trouble swallowing pills.

I have researched demodex for months day in day out. Trying to find ways to beat them and reading people's problems with them. It seems like demodex could make anything happen. Seems like there are people who say they feel crawling and on their body too. Who say they have had bumps and pimples show up and burrows from the mites burrowing into the skin. I can't distinguish if some of these people thought they had demodex but in fact had scabies. Sometimes I wonder if I have scabies and the scabies are causing tiny bumps on my skin. People who say their eyelashes and I believe I read eyebrows fall out as well as hair loss on scalp from them. People who say they feel them crawling into their nose, ears, eyebrows, scalp, etc. I don't know if these people are suffering from something else instead of demodex that might be similar to what underlying cause I may be suffering from if it's not demodex....but there is basically so many symptoms for demodex and I have many times read the symptoms and it fit into the symptom checklist perfectly.....but if I do have them, I am growing weary trying to beat them and I am not doing a good job obviously even though I feel I have tried and tried and am feeling hopeless. I talked to a woman on this board who told me that her dermatologist found dog's demodex mites from a biopsy of her skin which is crazy because they cannot live on humans or so it's been said. She was having some fissures form from bumps and so forth. She didn't have pink skin though from the pictures she showed me. She used scabies precrip which made redness disappear but a few months later her skin was horrible again. It seems like anything is possible. I just wish I could find out for sure what is going on without a biopsy.

Who knows maybe it's rosacea and maybe I'm just crazy and don't know it.

[flying_er]

Thank you for your response. I got my prescription for the same as you but my cream is called avar-e cream but i think it has all the same ingredients as your perrigo product. I am now just really nervous to use it because I read the side effects on sodium sulfacetamide. I had no idea how toxic and dangerous this could be! Nor that it's an antibiotic which worries me about my skin I really don't understand what sodium sulfacetamide is....i really would rather try just a sulfur cream without the danger of using sodium sulfacetamide.

Thank you for your advice. I may try out a sulfur ointment first and then avar-e if that doesn't help. Because then that means the sodium sulfacetamide was the ingredient in the wash I used that really helped more over any of the other ingredients in it.

Hey birdsing,

If you are looking for a nice sulphur only cream, I can state that David Hoskings of Australia makes a very good one. He's a really good guy and will mix up anything you want. I had him make me a cream with Sulphur, Tea Tree Oil and Zinc. When my skin get too irritated from my other more harsh topicals I always revert back to this cream for a few days to calms things down.

Here's a link to his site -> http://hoskingspharmacy.com/rosacea-...d.htm#ORDERNOW

And I have no connection David Hoskings, I've just found him to make good products.

-Dave-

[Mister88]

Hey birdsing,

If you are looking for a nice sulphur only cream, I can state that David Hoskings of Australia makes a very good one. He's a really good guy and will mix up anything you want. I had him make me a cream with Sulphur, Tea Tree Oil and Zinc. When my skin get too irritated from my other more harsh topicals I always revert back to this cream for a few days to calms things down.

Here's a link to his site -> http://hoskingspharmacy.com/rosacea-...d.htm#ORDERNOW

And I have no connection David Hoskings, I've just found him to make good products.

-Dave-

I have never used sulfar cream.

But I can share NY experience with sulfar face wash.

I stopped using it and my skin got better....seems my skin is really sensitive.

[drummond]

Also, you used chili on your rosacea and it made the skin lighter? For a long time or just a few hours?

For a few weeks maybe six weeks but after it slowly came back to red.

[Mister88]

so alot of you notice that sulfar wash makes the skin MORE red?

I recently had a flare up.

Should i go back to my sulfar wash ...use it maybe 1x/eod???????

Any help is appreciated