Guest guest Posted August 25, 2000 Report Share Posted August 25, 2000 Dear All, I have suffered from rosacea (apparently fairly mild case, but still always there and sometimes getting much worse) for two years. I have kept it more or less under control with a combination of metrodinazole (0.75%) twice a day and sporadic use of monocycline (100mg per day). However, no real improvements seems to have taken place in the last year or so, in spite of taken care of my diet and having followed all the recommended tips. I have started considering to use some alternative (i.e. as in non-mainstream treatments) - the Sher System seems (at least on paper) as quite suitable for rosacea. Has anyone out there tried it? What were the results? Do you know of anyone that has benefitted from it? Like always, we are all willing to try something that may work, but we are scared of making things even worse. Thanks in advance, Carmen Be whoever you want to be with another.com Just click here: http://another.com/jump.jsp?destDesc=another.com/login.jsp?sig=390 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2000 Report Share Posted August 25, 2000 Hi Carmen If you are looking for a cure for your rosacea in the Sher System, forget it. The Sher System is just about products that are meant to be suitable for people with rosacea and incorporates doing lots of rinsing of the face with tepid water as a natural way of exfoliation. I tried it and found their products to be very expensive for what they were. Instead of filling in the form, I went to London for a consultation with Helen Sherr, thinking that if she saw my skin the treatment might be more appropriate. The consultation fee was £50 but the price was meant to be deductible from the price of the products that she recommended. At the time I had not been diagnosed with rosacea but thought I had it. She said I definitely did not have rosacea but recommended products for sensitive skin. After paying my £50 all she gave me were tiny samples of a pre-wash, a cleanser, and a moisturiser - all of which I reacted to. She said she would just give me these small samples at first and, if I was okay with them, she would post the products proper to me later. I found her to be very blase about my uncomfortable reactions to these products - just recommending that I wait a few days and try the next product each time. She seemed to have no inkling of the distress it can cause when you have a bad reaction to a product. Personally, I felt like I wanted to give the skin a rest for more than a few days before trying the next one. None of the products were any good to me and I felt like I had wasted £50. There was no refund because this was her consultation fee so, if the products don't suit you, you lose the £50. All I got for my £50 was her sitting down and filling in the form for me which I could quite easily have done myself (this was the consultation) and some tiny samples of products which I reacted to. The other way to do it is just to fill in the form and she then recommends products for you to use. This is cheaper but I don't know whether the money you pay for the analysis of the information on the form is redeemable against products. Again, if the products were no good to you, you would not receive any refunds. I did purchase a copy of her video as well in which she shows how to do her skin care regimes and also make up for rosacea. One person I spoke to had been recommended lots of skincare products and make up products too and she had spent around £150. Later, she found she couldn't do the make up and get the same effects as Helen Sherr had so she gave up using it. Later I spoke to someone who had gone to Helen Sherr before she started doing all these products for rosacea and she told me that she was the first person whom she had seen at her clinic with rosacea. Apparently, at that time she was into doing make up for people who wanted to wear make up without looking like they were wearing it. After having seen this person with rosacea and being told how it affected so many people, it seems she then detected a gap in the market for developing products for rosacea. This is what I was told anyway. Some people might have had more success with this 'system' but, for me, I felt like it was a complete waste of time and money. Hazel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 25, 2000 Report Share Posted August 25, 2000 Dear Hazel, Thanks a lot for the quick and detailed answer. That is the kind of thing that I was afraid of...ending up putting your hopes and your money in something that does not work and can even end up making things worse. I suppose that I will be sticking to the traditional treatment. By the way, my dermatologist suggested an oatmilk cleansing bar that seems to go along the lines of the Oatmeal Regime that you have mentioned in your e-mails. In case, that it can be of any use to anyone out there it is called ADERMA (Rhealba Oat Milk Cleansing Bar) and in the UK is available a big branches of Boots. I think it is also quite well known in other European countries (it is produced by Laboratoires Dermatologiques Ducray). I have been using it and it does not provoke any allergic/sensitive reaction on my skin at all. I have been thinking about using it in combination with the Aveeno products that you have mentioned - would it be too much of an inconvenience for you to send the full details of the brand/name/maker of those products). I live quite close to one of the biggest Boots stores and I could not find it.... Thanks again for all the time and effort that you are putting into the group. Carmen -----Original Message----- From : Hazel Roots To : csuarez@...; rosacea-supporteGroups Date : 25 August 2000 13:49:20 Subject : Re: Alternative treatments Hi Carmen > >If you are looking for a cure for your rosacea in the Sher System, forget >it. The Sher System is just about products that are meant to be suitable >for people with rosacea and incorporates doing lots of rinsing of the face >with tepid water as a natural way of exfoliation. > >I tried it and found their products to be very expensive for what they were. >Instead of filling in the form, I went to London for a consultation with >Helen Sherr, thinking that if she saw my skin the treatment might be more >appropriate. The consultation fee was £50 but the price was meant to be >deductible from the price of the products that she recommended. > >At the time I had not been diagnosed with rosacea but thought I had it. She >said I definitely did not have rosacea but recommended products for >sensitive skin. After paying my £50 all she gave me were tiny samples of a >pre-wash, a cleanser, and a moisturiser - all of which I reacted to. She >said she would just give me these small samples at first and, if I was okay >with them, she would post the products proper to me later. I found her to >be very blase about my uncomfortable reactions to these products - just >recommending that I wait a few days and try the next product each time. She >seemed to have no inkling of the distress it can cause when you have a bad >reaction to a product. Personally, I felt like I wanted to give the skin a >rest for more than a few days before trying the next one. > >None of the products were any good to me and I felt like I had wasted £50. >There was no refund because this was her consultation fee so, if the >products don't suit you, you lose the £50. All I got for my £50 was her >sitting down and filling in the form for me which I could quite easily have >done myself (this was the consultation) and some tiny samples of products >which I reacted to. The other way to do it is just to fill in the form and >she then recommends products for you to use. This is cheaper but I don't >know whether the money you pay for the analysis of the information on the >form is redeemable against products. Again, if the products were no good to >you, you would not receive any refunds. > >I did purchase a copy of her video as well in which she shows how to do her >skin care regimes and also make up for rosacea. One person I spoke to had >been recommended lots of skincare products and make up products too and she >had spent around £150. Later, she found she couldn't do the make up and get >the same effects as Helen Sherr had so she gave up using it. > >Later I spoke to someone who had gone to Helen Sherr before she started >doing all these products for rosacea and she told me that she was the first >person whom she had seen at her clinic with rosacea. Apparently, at that >time she was into doing make up for people who wanted to wear make up >without looking like they were wearing it. After having seen this person >with rosacea and being told how it affected so many people, it seems she >then detected a gap in the market for developing products for rosacea. This >is what I was told anyway. > >Some people might have had more success with this 'system' but, for me, I >felt like it was a complete waste of time and money. > >Hazel > > >----------------------------------------------------------------- >Please read the list highlights thoroughly before posting to the whole group. See http://rosacea.ii.net/toc.html > >When replying, please delete all text at the end of your email that isn't necessary for your message. > >To leave the list send an email to rosacea-support-unsubscribeegroups > > Be whoever you want to be with another.com Just click here: http://another.com/jump.jsp?destDesc=another.com/login.jsp?sig=390 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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