rosacea , dry skin, vbeam in NY

June 12, 2002

Hi everyone, i just wanted to say that this is an amazing

group....keep it up.

Please read the following letter, and if you can, please respond to

it!

The thing is that im only 19 and have been experiencing severe hot

flashes a couple of times a day. MY face gets so red, it is so

horrible. From the chest up i feel like i am in the oven because

that's how hot i am, meanwhile, the rest of my body is freezing

cold. This whole thing started a year ago, and i wouldn't say that

at that period i was under a big stress. I went from doctor to

doctor,and some doctors suspected that i might have an early

menapause sysmptoms and low estrogen and they ran some tests on me

and put me on the Pill. I've been on it for about 4 months but the

flashes don't go away at all. I usually have these flashes when i

am stressed, excited, angry, happy etc. and usually when i am scared

of having them. In other words, when i am with my friends or the

attention is on me, i am so afraid of having these flashes, that i

kind of trigger them by thinking about it. Also when i am in a hot

room or wear warm clothes, so in other words, i can have them even

without being stresses or happy. Also, after these " hot flushes or

flashes " started a year ago, the skin on my face has become so bad.

I mean it literaly peals off. When i go to shower or when i wash my

face, i have to scrube off the skin because if i don't , then if it

dries up, and my skin becomes tight and cracks. I ve been to a lot

of derms,some think its rosacea, but some of them aren't sure if this

is rosacea, after i tell them that it comes and goes a couple of

times a day. I am now on elidel and it helps a little with the dry

skin, but that's about it. I also am looking for a doc who treats

with vbeam in New York, someone who is very experienced and is not

afraid to dig a little deeper to help a suffering patient.

Please respond asap. If someone out there is experiencing the same

thing, i would gladly read your story.

Any info would be greatly appreciated

Thank you, and sorry for such a long letter

lildilema

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