Are these products prescribed good?
Hey all, (last picture with blue headband is my skin currently after stopping steroid use and letting skin heal with other products)
So last October I was prescribed this steroid cream for hives, and sometimes I’d get these small bumps on my face and it started on just my forehead. I started using the steroid cream for it and they would come every 2 weeks and I’d use the cream again, and in 30 min they were always gone. Now it’s May, and I started to get this at least once a week. I was fine with it because I knew I could just get it to go away with my steroid cream.
Turns out, I believe I gave myself steroid withdrawal or steroid induced perioral dermatitis. So last week, I stopped using the steroid cream and have been letting them heal naturally with gentler products like vanicream and azelic acid.
Yesterday I went to the dermatologist though, and she prescribe me 2 topicals (im pregnant so I declined the doxycycline) Tacrolimus for just night use, and Clindamycin for the morning.
My dermatologist believed it looked more acne related because it was covering my cheeks too, but I haven’t had acne in a while and even when I used the steroid cream, every blemish and texture and bumps would go away in 30 min.
I just want to see if anyone else was prescribed these medications and if they ended up working or not?