Comments on: rosacea and stress: trial participants wanted http://rosacea-support.org/rosacea-and-stress-trial-participants.html Where the rosacea community meets to support each other Fri, 19 Mar 2010 01:13:25 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anita T. Monroe http://rosacea-support.org/rosacea-and-stress-trial-participants.html/comment-page-1#comment-32022 Anita T. Monroe Thu, 24 Dec 2009 00:45:20 +0000 http://rosacea-support.org/rosacea-and-stress-trial-participants-wanted.html#comment-32022 I developed Rosacea many years ago, only a few weeks after giving birth to a child. I had not wanted children. My husband deliberately misused birth control to create a pregnancy. I had grown up in a dysfundtional family, and having a child was torture to me. When I first asked for medical treatment for Rosacea, the doctors in Virginia where I was living knew nothing of the condition and thought that it was caused by some psychological problem. The flushing symptoms stayed with me for years until I moved to Florida and lived in a climate with sea air. Now I am living in my hometown in northwestern South Carolina and the symptoms are all coming back. When the flushing is at its worse, I can't go out of the house and get quite depressed. If I have to go out and people see me, they stare and make me extremely uncomfortable. I try to avoid all the triggers, take a low dose antibiotic and use one of the new creams. I have seen a small improvment, but the condition is still there. I've tried to just be stoic about it. After all, there are much worse problems, but this one has blighted my life and caused me to withdraw from social life when that has been to my detriment. If you have any suggestions, I'd be glad to get them. If there is anything that I can do to hlep with a medical history, you can have that too. I had thought for some time that this problem might be related to sexual functioning - or nonfunctioning. I developed an aversion to sex and learned to have orgasms later in life. I can't tell if there is any benefit in allaying Rosacea. I don't have extreme flushing all the time, very little of it during the summer. It seems to be worse in winter when the air is dry and indoor heat is running. There seems to be a link to drinking alcohol (Zut alors!!) so I can't have that pleasure with my friends and family. Do you know if Rosacea leads to any other illnesses? Anita T. Monroe RubatoM@aol.com I developed Rosacea many years ago, only a few weeks after giving birth to a child. I had not wanted children. My husband deliberately misused birth control to create a pregnancy. I had grown up in a dysfundtional family, and having a child was torture to me. When I first asked for medical treatment for Rosacea, the doctors in Virginia where I was living knew nothing of the condition and thought that it was caused by some psychological problem. The flushing symptoms stayed with me for years until I moved to Florida and lived in a climate with sea air. Now I am living in my hometown in northwestern South Carolina and the symptoms are all coming back. When the flushing is at its worse, I can’t go out of the house and get quite depressed. If I have to go out and people see me, they stare and make me extremely uncomfortable. I try to avoid all the triggers, take a low dose antibiotic and use one of the new creams. I have seen a small improvment, but the condition is still there. I’ve tried to just be stoic about it. After all, there are much worse problems, but this one has blighted my life and caused me to withdraw from social life when that has been to my detriment. If you have any suggestions, I’d be glad to get them. If there is anything that I can do to hlep with a medical history, you can have that too. I had thought for some time that this problem might be related to sexual functioning – or nonfunctioning. I developed an aversion to sex and learned to have orgasms later in life. I can’t tell if there is any benefit in allaying Rosacea. I don’t have extreme flushing all the time, very little of it during the summer. It seems to be worse in winter when the air is dry and indoor heat is running. There seems to be a link to drinking alcohol (Zut alors!!) so I can’t have that pleasure with my friends and family. Do you know if Rosacea leads to any other illnesses?

Anita T. Monroe
RubatoM@aol.com

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