Susan,
I am happy for your quick results. No doubt if
you continue for a month, or as the suggested
amount, four months, you will notice significant
control of your rosacea. Thanks for the report.
I haven't heard of anyone other than you who
has said they have had IPL and then the Z cream.
Maybe your post will elicit some others to post.
Brady


--- In rosaceans@yahoogroups.com, "Susan and Steve" <snskramer@y...> wrote:
> Hi Noreen and Everyone,
>
> Noreen I am so happy it's working for you too.
>
>
> I started using the Z cream a bit over 2 weeks ago and I have been
> really happy with the results. I followed the regiment that Brady has
> posted on his site.
>
> My history - diagnosed with perioral dermitis 15 years ago, used
> cortisone and antibiotics to try and reduce it, the derm blamed it on
> the stress of school (which had just finished). (I had moved in with
> my parents after college to a house of 5 dogs and 3 cats, moved out 2
> months later but I think this is where I picked up the mites.)
> Went to new derm a few years later who diagnosed rosacea and put me on
> antibiotics - emycin low dose (eventually I had to take a higher dose
> because they stopped making the lower dose) daily, he eventually added
> metrolotion to my regiment.
> Slowly I watched my face become worse and worse, postules and cysts
> all around and on my nose and chin.
> About a year ago I read about Photo Facials and went through a series
> of treatments and got off the antibiotics and the Metrolotion. The
> nurse put me on a regiment of skin care lotions which did wonderful
> things for my skin tone but not much for the cysts, which kept coming
> back.
> So my cysts came back and I went in for another IPL treatment (she
> switched to the Starlux machine about midway through the first set of
> txs), hurt unbelievably as she zapped the areas around my cysts.
> My face didn't clear up as well as the first set of treatments so I
> decided to take the plunge and try the Demodex products.
> First week I was very flakey and the cysts went away!!!
> During the second week the flakiness dissappeared and now all I have
> is some redness where they once were. I've had only one minor area
> around the base of my nose that still feels like a cyst might be
> lurking but the rest of my face feels normal.
> I haven't had to use much of the product on my skin to get these
> results, I have been very surprised how well they work. My nose was
> also pink and I had a pink area between my brows that even the IPL txs
> didn't reduce and my nose is now a normal skin color and the area
> between my brows has gotten much lighter.
> My husband said the Z cream smells kind of like a tobacco plant.
>
> I was wondering what results people have had using IPL with the Z
> cream.
>
> Thanks to all of you who kept posting about the Z cream. If you
> hadn't I never would have tried it.
>
> Susan
> age 42, started the Rosacea ride at the age of 27