Just as an aside, I had a similar reaction to a sulfa medication. I
broke out in hives after the last dosage of the antibiotic. I know
some topical creams contain sulfa, or sulfates (?) and I've never
had a reaction to the one I used for my rosacea, but the oral
antibiotic was a different story.

--- In rosaceans@yahoogroups.com, mythjedi <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Brady-
>
> Thanks for the help. I have been diagnosed with rosacea and
nothing
> else. The hives did not appear on me until I went on doxycycline,
so I
> assumed that this medicine was the cause. I have been off of it
now for
> a year, so I also assumed that it was "out of my system". So, when
I
> started to get hives yet again when attempting to treat my rosacea
I
> was stumped. Still, if it can potentially take YEARS to rid my
system
> of this antibiotic, then it may be possible that this med is still
> causing me heartache when I try to treat the rosacea.
>
> I don't really have dry flaky skin anywhere, so I don't think that
I
> have eczema.
>