u/cutelittlee

At first, a dermatologist prescribed permethrin cream for me and my boyfriend. (We live in Dubai btw) We did the treatment correctly the first week and repeated it on day 7 like instructed. We washed sheets, cleaned everything, etc. But somehow we got reinfested (pretty sure from the couch). We were still itching like CRAZY and honestly it felt like the permethrin wasn’t doing anything.

So I went to another dermatologist at a different clinic, and this is what finally helped:

every day for 3 days apply Benzyl benzoate for 3 days straight AND IVERMECTIN YOU NEED IT BRO DONT USE PERMETHRIN THAT SHIT DOESNT WORK
NO SHOWER NO WATER NO WASHING HANDS (no contact with water basically) during those 3 days
Ivermectin prescribed by a dermatologist + second dose on day 7
Sulfur soap every shower afterward (this helped SO much with the skin)
The biggest thing though: ENVIRONMENT CONTROL.

My dermatologist told me if I really wanted this gone, I needed to leave my apartment for 7 days. So I literally booked an Airbnb for a week while doing treatment.
I put ALL my clothes, blankets, towels, etc. into plastic bags with gloves on and left them untouched for over a week (honestly closer to 2 weeks because I became paranoid). Don’t come at me saying “3 days is enough” — maybe for some people, but I personally got reinfected and my dermatologist confirmed longer isolation was safer in stubborn cases.

I also stopped seeing my boyfriend for 2 weeks until he was fully treated ( he did the same treatment as me ) because otherwise you can keep passing it back and forth.

What finally worked for me:
Benzyl benzoate
Ivermectin
Sulfur soap (very important you need it everytime you shower it’s a antiparasit soap they hate it those motherfuckers)
STRICT cleaning/isolation
Staying away from reinfestation sources

Now I can finally say goodbye to these little demons 😭
Just wanted to share in case anyone feels hopeless because I KNOW how mentally exhausting this is. AND I PROMISE YOU IF YOU FOLLOW WHAT I SAID THEY WILL NEVER BOTHER YOU AGAIN !!!!!

I’m 19 and I honestly don’t know what’s happening to me right now.

I started taking Citalopram 10mg 7 days ago, and tomorrow I’m supposed to increase to 20mg. I also take Seroquel 200mg at night. I weigh 45kg btw.

these past two days I’ve been crying so much over things that probably sound stupid to other people, but they genuinely hurt me. One of the reasons is my hair. Before, my hair was longer, thicker, and curlier, and now it’s shorter and less curly because of heat damage and because two years ago a girl cut all my hair out of jealousy she beat me etc anyways... Seeing myself like this genuinely makes me cry and feel horrible about myself.

But the thing that hurts me the most is my mom. She’s 52 and still working and it honestly breaks my heart. My mom and my sister still have to work and pay rent, and I feel this unbearable pressure to become successful and rich as fast as possible so I can take care of them and make my mom stop working forever.

I don’t even live in Canada anymore - I live in Dubai — but I came back to Canada recently mainly to get mental health help because I was crying everyday and feeling extremely depressed.. and be closer to my family for a bit. I got a diagnosis from my psychiatrist since I was a kid that I was following up with : Borderline personality disorder, PTSD, ADHD.. Eventually I’ll have to go back to Dubai though in less than a month. I hate it here in Canada.

I lost my dad a year ago, and something that still deeply affects me is that I somehow predicted his death a week before he died. Ever since then, I feel like something inside me changed emotionally and mentally.. but I don’t think about his death anymore it’s been a while but it does affect me sometimes

My family keeps telling me that I need to help myself first before trying to save everyone else, but I don’t know how to explain it… I just can’t stand seeing my mom still working this hard at her age. It makes me feel desperate to “make it” faster somehow, means like selling my soul basically selling my body keep doing it in a faster way to make more and more and more money..

I’ve been feeling extremely sad lately and I don’t really know if this is normal adjustment to citalopram like why am I still feeling emotional ??