For 18 years, I've had impetigo chronically. I can rarely make it 10 days without an outbreak. It is so bad in my eyelids that I can no longer read, look at a cell phone, watch tv, etc. If I look at a cell phone to type 5 text messages in one day, I will have outbreaks. I've taken dozens of antibiotics. The only things that have helped have been cutting out citrus fruit. But I starve myself out of fear that food may be causing this. I eat cereal with water, chick and rice and nothing else. Nothing helps. I am a grown man who has trudged through life with this disease while half the doctors I go to say I'm making it up- that someone cannot have impetigo this long. I am about to lose my family and career because I cannot mentally handle going into work looking like I've got yellow gummy bears hanging off my face and eyelids. I've tried Keflex, bactroban, doxycycline. Mayo Clinic prescribed me leprosy medicine (Shot in the dark). Has anyone else had this and how have you succeeded in combatting it?