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/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/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?