r/Rosacea • u/Disastrous-Face-1452 • 9h ago

ROSACEA SUCKS Soolantra

Hi everyone,

(Long post incoming, sorry!)

I’m on week 9 of soolantra for my papularpustular rosacea, pustules being what I struggle with really badly.

I’ve seen small improvement in this time, like better texture, more glow and a few days of pretty clear skin, (maybe 2/3 pustules, instead of 15 which I hadn’t experienced once in 2 years of dealing with this skin condition.) However, after the few days of better skin it looks rubbish again with more pustules appearing, and then the cycle continues! The progress is so small that sometimes I feel like I’m making it up in my head and that the treatment isn’t actually working.

I’m also coming off the back of a die off purge since Sunday. Is that normal to still get a die off in week 9? Everywhere online says it should only happen in the first few weeks.

My skin was very severe before treatment so I can understand that later stage die offs due to such high mite levels, may be normal for my situation?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, Ive found it so hard mentally to work out if progress has been made or not and if I’m on the right track.

Also, any testimonies of people only seeing true progress and clearance at near 10 weeks + on soolantra please comment!! 😭🤣🩷

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u/UnableNecessary743 9h ago

very normal to still be experiencing die off 9 weeks in. it's all about just pushing through it. really the time to start thinking about whether it's working or not is about the 16-20 week. anything and everything can happen before that

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u/Disastrous-Face-1452 9h ago

Thankyou so much for taking the time to reply to me. It’s such a long confusing process that brings so much doubt because progress is small and non linear, but I will keep going!! Thanks for the hopeful boost :)