How it started…very insidiously
About two years ago I began to get this peeling on my ear lobes.
There was redness and irritation. Then the fold between my earlobes
and face became cracked and sore. It then progressed to my face
(along the hairline, jaw line, under my nostrils and sometimes my
eyebrows and nose bridge). I would get these patches of dry skin
that would flak off and leave raw areas underneath. When I first
consulted my primary care physician during the "earlobe" stage two
years ago, she said I had seborrheic dermatitis. Now she thinks it
is exzema and can’t even remember first saying it was seborrheic
dermatitis.
Anyway…my skin is going downhill this week. I have been off the
Diane 35 (anti acne/anti seborrhea) birth control pill for 2 1/2
weeks. My skin is getting very oily and breaking out in small
pimples everywhere and the sebderm is flaring (in the same old
places).
I have also discontinued using Retin-A micro due to the fact my pcp
thought I had rosacea. While I said it was the Retin-A. I am less
red than before, but got pimples instead.
I am letting my face go in order to let my pcp (Thursday appt) and
new dermatologist (Friday appt) see my face unaffected or controled
(au naturale) by meds or creams. But this is torture!!!!!!!!
Arghhh!
October 25th, 2003 at 7:52 am
Thank you Mads.
It is my intention to ask for accutane. However, I am certain that
being a new patient, the dermatologist will want to run me through a
few hoops before even considering accutane. Even then, I think the
derm will not consider it because the criteria for being put on
accutane is that you have to be literally disfigured with acne and my
skin is not horrific (yet).
I have been on accutane before, precribed by a derm in Boston long
time ago, and it got my skin to a managable state.
We’ll see what happens.
Tina
— In sebderm@y…, "mads holvik" <madsholvik@h…> wrote:
>
October 25th, 2003 at 4:48 pm
Hi Tina,
I dont think your acne has to be disfifguring at all. Many derm
prescribe it for persistent acne nonresponsive to other treatments,
but they also take into consideration how the acne affects the person
as a whole, and also the age.
My derm said in Mai that accutane would be ok, but he was going on
vacation and also in the summer accutane is not so wise, perhaps.
Therefor, Ill go back next week and see him, and ask him to give me
accutane. Ill also discuss the seb derm-accutane question.
In any event, accutane will hopefully remove all my acne, which by
the way isnt so much, but it will hopefully do something with sebum
and my seb derm.
As always, Id like responses from those who have used accutane, and
tell how it affected seb derm and what the long term results were.
Best wishes,
Mads
October 26th, 2003 at 5:10 am
I was on accutane, when i was 18-19 yrs old for problems due to acne. this
was way before i was diagnosed with sebderm. I started getting flaky and
red when i was 24. While on accutane, before having sebderm, the pills
really dry out your whole body. My true experiences were waking up in the
mornings with my face all dry and crusted over, nose bleeds. Now at 26, i
think back but question was it the accutane that started the sebderm in my
body. Did i dry out my body so much that my body started producing more
sebum to compensate. Accutane made me dry, extremely dry
tony
October 26th, 2003 at 5:04 pm
Tony,
Did your acne come back as well? I have no acne, just fairly oily skin
and sebderm. It would really be something to go on accutane and make it
worse! Did you use a lot of moisturizer when on the accutane. My brother
actually had moderate acne, very oily skin, and was starting to show signs
of the sebderm redness. After a course of accutane (about 6 yrs ago) his
face is flawless.
-Jill
On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Tony Carezo wrote:
October 27th, 2003 at 1:28 am
no jill my acne did not come back…But again when i was on accutane i was
on it for the reason of acne alone, not sebderm. I was on accutane when i
was 18 yrs old. many years later, when i was 24 did i start showing signs
of redness and flaking.. If yur brothers skin was flawless, then give it a
try..P.s what about sebderm in the scalp, does anyone know any good products
to use
tony
October 27th, 2003 at 11:37 am
Hey Mads,
how significant of a change does cutting out sugars and carbs make?
tony
October 27th, 2003 at 4:41 pm
I haven’t really had problems with seb derm on the scalp, allthough I
had severe "regular" dandruff a while back, but after using a
combination of whole range of different shampoos, like regular H&S,
H&S Intensive Treatment (probably the very best) and Polytar, I can
now say that I’m 100% free from dandruff on the scalp, and have been
so for a couple of years.
>P.s what about sebderm in the scalp, does anyone know any good
products
> to use
October 28th, 2003 at 7:55 am
you mean to tell me that you used these shampoos for a while and now you
dont have to use them anymore. Which one would u recommend the most.
tony
October 28th, 2003 at 12:59 pm
No, I still use them, of course, to keep it all under control. I
especially like H&S Intensive Treatment, but Ketaconazole also does a
good job.
October 29th, 2003 at 4:38 am
— In sebderm@y…, "mads holvik" <madsholvik@h…> wrote:
> Mads,
We are having real trouble with our e-mail so if you’d like a sample
of the new sensitive skin formulation let me know.
Brian
October 29th, 2003 at 8:19 pm
Hi Brian,
I am wondering if you received my message last Friday stating that I would
be happy to try the new formula–please let me know and thanks for all of
your help.
RJ
October 31st, 2003 at 4:45 am
Hi,
Just thought I`d check if the Cutanix e-mail works, after Brain (I
did mean Brian (; ) mentioned some problems.
I wasnt sure if I got through.
Anyways, have a nice day
Mads
October 31st, 2003 at 5:32 pm
Hi guys,
We have gotten a wonderful response from many of you requesting more
information and samples. I am busily trying to answer all of your
requests, but our e-mail here is doing unbelievably weird things. I
can receive your messages, but cannot send replies back to you. I
have heard that with the Worldcomm bankruptcy the internet is
experiencing some problems. Our current routing happens to be
through a worldcomm service so I am sure this is the problem. Maybe
you have had similar troubles?
At any rate, I have gotten all of your requests and will be sending
out your samples ASAP. We are making a new batch of the sensitive
skin formula and it should be ready to ship by the end of the week.
Thanks again for all of your help and support and please have
patience with this e-mail trouble we’re having.
Best Regards,