r/Rosacea

I've been dealing with this redness for about 3 years and nothing has helped. My face has also had a lot of rough texture that I thought was dry skin that no amount of moisturizer would touch. I recently changed my skincare routine and that has helped the texture and the redness has gone down a little. Current, new routine is Prequel Gleanser, hypochlorous spray, haruharu milky toner, Prequel redness serum and AM/PM moisturizer. Any suggestions on routine? I did use azelaic acid for a while but didnt notice any changes so I removed it last month to keep things simple. I have not been diagnosed with any skin issues but I have an appointment with a dermatologist in the next few weeks. The first picture is now and the second picture was a month ago.

I’ve never in my teenage years wore makeup other than mascara and lipgloss due to years of struggling with my rosacea and haven’t had a mother figure to ask about this kind of stuff. Are there any specific brands or different types of makeup to use to cover my rosacea (in the uk and not too expensive)

This is kinda of an old photo but i have acne aswell which doesn’t help, my skins not so bad at the moment though

Just looking for any sort of advice / reassurance really. I’ve suffered with what you can see in the pictures attached for years, and it’s gradually gotten worse.

I’ve been to see a dermatologist specialist privately (I’m in UK) and they told me it’s NOT rosacea, and it was just a “ruddy complexion”. But I find this hard to believe, it has all the characteristics of rosacea.

During a flare up it stings.. a lot.. and is very sore. It’s also very reactive to temp changes. If I sit in an air conned room, or in the winter and I’m outside then go inside to a warmer room, it’s guaranteed to flare up.

Nothing I do cools it, or soothes it.

It’s destroying my mental health, as I’m stuck in an anxious loop of waiting for it to happen, then when I feel it starting I panic and the more I panic the worse it gets, and my throat also blotches.

Any ideas / advice / treatments welcome, as I’m at my whits end.

Community please help because I am at my wits and wallet's end with my suddenly advancing rosacea. I have had it since college but I'm the last 5 years it's just gotten progressively worse. I just can't find ANYTHING to help my redness, raised texture, breakouts and never ending dryness.

This has been going on for almost 2 years and nothing seems to work. I've changed my routine countless times, I'm down to just Prequel Redness wash and Bubble Power Wave Super Hydrating Moisturizer 2x daily, with Azelaic acid 1-2x a week and NOTHING is working. The AA helps but only for a few hours and then it's back to dry and bumpy and the breakouts are SUPER ANNOYING.

For reference I am a 40yo female, living in Central FL so our humidity SUCKS and I'm fairly certain my hormones are already at war in perimenapause.

Any help, even just "hey it'll get better" would be appreciated. I am going to look for a dermatologist but I refuse as much as I can to using medicated items because again I live in FL and avoiding the sun is impossible and I won't push it with RX creams.

TYIA

As title suggests, over the last few months I’ve noticed my face is very red and lots of bumps that weren’t there before. Also very sensitive, warm to touch. Posted before picture for reference. I thought my skin barrier was just damaged from sun exposure.

I stopped most of my previous skin care to see if that’s what it was. Now use just cerave hydrating face wash which my face loves and avene cicaplast which doesn’t seem to be helping.

I never clued in that I might now have rosacea until family doctor mentioned it before referring me to dermatologist which takes 3-5 months to see in Canada.

Hello,

Is there any other method other than V-Beam or IPL to remove the redness.
Have anybody had success with isotretinoin microdose? Or low dose tretinoin?

Here is my current routine:

AM:
* Wash face with water
* Purito Seoul Wonder Releaf Centella Serum Unscented (just started using)
* CeraVe Facial Moisturizing lotion PM
* La Roche Posay tinted sunscreeen anthelios spf 50

PM:
* CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser
* Azelaic Acid 20%
* CeraVe Facial Moisturizing lotion PM
* La Roche Posay Cicaplast baume b5+ as last step 2-3 times weekly

I work in a kindergarten, and the kids started asking “do you wear blush”😅 so it has been bothering me since forever

Did it help your Redness (Erythema) and did it help get rid of lumps and spots? If so how long did it take to see results?

Help find this post: Doxycycline, 40mg, low dose, efracea, Erythema, redness, anti inflammatory,

Been on ivermectin almost 2 months. Def has helped but not enough.

I use kheils daily face wash
The cicaplast during the day

At night same thing then ivermectin on top.

Hi! I’m a 28F and have had rosacea for about 5 years. My rosacea is almost entirely vascular. I don’t really get papules or pustules. My issue is persistent redness and visible capillaries/telangiectasias that seem to be structural rather than inflammatory.

So far I’ve tried:
Azelaic acid
Ivermectin
Metronidazole
Rhofade
Low-dose doxycycline (40 mg)
IPL (full treatment)
PDL (could only afford one but yielded no results)

Unfortunately, nothing has made a meaningful difference in the persistent redness.

Has anyone else had this really stubborn vascular type of rosacea? If so, did you eventually find something that actually helped? At this point I feel like I have to wear makeup just to feel confident, and I’d love to hear success stories from people with a similar presentation.

I always seem to get these white bumps around my nose, and it gets worse in the summer. Does anyone else have this problem?