Hi team, I’ve always has mild rosacea exacerbated by the normal triggers (wine, hot shower, bad sunburn, etc.) but nothing even close to the flare I had this week after getting BBL/Moxi to…. treat my rosacea. 🫠 

Anyways! I spiraled into the abyss because I was so sad and uncomfortable and wanted to share here what worked for me based on a million internet searches and mostly Reddit/my dermatologist. 

I got the laser treatment on Saturday, and by the Tuesday I was in so much pain day and night I could barely take care of my kids (I’m a stay at home mom to 1 and 3 year old boys). I didn’t sleep for five straight days except when I took a lorazepam (which I have for flying) because all night I just felt my skin crawling, tingling, bugs, burning, etc. the first photo is Tuesday. The *only* thing that took the edge of the crawling was putting milk of magnesia which I think is a liquid you drink for upset stomachs 🤷🏼‍♀️ on my hot spots. This was the only way I could sleep. 

Finally on Friday I went to CVS and bought .5% Ivermectin Lice Shampoo and put that on my hot spots, I felt *instant* relief and felt the little demodex effers popping and dying a horrible death thank you Lord. The second picture is 24 hours after starting the Ivermectin shampoo topically. I also saw my derm on Friday who prescribed me doxycycline 100 for 3 weeks and a Rosacea Triple Cream lotion that has ivermectin, azeliac acid and Metronidazole but as of this typing I don’t have it yet, just the lice shampoo 😂 

Today is Saturday night and I am just LEAPS and bounds better and wish I started the ivermectin a week earlier. Those photos are like 72 hours apart. It saved my whole life, I was honestly borderline depressed at how uncomfortable my face felt and that I could not sleep at all and now I feel mostly fine - just the Iver OOC 48 hours and doxy 24 hrs. And the other discoloration on my face is from that damn laser treatment so hoping that will go away in the coming week. Never again! 

I can’t recommend trying that lice shampoo hack enough for anyone who is struggling with painful “crawling” rosacea. I’ll prob do an update in a week or two but otherwise feeling cured! Good luck everyone ❤️ 

Severe Rosacea flare BBL/Moxi induced - what worked for me over (only a week out)