Rosacea Support Community

Morning:

-Liquid Neutrogena, Facial Cleansing Formula, fragrance-free and/or La Roche-Posay Toleriane cleanser
-La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water
-all over: NaPCA/HA moisture serum* to damp skin
-t-zone: Paula's Choice Skin Balancing Moisture Gel to damp skin
-cheeks: Cerave cream or lotion to damp skin

Evening:

-Paula's Choice Hydralight One Step Face Cleanser for normal/oily skin
-La Roche-Posay Thermal Spring Water
-all over: NaPCA/HA moisture serum* to damp skin
-t-zone: Paula's Choice 1% Exfoliating BHA lotion
-cheeks: Noritate 1%, and Cerave if needed on top

Other medications: Oracea, 40 mg once daily

Avoid: dairy, soda, and sometimes vinegar and tomato products. The latter two seem to sometimes flare me, sometimes not.

I also use Bare Minerals make-up,...

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As a Rosacea sufferer myself I wanted to gather as much information as humanly possible. I have compiled this information and placed it at [removed]

I would be very greatful if everybody could have a look at offer any stories that we can add to the site to really get the condition Rosacea a little more attention.

Thanks

I came here a while ago after I'd met a gal named Megan on Facebook who was successful in curing her Acne Rosacea by following an elimination diet, using a special cream and having zinc.

I tried her protocol (minus the cream, since I'm in US and she's in Australia, I believe) for three months. But I kept screwing up. I couldnt keep clear in my head which foods i could eat and which i couldnt and kept having the 'wrong' foods by mistake.

In the meantime, friends kept suggesting I look in to Bee Wilder's Candida program as they were reading of others on her forum who were being healed of their rosacea.

Since her program called for cutting out all grains and dairy, i refused for a while. But as I continued to fail on the 'elimination' diet, i decided to read up on Bee's program and eventually began following it in March of this year. I had already weaned myself off of the antiB i'd been taking for 10 months (i'd been using a topical script for 2.5 yrs previously).

I am just shy of...

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I always suffered with slight eruptions on my skin . Right back to my teens but although at the time I thought it the end of the world and felt so ugly on reflection they were just outbreaks... I'd get spots before or during my periods and my face would just clear up when it was that time of the month again !!! I got Rosacea on the onset of my 2nd pregnancy , my daughter Sinead who is now 20 so almost 21 yrs ago !!! I didn't do much about it due to being pregnant so just suffered ! I breast fed my daughter for almost a year and then fell pregnant again and again and again !!! I had 1 pregnancy before my daughters, my son Patrick and although my face broke out slightly in the first 3 months my skin was never as good for the rest of my pregnancy and during breast feeding right up until i fell pregnant on Sinead !!

By the time my 4th child was born and after breast feeding her for 2 years I decided I would look for some help with my Rosacea !! I went down the natural road attending the Naturopathy...

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Found this neat site. Go to MSN, click on "Lifestyles", click on "Makeover Tool". Now you can take a picture of yourself from your shoulders up, with your hair pulled back and no makeup. Download this picture to your computer. In pink you will see, "Upload a new photo". Now you simply follow the instructions. You can apply concealer, foundation, etc. It helps you match colours to your skin. Have fun. This site has helped me choose better makeup options for hiding my rosacea.

Kim