Comments on: Who still uses Protopic?

By: Lucas Shea

Lucas Shea — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 08:46:16 +0000

Sunscreen unfortunately won’t help with the lymphoma risk.

By: Lucas Shea

Lucas Shea — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 22:37:17 +0000

Protopic works like a charm, but I won’t use it. If it were just skin
cancer risk, I would, but lymphoma is scary business. I used it for
quite a while, too — more than a year.

By: Ivan Juliann

Ivan Juliann — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 11:03:32 +0000

i believe this "XXX causes cancer" stuff is alot of
baloney. they feed huge amount of stuff to rats and lo
and behold some get cancer.

if u fed a person 5 pounds of pizza a day i bet
they would get cancer also. doesnt mean pizza causes
cancer.

By: andrea_190

andrea_190 — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 22:39:06 +0000

I find now that I only have to use it once a week or so to keep my skin
in a decent condition. Although I did use it twice a day every day for
the first few months.

Baz Luhrman once said: "If I could offer you only one tip for the
future, sunscreen would be
it." Which is probably good advice - if you’re using protopic, use a
high spf sunscreen aswell to help reduce the risk (but still avoid the
sun as much as practical).

Richard

By: Dorothy Delisa

Dorothy Delisa — Sun, 25 Dec 2005 16:56:12 +0000

[reply]
I had just gotten a refill of Protopic filled and read the FDA
warning. So I spoke to my pharmacist at Kaiser Hospital in Bellflower,
CA.., USA, about a refund. He told me that the FDA has not issued a
recall of Protopic, so no refund. A week later, I needed to use
Protopic again, so I’m happy I did NOT get a refund! It has been the
ONLY topical prescription that has worked the best on my face. It’s
not cheap! I’ll be glad when the patent runs out so a generic version
can be made.

By: Neva Marjory

Neva Marjory — Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:08:11 +0000

I quit Elidel cause of the POTENTIAL cancer connection. I personally
think that it has nothing to do with cancer development and the
black-box warning is issued because people get paranoid when it comes
to cancer. I switched to DRL instead.

Ice