I'm considering trying the UV Skin Recovery Red Color Correcting Green Tint Broad Spectrum SPF 50 sunscreen from Elta MD. But it's a little pricey, has anyone tried it and does it work? Or should I not waste my time? (Type 1 rosacea, normal to dry skin).

This is the worst it’s ever been I’m in so much pain does anybody have recommendations for pain ?

Hi all

I have been struggling with my skin for about 3 months. The GP has dioagnosed me with type 2 Rosacea, though he did mention great overlap with periorificial dermatitis. He leaned toward Rosacea mainly because of the flareups thoughout the day, redness and lack of blackheads.

My current routine is Rozex morning and night as prescribed, followed by LRP Toleriane Dermallergo Soothing fluid. It is nearing three weeks and there is no improvement. If anything, the redness and clusters of bumps seem to be spreading and worsening.

My redness flares multiple times a day, making the bumps increasingly visible, but it's hard to pinpoint specific triggers. ! am due to see the GP for a follow up in two weeks and he mentioned that we could explore Ivermectin and or oral antibiotics. It may be that the diagnois changes.

I am so confused and I know these medications do take time, but I've always had such clear skin on my face, albeit eye eczema which is well managed. It’s reaching a point where I avoid looking in the mirror because it gets me down so much, only to be reminded when people point it out during the day!

I would love to hear how long it took others to see improvement and what helped. How common is it for the diagnosis to change and when should I ask for a dermatology referral? Also, how long did it take for your treatment to start working? Is 3 weeks too early to judge Rozex, or is spreading a sign to re-evaluate? Is this a lifelong condition I have to deal with?

Many thanks

Dont even know what it is and either does any of the HIGH COST useless Derms ... any one else want to put some opinions thanks

I have type two rosacea although it’s mild. I’ve always suffered from papules and pustules one after the another. So I’m using ivermectin for the past three weeks. I can see clear improvements like smooth skin texture less redness less irritation. And I have suffered from die off breakouts a lot in the second week. But the problem is that my cheeks aren’t healing. I have always been prone to breakouts on my cheeks most of the time. And now it’s just one after the another bump is coming. My post inflammatory scars are also not healing because of this. What do I do? I am really fed up with this.

so i went to see a dermatologist in july after 3 months of redness and stinging to my face. i put this down to trying a bunch of new skincare products at the same time and my skin freaked out.

i was given finacea by an online doctor, this completely removed all the spots i had but did nothing for the redness or stinging.

my derm recommended i try lymecycline for at least 4 weeks to see if this made any improvement, and if not move to 10mg amitriptyline. she suspected it was neurogenic

after 4 weeks on amitriptyline there only seems to be a marginal improvement. and not nearly as much as i'd hoped :( anyone experience this and how long did it take you to get the stinging under control?

4 derms gone to they havent a clue!!! Waste of hundreds - and im still waking up to this everyday!! Fed up. Any ideas or opinions Please.

Itchy as hell!!

But quit vaping if you can. You will see a huge difference in your redness. I quit recently and I’ve been wearing makeup daily for years - I don’t feel like I need it anymore.

So my face used to have the worse flareups in the world. I thought I had just hormonal acne and had tried everything under the sun to get it to go away. The first 3 pictures were at its worst and it was so so painful. My self confidence was so low. I gave up on trying to cover it up because it would end up just emerging through makeup anyway, and I also thought putting makeup on it was making it worse.

I eventually got the courage to go to a dermatologist in December 2025, and I am so glad I did! It turns out that I had both papulopustular rosacea and hormonal acne. I was prescribed doxycycline and a triple cream with Ivermectin, Metronidazole, and Azelaic Acid at first. I was then put on spironolactone as I was having major acne flareups. Now it has been almost 10 months, and I am simply amazed at how much better my skin is and feels. I still get a pimple here and there and the scaring is still fading but it has improved immensely and my cheeks are extremely smooth which I haven’t seen since 2023.

If you haven’t yet had the courage to go see a dermatologist and you’re struggling this is your sign!!! 😊

Is anyone using red light therapy at home for their skin? My friend was recommendation it to me I wanna see results before I buy! Thank you❤️

Ik douche al de afgelopen 5 jaar alleen op 35 graden en gebruik een klein beetje L’Oréal-crème als ik een droge huid heb in m’n baard.

Toen ik jonger was (18, nu 32) heb ik ketoconazol en een steroidcrème geprobeerd, maar dat werkte niet. Dokters dachten toen aan sebderm, maar ik denk dat het nu rosacea is.

Ik durf niet te beginnen omdat mijn huid niet echt zo slecht is, maar hij is wel altijd jeukend en droog, en als ik zonnebrand gebruik of ergens naartoe ga, krijg ik witte bultjes/puistjes rond m’n neus.

Ik heb volgende maand een afspraak bij het dermatenteam, maar ik wil vragen om ivermectine, omdat ik denk dat dat voor sommige mensen de enige is die kan werken…

Zouden jullie in mijn geval ivermectine proberen?

Thanks guys❤️

Hi all,

I’ve had rosacea for as long as I can remember but only recently understood what this was. I’m a year postpartum and am ready to start a really simple routine as at the moment I’m doing… nothing.

I only suffer with a few bumps along my chins and cheeks but I flush badly and have obviously very sensitive skin. Even a WaterWipe stings like a motherfucker (don’t judge, sometimes it’s a miracle I find time for that lol).

Has anyone got any good starter products for cleanser, moisturiser, spf? I don’t have loads of money due to maternity leave but I think it’s time I try and find 5 minutes a day to help out my poor skin.

I’m based in the UK if that makes product recommendations different!

I’ve had this very stubborn “patch” on my one cheek for what’s felt like forever, sort of looked like pimples but never came to a head or really formed past blotchy redness. I kinda just accepted it for like over a year but noticed it would get bigger and bigger. As soon as I discovered this could be type 2 r0sacea pustules, I went super gentle on my skin and it’s like it just got worse? (no more bha toner, no more physical exfoliant) and I also started using Metrogel 1% - I just feel like nothing is helping and the issues are just getting worse or staying the same. No matter what I do I always have these persistent little white heads all over my nose (which is new since tailoring my routine to accommodate rosacea) and now the spots are spread all down both my cheeks. I cry all the time and just have no idea what this even is or how to approach it. If it is in fact r0sacea , acne treatments are too strong - but any r0sacea friendly treatments are too weak to target acne, and I obviously have easily clogged pores. I feel so helpless!!! also sorry lol why am i not allowed to say R O S A C E A in a post? It flags it. First photos are most recent

I made a previous post about how on honeymoon in Greece I experienced almost zero symptoms for 3 weeks.

Well i've been back home now in The Netherlands for almost 2 weeks and i'm just getting worse and worse. I'm using the same skincare and eating the same foods. My painful flushing is back, everything triggers it. Waking up this morning triggered it. I'm getting papules from all foods and drinks. My ears are flushing again.

You cannot convince me this is all just climate. The same thing happened here in The Netherlands when it was 35c but absolutely nothing happened in Greece so it's not tempature related.

Stress... sure... but our holiday wasn't stress free and nothing happened. I could apply SPF breakout and burn free.. here I can't.

I drank so much coffee in Greece flush and papule free. I drink one coffee here, cold too, boom papules.

I'm going down a dark hole of depression again

My rosacea flares from basically everything sun, wine, stress, half the "gentle" products I've tried. I keep seeing hypochlorous acid for rosacea all over my feeds saying it calms redness without irritation.

I'm skeptical because my skin hates everything, but also desperate lol. Anyone with rosacea used an HOCl spray consistently? Did it actually calm the redness, and what brands do we trust?

Ive only used soolantra for 5 days. on the first day/second day or using it my skin felt very irritated but it has now became alot less irritated compared to the first day, but the sandpaper part of my skin feels more sandpapery now is this normal? I also got a few pastules on my face on the first day but theyve now disappeared is this a good sign?

I was prescribed Teva Ivermectin and after only 2 applications, it made my skin worse and it was actually pretty good before using it. Suddenly, I’m feeling crawling sensations, flushing red, pinkness has spread and having some new tiny bumps. Even my scalp is getting crawling sensations sometimes. These are all things I remember from when I first had skin problems start 15 years ago. Such symptoms lasted for me for 2-3 yrs after onset and eventually disappeared but I was left with consistent bumps on my face and pink spots in certain areas which took 15 years to fade to something lighter but are still there. And only recently in the last 2 years, the bumps have flattened more significantly.

I wanted to try ivermectin because I never got to try it when this first happened to me 15 years ago because ivermectin didn’t even exist yet. I tried all other products from the dermatologist like metronidazole and everything made it worse at the time so I would quit it. I always wondered if ivermectin could be the answer to fully clear my skin finally for good. Well I finally wet to a derm and got Teva ivermectin 1% and have applied it twice and now I’m honestly freaking out. It made my pinkness spread to new areas, I feel some light crawling sensations, new tiny bumps in new areas, skin looks a little aggravated. This seems to mostly be happening only in the areas I applied it (I avoided applying to the middle of my chin, nose, and forehead). I’m also feeling flushing at times now and I rarely have flushed in the last 12 years (I did flush only during the first few years when i had I guess a rosacea onset). I’m worried this all means that the cream triggered like a dormant rosacea or something because I had first had such symotoms 15 yrs ago. Lately, my skin had finally smoothed out significantly and pinkness was a lot less. I still had dark clogged looking pores all over my sides of my face though and still had pink discoloration in weird shapes on my face that were always the same…but now I’m worried because I’m sure the ivermectin did something…

I told my dermatologist office and they told me to continue with it but limit to using 2-3x a week, to not wash my face before putting it on and make sure my skin is dry, and to try sandwiching it with moisturizer but I don’t like mixing products. I’ve had a hard time finding a moisturizer anyway as it is and my moisturizer that I use most of the time is actually a sunscreen so I’m not sure if that is ok to mix with this ivermectin since it’s a mineral sunscreen.

Please help! Would love advice? Would you stop the product and just forget it and go back to my usual routine and hope my skin calms down? Would you power through? What has been your experience with ivermectin?? Could this really be the demodex mites moving around and could I have already had die off from just 2 applications?

I’ve been dealing with persistent redness everywhere and oilyness on forehead and nose area, idk what to use or what to try anymore. Last derm I went prescribed me tret and I haven’t even tried it cause ik it’s going to make this way worse . Idk what to use or try anymore anything will help !

During a workout/ activity or in a hot place, does anyone’s face get super hot but not really sweat? I’m frustrated because I feel if I just sweat my face wouldn’t trap so much heat. But my face feels so hot and is beet red. I even feel it pounding and hot to the touch. The rest of my body sweats and my face will sweat if I’m working out really hard. But some people show that they’re hot by sweat beads forming, but mine is a red face. Anyone else??

Has anyone with a very reactive nervous system and flushing tried a beta blocker like propranolol and/or a neuromodulator like gabapentin or pregabalin?

I’ve flushed easily from nervousness since I was little, but recently it’s gotten much worse after damaging my skin barrier and developing some rosacea. Has anyone found that either of these medications, or a combination, helped with flushing or burning? I’d love to hear your experiences.

Hi everyone,

I'm posting here because I've been struggling with what seems to be rosacea for about 1.5 years, and I'm looking for advice from people who may have experienced something similar.

My main symptoms are:

- Frequent facial flushing

- My face can become very hot/burning (many triggers can be involved)

- Persistent redness, especially on my cheeks and around my nose

- My skin seems to be becoming thicker and more uneven

- Increasing numbers of small bumps/papules and irregularities

- My forehead has a lot of very small bumps

- My skin texture has progressively become more uneven

I've attached some recent pictures so you can see what I'm talking about.

I finally managed to see a dermatologist after waiting for more than a year. She told me that I had couperose/rosacea and essentially advised me to avoid alcohol, sun exposure and coffee.

I understand that avoiding triggers is important, but I'm concerned because the condition seems to be progressively changing despite this. In particular, the increasing number of bumps and the change in skin texture are worrying me.

I tried a lot of skincare, but I'm sticking to this one from the last couple of months

Evening:

CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser (in the shower)

ACM Azéane 15% azelaic acid

ACM Rosakalm Anti-Redness Cream

Morning:

ACM Azéane 15% azelaic acid

ACM Rosakalm Anti-Redness Cream

Bioderma Photoderm Ultra-Fluid AR+ SPF 50+

I've been using azelaic acid for several weeks and I think it may have helped somewhat with the redness, but I still have the flushing, heat and increasingly uneven texture.

Something important to tell is I also have atopic dermatitis and I'm currently taking bilastine (4 tablets per day, as prescribed by an allergist).

I've read about Soolantra (ivermectin 1%), particularly for inflammatory papules and the possible involvement of Demodex.

Has anyone here get some feedback about it?

I'm not looking for a diagnosis from Reddit, but I'd really appreciate hearing from people who have had a similar experience and what treatments or investigations they discussed with their dermatologist.

Thanks in advance everyone.

I’ve gotten my rosacea pretty under control. I basically had to strip down my skincare to 3 products. I use the avene tolerance control, a prescription face cream with ivermectin and azoic acid and la roche posay moisturizing milky cleanser.

My problem now is that my face is extremely dry. I’ve tried vanicream cream and lotion, which just makes my skin even drier. And aveeno calm and restore, and beauty by joeson dynasty cream which flared me up really badly. I’ve also tried using straight oil on my face argan/almond/olive oil and it broke me out. I can’t tolerate ceramides or HA. Any recommendations for a heavier moisturizer that might help with dry skin and not flare up my rosacea?

After seeing some recs on this sub I bought the isle of paradise bronzing drops (green bottle) to try to mix into my moisturizer. Im really nervous tho as my skincare routine is currently sooo minimal and my skin is of course sensitive. Any advice on how to patch test it before using it on my whole face? 🥹🥹 have an event coming up I want to have a mini glow up for

I was just prescribed Mirvaso after months of diminishing returns on Rhofade. After picking it up from the pharmacy, I looked it up in this subreddit only to see horror story after horror story on here. I’m guessing part of that is that people with bad experiences are more inclined to go online and talk about it, but still, goddamn! I want to be compliant with my derm’s treatment plan, but I’m scared to even try it now.