Re: mild rosacea and laser

April 26, 2002

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I just asked my new derm # 5, i think, if I was a good candidate for

the laser. I to have moderate to mild redness but uncontrollable

swelling and it is progressing. She told me i wasnt bad enough. How

bad do you have to be? I want to stop it before it gets bad. Go

figure.

Lee

wrote:

> Has anyone with mild rosacea gotten photoderm,vbeam or pulse dye?

Are

> doctors even willing to treat patients who are not very red?? my

> rosacea is progressing rather rapidly and i want to put an end to

it

> asap.

> Please shed some light on this --thanks.

>

April 28, 2002

> ,

>

> I just asked my new derm # 5, i think, if I was a good candidate

for

> the laser. I to have moderate to mild redness but uncontrollable

> swelling and it is progressing. She told me i wasnt bad enough. How

> bad do you have to be? I want to stop it before it gets bad. Go

> figure.

> Lee

I know what you mean! In his book, Dr. Nase recommends treatment in

the early stages to prevent it from getting worse...yet how are we

supposed to prevent anything if the laser doctors aren't even willing

to treat us?? (and this is to assume that topicals etc. aren't

helping..)

Basically right now i have a mild pinkness on my cheeks chin and

forehead and my nose now too..after a humid hot wave last week i was

flushing for probably 2 or 3 days straight and afterwards ive had a

pretty bad nose flush every day since and its almost always pink now.

in certain lighting u cant tell the pinkness is there cuz my skintone

is pale yellow ...but in natural light its very obvious. ive

scheduled an appointment with a holistic derm and am gonna try to see

if anything he prescribes can help control the redness as well as the

flushing (which for me is almost as much spontaneous flushing as it

is trigger-induced flushing, so that kind of makes me wonder whehter

drugs such as clonidine will help.) i tried nasalcrom for my nose but

it doesn't seem to be having much of an effect...i have a few pimples

too and overall skin tone is very poor now. (dry flaky etc)

oh well, as always,any advice is welcome. i have one more week of

school left and plan to make use of my next 4 months getting this

rosacea under control. i feel like if theres a time to puruse

laser,this is it, since during school there's no way i can " hide "

post-laser and recuperate without letting the world see! right now i

am looking into photoderm as well as vbeam....i saw one picture of

the purpura caused from pulse dye laser and almost had a heart attack

so i'm not sure if i'll consider PDL..i believe the picture was on

cosmetixlaser.com. so far, at the top of my to-do list after seeing

my regular derm and my new holistic derm is to buy an aloe vera plant

=) figure it cant hurt,as i havent reacted negatively to aloe in the

past.

i also got blood tested for a bunch of problems including irritable

bowel syndrome, hyperthyroidism, lupus, ANA, chem screen, H Pylori,

and a few others and my doc said they all came back negative.

this disease is soooo frustrating. !!!!! it's embarrassing to have my

face changing in front of my friends..i only wish i got this when i

was older..i think i could deal with it much better if i were 30 than

19. sorry i always end up venting on this board but there's no one

else to complain to except my poor parents who are probably as

stressed out about this as i am.

April 28, 2002