I had my 1st flare up was when I was married & expecting my 3rd child after I had lost my 2nd child only 12mths b4 & I was told by the doctors that it came about because of the extreme stress I was dealing with, but after reading everyone here I realised that I actually had it years b4 while at school when I was 15-18yrs old but I only had the red nose & part facial redness but no pimples or anything else.

So it while I was pregnant for the 3rd time I was 25yrs & had alot of redness & pimples (though not acne) from my nose up to & including my hairline, cheeks &
eyelids … it was very embarassing & yes other people were very rude, so I avoided leaving the house as much as possible.
I was finally diagnosed with Rosacea (after having it for 7yrs) but I was told by a very good skin specialist that while there was medication I could take, it was best to wait until after I had all my children, then I had another child 16mths later & commenced treatment 2mths after that.
All I took was a course of very strong medication over a 1 mth period though I dont know what it was called, which is a pity because I could so do with it now.
I was so lucky after that because I had absolutely no problems as it had totally disappeared & I was free of it for 25yrs ….. THEN it came back after another bout of extreme stress 2yrs ago & has slowly got worse, moreso in the last 2wks … but unlucky for me, my previous skin specialist retired only 9 months.

So Ive been on the rollarcoaster of try this & that …Doxycillian worked but only to a point, it eased the redness & slowed down the pimply rash & I had no side affects but it just couldnt get passed the last hurdle of completely ridding it, then I tried Roaccatane for 3mths with Sigma court cream n had to stop re side affects & the continual blood tests every month were taking their toll as well but I felt the cream worked better along with the QV face products, then I was told to just to put a cream called Epiduo on the effected areas of my forehead, cheeks & around my eyes & wulla … it was gone & that was 4mths ago.

BUT it was short lived because it came back with a vengenance 5wks ago, because of all the medication I have had in the last 6mths & the fact that Ive now lost my job thru no fault of my own & I got a sty on both eyelids that refused to go away & had to be lanced & I had to receive injections in my checkbones (yes they hurt but briefly), which helped & fixed the styes but made the Rosacea flare up so severly so now its red as red, pimply & very itchy but it has gone into my eye areas as well so Ive been given Rozen cream & Diclocil capsules, while Ive only been taking this lot for 3 days, I dont feel like its working & they have realised that my Rosacea is brought on by severe stress … lucky me because the only time I feel no stress is when Im asleep.

Sorry guys for waffling on but truly reading everyone’s emails has given me a lot to think about & I dont feel so alone either now …….

I probably also had rosecea without realising it.

Since then I have developed rosecea to my nose, forehead and cheeks. I was prescribed the usual Rozex which worked well for perhaps two months but is now ineffective. I remembered other posts discussing the possible causes of the condion such as yeasts, infections ect. Some of this seemed pretty close to what causes dandfuff so I bought some Nizoral and tried it on my face. I used it neat on a wet face and left it on for five minutes before rinsing and patting dry and moisturising with Simple Kind To Skin hydrating moisturizer. After a mild burning sensation and an initial increase in redness by the next day all my symptoms had dimished. I then did this twice a week and found it very effective at controlling the redness, itching, scaling, scabs and white pustules. Now I leave it until the itching and burning sets in again before using the Nizoral and leaving it on for 3 minutes.

It is now 6 months since I began this and it still seems to be working.

I have read about some of the dangers of lasers. Some can allegedly (and paradoxically) leave the skin with patchy white areas; apparently because the treatment is very effective in those patches but they have not been blended well enough with surrounding areas, so a clear line is evident. The problem (if people have problems with lasers),may be the competence of the therapist in question rather than lasers themselves. Mine is a specialist in laser treatment.

Again, we are not all the same (our unfortunate condition is certainly not), but i found this laser treatment to be very effective and long lasting for my red nose and cheek problem, and Elidel the best for my dermatitis problem. I hope that may help someone else.

Thanks and aplogies for my spelling, its crap:)

Ill put the link here anyway…
http://www.purpleemu.com/

I suspect (I have a PhD in Physiology) that Rosacea will turn out to be several things nestling under the one label, and that different treatments will help different cases, especially as it can be misdiagnosed. The Elidel worked on my dermatitis, but not the Rosacea, but the dermatitis had been diagnosed as rosacea for a while, so that would explain it. Also, cortisone had been somewhat effective for me before, but now is not, so conditions change, or we adapt to various treatments over time.

It’s been 6 days not even a blooming week and my face looks like a blind person could use my face as braille!

Help anyone, does it get worse before it gets better on the LTD disks? I lost my letter of instructions so am just going bythe website!

Hope I hear from someone as in close to ditching them and rubbing to get some antibiotics x

Hates the colour red… yep, Im a wanted man you know;) lol.
Nooooo, just thought id put that out there, shows im trying to be honest with people, theres alot of sceptics out there who think, if they dont know much about the sourse, then they must be corrupt or trying to make money or something, lol believe me, on other forums there where on or two who were dam rude and dont deserve help.