I am not a physician, so don't get excited. Have you considered that
you may have eczema? It appears from your description to be eczema.
Have you had a dermatologist look at it and diagnose it? There are some
good prescription medications for eczema that may help. I broke out
with what you described below in various places on my body, some I
would rather not mention here, but went to the dermatologist who said
it was eczema with just a glance. I thought, how can he know that by
just a glance? Anyway, he gave me a tube of something and I put it on
and it cleared up eventually. It came back again years later and I didn't
want to go back to the dermatologist so I applied the ZZ cream on it
and that cleared it up too. Amazing stuff the ZZ cream. It works for me.

That is my two cents and I don't give refunds. But I do suggest asking
your derm about it.

By the way, I got off tetracycline over ten years ago and it took years to
get over the side effects of using it. Upset stomach, sensitive skin to the sun
and everything else. Take lots of pro-biotics, like acidophilus, every day for
the rest of your life. Yogurt.

Brady
group owner
--- In rosaceans@yahoogroups.com, mythjedi <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> I have a question and I am hoping that perhaps someone here could
> help me.
>
> I was treating my rosacea last year with Doxycycline. I used this
> medication for about two months and then stopped when I had a visible
> allergic reaction to it. I had a spotty rash under both of my knees,
> and I also had red patchy blotches on my face and back, which
> appeared similar to hives and would itch on and off. I also had the
> strong sensation of being sun burned on my arms and back, but I was
> not sun burned. I had not been in the sun, at all, since this was not
> recommended while taking this medication.
>
> After stopping my allergic symptoms began to clear, but every now and
> then I would still get a stray red patch on my arms or back, but it
> would fade quickly enough.
>
> However, I have now noticed that when I attempt to treat my acne
> rosacea, be it with a doctor prescribed treatment, or be it with a
> natural remedy, if my condition begins to improve at all these
> allergic symptoms return. I don't get the rash under my knees, but
> the hives, itching, and burning all return. Which I cannot
> understand, as I have not used doxycycline for a year now, and the
> other treatments I am pursuing are different than doxycycline, and
> certainly I cannot be allergic in exactly the same manner to every
> different form of treatment I try.
>
> Could this still somehow be related to the doxycycline? That seems
> like a stretch, but I'm grasping for an answer. I don't think that
> this is due to any normal allergy, as it only occurs when my acne
> rosacea begins to improve from a treatment I am trying. I know that I
> am still experiencing stomach upset from this medicine, a year on- so
> could it be possible that I am still experiencing other reactions as
> well? Any help at all would be appreciated. Thanks.
>