Re: Hate to butt in again Diane, BUT...

[Guest guest]

>

> since i'm already on periostat antibiotic (i am just a mess, lol) i

> just doubled the dose to get rid of the redness. (40 mg every 12

> hrs). i'm sure that's the minimum dose for me because the redness

> returns at the 11th hour. i use topical erythromycin at night after

> washing my face. i use spf 70 in before going into the daylight.

>

...Does your doctor know about the herbs (gingko biloba; horse

chestnut) in your routine that you take in addition to the

antiobiotics? Also I think 'Veinish' contains horse chestnut extract

(don't hold me to that) which (hypothetically) is absorbed into the

skin, enters your bloodstream subcutaneously, and is consequently

circulated through and processed by the liver. You don't want to make

your liver too toxic -- this organ is one of the work horses of your

body!

By the way, even though cea doesn't appear to run in my family (I

just found out that a chronically red-faced distant cousin, now

deceased, probably had cea; she was a fair-skinned strawberry

blonde like me), varicose veins do plague my paternal grandmother's

side. I look a great deal like my paternal grandmother did at my age,

and even though she had beautiful facial skin, she had horrible

varicose veins (even at a young age) as well as what my family

describes vaguely as " circulation problems " . Thankfully, any

problems I have with my blood vessels, veins or otherwise, appear to

be limited to my face (knock on wood!)

Chow! Be nice to your dermal mites!

--Jillian

[Guest guest]

>

> since i'm already on periostat antibiotic (i am just a mess, lol) i

> just doubled the dose to get rid of the redness. (40 mg every 12

> hrs). i'm sure that's the minimum dose for me because the redness

> returns at the 11th hour. i use topical erythromycin at night after

> washing my face. i use spf 70 in before going into the daylight.

>

...Does your doctor know about the herbs (gingko biloba; horse

chestnut) in your routine that you take in addition to the

antiobiotics? Also I think 'Veinish' contains horse chestnut extract

(don't hold me to that) which (hypothetically) is absorbed into the

skin, enters your bloodstream subcutaneously, and is consequently

circulated through and processed by the liver. You don't want to make

your liver too toxic -- this organ is one of the work horses of your

body!

By the way, even though cea doesn't appear to run in my family (I

just found out that a chronically red-faced distant cousin, now

deceased, probably had cea; she was a fair-skinned strawberry

blonde like me), varicose veins do plague my paternal grandmother's

side. I look a great deal like my paternal grandmother did at my age,

and even though she had beautiful facial skin, she had horrible

varicose veins (even at a young age) as well as what my family

describes vaguely as " circulation problems " . Thankfully, any

problems I have with my blood vessels, veins or otherwise, appear to

be limited to my face (knock on wood!)

Chow! Be nice to your dermal mites!

--Jillian