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Mon-22-02-2016, 19:31 PM
Cheer's for the knowledge everyone. I'll talk through everything with the Derm tomorrow.
I really dont mind the UVB, I'm fairly light skinned so my skin reacts quite well to it. The only downside is that if I don't wear the mask I'll be walking round red faced all day and as my job requires meeting people it can be quite embarrassing. But my P only seems to be creeping in on my forehead and sides of my nose so hopefully I wont need to do loads of sessions on my face....if I do the light therapy that is.
One interesting thing I need to go back and check with my derm, is the medication I was on whilst I was treating my acne. I was on these pills and had to have regular blood tests and had terrible symptom's of dry face, cracked lips, nose bleeds and itchy eyes. When I was on my 3 month check up I mentioned to my derm that my P was coming back which he said was weird because the drug is also used to treat people with psoriasis.
Like I say, I'll have to go and check what the drug was as I cant remember the name (which is bad considering I took it 3 times a day for 6 months) and I don't know if it it was just tailored for just acne but I may have already been on an oral treatment which is used for P and has had no effect. I dont know what that means for what my derm will recommend but hopefully it's a step I can skip on this trial and error.
Also, I'm not adverse to people calling Pain but PITG can also work
I really dont mind the UVB, I'm fairly light skinned so my skin reacts quite well to it. The only downside is that if I don't wear the mask I'll be walking round red faced all day and as my job requires meeting people it can be quite embarrassing. But my P only seems to be creeping in on my forehead and sides of my nose so hopefully I wont need to do loads of sessions on my face....if I do the light therapy that is.
One interesting thing I need to go back and check with my derm, is the medication I was on whilst I was treating my acne. I was on these pills and had to have regular blood tests and had terrible symptom's of dry face, cracked lips, nose bleeds and itchy eyes. When I was on my 3 month check up I mentioned to my derm that my P was coming back which he said was weird because the drug is also used to treat people with psoriasis.
Like I say, I'll have to go and check what the drug was as I cant remember the name (which is bad considering I took it 3 times a day for 6 months) and I don't know if it it was just tailored for just acne but I may have already been on an oral treatment which is used for P and has had no effect. I dont know what that means for what my derm will recommend but hopefully it's a step I can skip on this trial and error.
Also, I'm not adverse to people calling Pain but PITG can also work