Safe application, do you wear gloves?!

Well for the Clob it's because the treatment isn't easily absorbed, it just lies on the skin and to be as effective as possible it needs to be slowly rubbed in so that it has a chance of getting deeper down where it is needed. 

Kathleen, clob is so potent we want to get it absorbed where it belongs, not melting over a wider are of healthy skin. Advantan is less potent so you use more and there's somewhat les risk of thinning healthy skin.

The Advantan fatty ointment is great so maybe it should be the preferred one being prescribed. Patients could ask for it.

kathleen, did you ask to be put on Advantan?  Did your doctor explain why he prescribed that instead of clobetasol?   I am thinking about calling my gyn on Monday to see if she will try me on Advantan iinstead of Clob. I am still not responding to Clob. I don't know if it is the LS or a reaction to the ointment or something else, but I am getting worse.   I have another 1 1/2 month before app't at vulva clinic specialist.  I'm not using the Clob. now because I am fairly sure I am having a reaction to it. Anyone had a bad reaction to steroids?

 

I was having what I thought was a reaction to Clob, but it turned out to be a yeast infection. I had no internal itching like I usually had with a yeast infection. I was simply getting redder and more sore everywhere I applied the ointment. I went to see my doctor to see if I was using it incorrectly. One day I thought 'I used to use Canesten creme for this kind of itching' and so I tried it. Within 20 minutes - relief! I kept applying the Canesten and it went away in a few days. The redness and pain was growing and becoming unbearable. It was explained to me (by a different doctor, not the one who saw me) that because the steroid creme is so powerful, it will help amp up/feed a yeast infection and make it worse. I've not described that very well. I took away that if I think I'm getting a yeast infection it is important to treat it immediately. 

I continued with the ointment and I have no problems with it now. 

Thank you Elle, maybe it is a yeast infection.  I know I am miserable...can't sit, walk, sleep.  Where do you get canesten cream and is there anoher name for it?  

Canesten is the brand name for Clotrimazole creme. It's over the counter at pharmacies in North America. 

A GP can prescribe Advantan Fatty Ointment for you. 

I see a team of women specialists at the Mercy Hospital for Women in Melbourne.

Maybe head to the GP and ask for Advantan to try. That is too long to wait and be without some treatment.

All the best Judy!

 

Thank you Kathleen, I am calling tomorrow and ask for it.

Kathleen, if I recall correctly it's you who has LS over quite an extensive area of your skin. Am I right? If so, that's probably why you've been prescribed a weaker topical corticosteroid.

It was not always around the anus, that is recent years! 

I have been on the Advantan fatty ointment for more years than that.

It is on a fairly large area now.

I think this one is more effective though as it is a fatty ointment which is a thick consistency and really easy to apply.

Kathleen, did you have the white patches on all those areas ?  When it spreads does it always start with the white patches and/or the itching then goes raw ?  I wonder though if the Clob may prevent it from spreading better than Advantan ?  

I will ask next time I go to the Mercy hospital about the clob vs advantan!

I think that sometimes we miss putting the cream or ointment because there is no thing to warn us.

I did not even know it was LS around the anus for a start and they were not sure either for a while.