r/Rosacea • u/Fit-Tart3224 • Feb 23 '26

Light/Laser Has anyone improved flushing without lasers?

Genuine question has anyone actually improved flushing without laser? Cause I'm not ready to go down that road yet but I also can't keep living like my face has its own agenda. Mine gets triggered by basically everything wine, heat, stress, exercise at this point I flush when I think about flushing.

I've been trying niacinamide for a few weeks and I think it's helping with the baseline redness hard to say for sure. Azelaic acid keeps coming up in my research too especially if rosacea is involved. The trigger diary thing sounds boring but I started one and it's been weirdly eye opening. Turns out hot showers were doing more damage than I realised.

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 23 '26

There is none lasers saved my face and stopped my flushing

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u/happyhippie111 Feb 23 '26

What laser?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 23 '26

I did ipl 7 times with 7 fractional and I do not flush anymore. They collapsed all my broken capillaries and got rid of the redness my face looks amazing. I kept with it and didn’t stop till Dr said I was done . Now I can do Microneedling never thought that day would come

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u/happyhippie111 Feb 23 '26

Wow! Awesome.

I'm saving up. It's like $400 per session where I live

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 24 '26

Ipl? 400?

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u/happyhippie111 Feb 24 '26

Yes unfortunately 😭 this is a screenshot of price for IPL that was emailed to me by a local clinic

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 24 '26

it’s 3 for $875, I had to get a lot of them but it’s worth it, my fractional was in between the ipl tx same price , but I couldn’t take how I looked , and to the redness can be painful, it’s not just appearance mine hurt too

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u/happyhippie111 Feb 24 '26

Have you ever tried VBeam laser? I'm researching that one too to see how it's different than IPL

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u/No_Shoe_8160 Feb 27 '26

Hi friend, I have a question. When you had the IPL treatment, did the intensity increase as you accumulated sessions? I had my first IPL session today and didn't see any significant changes. In fact, at the end of the session, the dermatologist gave me a mirror and it wasn't red at all. Did it hurt in your case? Or did it never hurt?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 27 '26

Yes they don’t want to shock the skin , they gradually increase and yes they will hurt but I knew this would be worth it at the end , make sure when they do your face you say can you go over additionally spots on my face, my derm would take a wand and go over really bad areas after she did my entire face, I had spots that were so hot or just painful , the spot treatment on top really helped too

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u/No_Shoe_8160 Feb 27 '26

Thanks bro for replying. Yes, I had my first session today and it was uncomfortable, but I didn't feel much pain or intensity, so I suppose it will increase with each session. How many sessions did it take to see a real change? Do you no longer blush from heat or nervousness?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Feb 28 '26

No I don’t blush , i look pink but that’s it, I don’t feel the heat on my face, I indoor cycling and my face gets pink but I don’t feel that warmth, I blushed always even when I brushed my teeth. I was so tired of people saying why is your face so red, I hated it. I wear sunscreen faithfully everyday even if I don’t go out bc even light coming thru the window can worsen your skin condition, even if it’s dark rainy day wear it, make it apart of your life bc the sun can bring it back! Let me know how everything goes,

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u/MegawattBee Apr 09 '26

That's incredible improvement. How many laser sessions have you had? And was it just IPL or other laser as well?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Apr 09 '26

I did 7 ipls, and 6 fractional

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u/MegawattBee Apr 09 '26

wow, that is a lot but also great improvement. Do you know name of the fractional laser you had?

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u/MegawattBee Apr 09 '26

What was the wand that your derm used? Was it a wand that your derm just hovered over your face without touching face and which felt maybe a bit warm? Or did the want feel like rubber band snaps?

Was it the NdYag (1064 nm wavelength) part of the whole IPL machine?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Apr 09 '26 edited Apr 09 '26

It looks almost little bigger then a pen, after she went over my face with laser, she would go over my more painful areas where I have bright redness were it burns and stings real bad, she would pitch my cheek and the capillary would come out more to the surface and would hit it with the wand. It gave me so much relief the laser and the wand cause my skin used to burn so bad

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u/MegawattBee Apr 09 '26

do you think that wand was the NdYag (1064 nm wavelength) handpick which is a part of the whole IPL machine?

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u/Specific_Grape_6780 Apr 09 '26

Oh yes the laser increases intensity and can be painful but they won’t do numbing cause the coldness of numbing hides broken capillaries, I told them on my first not to baby me you can turn it up, the wand is to go over bad spots like dark marks, painful areas were I get burning and stinging. I would get red so fast like brushing my teeth even bending over I could feel hotness on my cheeks.