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how do I know when pityriasis rosea is healing?

By Anonymous May 21, 2010 - 6:21am
 
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I was diagnosed with pityriasis rosea almost 6 weeks ago. Apparently it takes 6-8 weeks to disappear, but I keep finding new spots every time I shower, new red spots seem to pop up. The first ones I got seem to keep changing. Does anyone know what these spots are meant to look like before they just disappear?

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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Hi Try tanning for 4 min every 2 days and head & shoulders shampoo extra strength clinical blue bottle orange inside the colour. Apply on the skin stay ten min after wash it then apply coconut oil and drop few drops of oregano , tea tree and lavander. Not to much tea tree.Apply to your body , get under the toungue 4 drops of oregano oil internal 3times a day and take dimateceous earth one spoon every morning diluated in water on empthy stomach . Good luck !!

April 4, 2017 - 12:17am
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Anonymous

Hi guys rashes just appeared on me 1st week of march and ive been diagnosed with PR on the 2nd week and im on my 3rd week now but rashes still keeps on appearing. I sunbath every morning for 10-20 mins and took bath with head and shoulders. What else can you recommend? Im getting depressed im afraid it wont go away. Please help.

March 23, 2017 - 2:22am
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

It just takes time and it will go away. Be careful with the tanning though. Overdoing it can cause lasting marks once it heals.

April 13, 2017 - 11:49am
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I was diagnosed by my dermatologist with a biopsy. It had spread from the herald patch to scalp at one end and feet at the other end. I tried everything- tanning beds, black soap, bio oil, dandruff shampoo and more. Nothing worked. I was told it would only be there for 6 to 8 weeks. I had it for over a year. I found a cream on eBay called Prreze. It worked in 5 days. The dark patches cleared after a couple of weeks, but the rash and itch went away fast.

March 9, 2017 - 10:27am
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Anonymous

Hello ! It's been a week since it started spreading all around my body after having the first patch ( arms, neck, between gentiles and on my forehead ) it also started being itchy sometimes.
I have nothing to do but to wait for it to go I guess. It's so uncomfortable :(

I have lots of things planned I hope it goes away very soon ^^

February 28, 2017 - 2:58pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Is it getting better? I have had it for close to two weeks now. My doc said it last between 4-8 weeks... How's your going?

April 6, 2017 - 5:16pm
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Anonymous

I've been diagnosed with PR one week ago. When I first discovered my Herald patch, I didn't think to much about it. It appeared on my right hip and a couple days later it started to spread slowly but surely. It started appearing on my back, now it is spreading on my other upper chest, breasts a little bit on my neck, and my shoulders. Its also starting to itch incessantly. I've taken antihistamines, hydroxyzine, and put on hydrocortisone. NOTHING SEEMS TO BE HELPING

I'm also losing my mind and am stressing even more which I know isn't supposed to help and only make it worse. I've been taking vitamin C, L-lystine, and thistle milk. I've also gone to the tanning booth three times. It seems to make the old bumps go down, but the new rash areas just seem more irritated.

I just want this to go away. I can't focus on anything and it makes me so self conscious. My job is incredibly stressful and I'm sure that as added to the spread but I simply can't help it. Also hearing that exercise makes it worse is even harder. I know I just need to ride it out, but I just feel so pathetically hopeless right now.

My bf was in town too and all I could think about was how disgusting I personally felt...

February 5, 2017 - 4:47pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

You poor poor thing. I'm in a long distance relationship too, and I'm just hoping it goes away before I seem him again (In april)
Did it ever go away? My PR has stopped itching almost entirely, and I see no new spots. I'm hoping this is the light at the end of the tunnel!!

January 29, 2019 - 3:13pm
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Anonymous (reply to Anonymous)

Hi! Currently have had mine for almost 2 weeks . I take warm showers and I heard using head and shoulders as body wash helps clear it up . I personally use white dove in lukewarm showers because heat made more bumps appear. I use ketaconazole cream prescribed by my doctor to focus on the herald (dark) patches but I put it everywhere since it became so bad. I use hydrocortisone cream after the first cream then I rub myself in organic pure 100% extra virgin coco nut oil. I apply the oil everytime I itch and massage it & it helps!! Now all of my bumps are dark and starting to go down & itch less I think I'm beating it. I realized my rosea rash came from wearing weave that I did not wash in advanced. Sad to say but I cut it out washed it and I immediately stopped itching more. I drunk a lot of water as well . it may be something your allergic to. Take an allergy test at the doctors also used mometasone furoate ointment because it cleared up my previous ecsema within a week. Also I'm a black woman of a Carmel skin tone so my spots are super dark brown. I'm not sure how long I'm gonna keep the scars but I look like a leopard and after the bumps go away I will be using fade creams and lemon juice

February 22, 2017 - 8:30pm
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I just was diagnosed with PR I recently got weave hair online but I did wash could I have still possibly still got infected from the hair I’m also Carmel skin tone. Did you have PR in your scalp did it cause hair lost ?

August 28, 2018 - 3:22pm
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