I started the Rosacea Support Group on the internet in 1998. It started as an email group hosted at makelist.com. The email service became egroups.com and later it was acquired by Yahoo! The email group is now hosted at Yahoo!Groups.
The email group has grown slowly and steadily over the years to more than 7000 members.
When I changed my ISP in 2000, I decided to host some rosacea pages at rosacea.ii.net - that being the second home for my web pages.
In July 2005 Rosacea News was born. This was an attempt to collect all the interesting bits and pieces of news related to rosacea, as they happened. As the number of news items approaches 300, it was time to consolidate all of the existing Rosacea Support Group pages and Rosacea News pages together.
So what you see now is the third generation of the web pages for the Rosacea Support Group. Most pages on this site will now allow you to leave a comment at the bottom. Please feel free to comment on articles and pages that interest you.
In 2003 I appeared in the health section of the West Australian Newspaper. Here is a scan of the 2 pages, if you’d like to have a read.
In April 2008 I was mentioned in 2 articles in the New York Times. The first was an article mentioned a book on rosacea that was written by a computer: He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work). The second article was titled In a Perfect World, Rosacea Remains a Problem.
Reliable information about rosacea can be hard to find on the internet. If you agree that this site is useful and would like to link to me, please link to http://rosacea-support.org and call the link Rosacea Support Group in the anchor text. Thanks for your help.
What do you and don’t you like about Rosacea News and the Rosacea Support Group ? Is there something you’d like to see ? Please email me with your thoughts.
David Pascoe.
pascoedj+rosacea@gmail.com
Credits: This site is run using the Wordpress blogging platform. The blog layout was based on the `3 Columns Copyblogger Theme.’ The forum is using phpBB. The site is hosted at siteground.com.
11 comments ↓
David
Its nice to get to finally see you. I love the article, your skin looks great now.
Thanks for the comments. It took quite a few years, but yeah now my skin looks great and most people will never know. I still wear a tinted sunscreen everyday to cover that ever present redness though.
thanks David for creating a “place” where we can share our rosacea problems…I’m glad u are finally fine…thanks again
David
I have sebaceous glands on both sides of my nose and it looks like i could be getting a bulbous nose.I went to four skin drs. and they said i won’t get rhinophyma of the nose.What do you think and can i help my nose?
thank you
Pete
Went to a dermatologist for the first time yesterday. I am just now learning about rosacea. The DR prescribed metrogel and Oracea. I am not crazy about the idea of taking an antiobiotic, but I also want the most effective treatment. After looking on the internet today, I am more concerned with side effects of the topical cream.
Now I am wondering should I be trying over the counter products like Eucrin first?
Hi Pete,
Great to see you posting on the forum as well. Hope you get some good help there as well.
Hi Stacy,
Oracea is a low dose antibiotic so it should give you much less problems compared to regular, higher doses. Also metrogel is a good treatment that works well. Some people can’t tolerate it due to sensitive skin, but if you can tolerate them, you should see some good benefits. All the best,
davidp.
Hi,
I just joined the site. David treatments have you used and what eventually worked? When were you diagnosed with rosacea? How many years did you have it before getting treatment? Did that affect the results? Sorry for all the questions;-)
Thanks
Michelle(Blue on the rosacea support group)
Hi Michelle,
on the right hand side under David’s Pages are links to a couple of pages where I waffle on about various treatments that I have used over time. Hopefully those will give you a good idea of what I’ve used so far.
davidp.
Hi David,
Thanks for replying to my message.
couldnt find David’s pages to the right–I went into search and that pulled up your pages–just wondered if you could tell me under what headings I would find the links;-)
Michelle
In the right hand column, there are headings Subscribe, Recent Articles, Recent Comments, Spotlighted Articles, _David’s Pages_, Products, Subscribe via RSS.
Hello,
could you recommend a face-cooling gel/creat/lotion that will help keep my face cool (and reduce prickly heat) through out the day.
thank you
Peter Haynes
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