Dreading leaving the house, worst skin day so far

[SeeingRed]

Sulfur soap is definitely drying. After a few good days, I have a few new p&ps today, but my diet has been awful, so... Using sulfur soap morning and night. Using borax and HP spray and tea tree oil morning and night. Also, scrubbing eyes 1 - 2 times a day w/ TTO shampoo. This seems to have made my left eye lid red and puffy, and I have a few p&ps on the edge of the lid Strange enough, my cat is sitting beside me with one of her eyes half closed and it is running. Connection?

[secondopinion]

I feel your pain. Hopefully you have been clearing up in the last few months.

I am on metrogel, to no effect... I tried the HP/Borax/TTO treatment (by member Ghost) and it gave me a purple bump/boil on my forehead which I have to wait another 4 days to see my doctor about.

I truly feel that all of this is hopeless, and I want to die.

[Ghost]

Sulfur soap is definitely drying. After a few good days, I have a few new p&ps today, but my diet has been awful, so... Using sulfur soap morning and night. Using borax and HP spray and tea tree oil morning and night. Also, scrubbing eyes 1 - 2 times a day w/ TTO shampoo. This seems to have made my left eye lid red and puffy, and I have a few p&ps on the edge of the lid Strange enough, my cat is sitting beside me with one of her eyes half closed and it is running. Connection?

red, instead of shampoo on your eyelids, get a scrub made for this. Theratears foam is what I recommend. It even has tto in it. And, yes, cats do take on your illnesses. Treat kitty well.

[Ghost]

I feel your pain. Hopefully you have been clearing up in the last few months.

I am on metrogel, to no effect... I tried the HP/Borax/TTO treatment (by member Ghost) and it gave me a purple bump/boil on my forehead which I have to wait another 4 days to see my doctor about.

I truly feel that all of this is hopeless, and I want to die.

second, the cause of that purple bump likely was in your skin for a long time. Killing mites really can be compared to a war. When you start to kill the surface ones the eggs inside your skin are signaled (perhaps by enzymes -- chemical messengers!) so the fresh mites are mobilized. They start rising. When they rise, you get bumps and reds.

I had a wicked vbeam one time and my skin was glorious. A week later I got a huge bump on my cheek. I could feel it rising up and biting through, in broad daylight! But this was my lesson -- that's when I realized that this is what happens. Nature has made these mites pretty indestructible. That's why the war is constant. Not that each mite is indestructible, but as a whole they are. Your skin just has to keep getting treated so the emerged mites die and don't have a chance to make more eggs. You can't kill the eggs off. Not with anything you can apply to your skin.