Dear Doctor,

i am sunil from kerala. I am26 years old , physically very fit. I am 5'10" and 72 Kg. From the last two years i am going through a wide range of skin problems. I used to get pimples on my face, underarms, pelvic region and scalp sometimes i never paid attention to them thinking that that is due to the age factor. Around two years back i got a lot of pimples on my hair, on showing it to a doctor i was diagonsed with FOLLICLITIES and i was put on augmentin 325 mg two times a day for 10 days. after tis i was perfrctly fine for 6 months after which i went to the doctor again and the same medicine was prescribed. Again there was no problems till around five months.

Now in December 2010 the situaution became very bad i had a lot of damaged folliclities on scalp, face and my pillow cover used to be full of blood in the morning, so per force i had to sleep on my stomach.

I approached a skin specialist who put me on 625 mg Augmentin for 5 days BD and again same dose for another 5 days along with Mupricin gel along with deriva cream for face.

After this i was given doxycillin for 15 days. I was perfect for another month but again the problem started to grow.

Again i approached the doctor , as this time it was the starting stage he put me on doxycillin( one per day) for 15 days and there wasa marked improvement. So he put me on the same medicine for 1 month more and this continued for a total of 3 months. But again the problem again reappeared with more vigour i lost a lot of hairs from the scalp and it was impossible to sleep or comb my hairs.

Now the doctor put me on minocyclin( one per day) along with 8 X shampoo and vitamin tablets. There has been improvement but there is no complete healing. I keep on getting cysts , pimples on my face and a lot of folliclles are painful and the hairfall has also increased. I am now diagnosed with FOLLICLITIS DECALVAN along with ACNE VULGARIS.

With this medication the intensity of the disease has offcourse reduced but there are pimples on my face, chest, scalp and sometimes the pimples on the face become so big like a cyst and last for about 10 days and disfigures the face and the biggest problem is to i have to scracth myhead and pubic areas a lot and there is blood spots on my pilloow cover.

The doctor has also tried ISOTRETINOIN 10 mg also for 10 days but there was no help.

The blood tests, hb,tlc,cholestrol all is normal.The situation is aggravating and i am on medicines from last two years and even with medication there is very little improvement.

PLEASE HELP!!!!!

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