jacob83
17th June 2005, 09:28 PM
Posted this on the yahoo group as well before I was recomended to this forum. Sorry to those who already checks the other board...
Hey everyone! I have been a reader of the board for several weeks but never gotten around to actually post. Here is my first post and I would like to share my situation with everyone. If anyone has any comments, help, suggestions or thoughts, then please write me. Two months ago I didn’t even know what rosacea was and now it’s the only thing on my mind….
My name is Jacob and I am a 22 year old guy from southern Sweden. I have always had easy to flush when I was younger but never thought more about that. The first time that now stands out as a possible beginning is when I was on a vacation on Gran Canaria a few years ago. Used normal tanning lotion and was out in the sun like I always used to, but my nose swelled up big time and became bright red. Since then (or at least I started noticing it then) the face and especially nose has swelled up and turned red when being out in the sun for extended times back here in Sweden, being out partying and for example eating spicy food.
Last February I decided to do a plastic surgery due to the dislike of the size and shape of the nose, which also was an attempt to break the negative mental trend I was in regards to it. It worked like a charm, the result was great and I have never felt better. But by late summer, swelling and redness started occur on it after being out in the sun for a few days and has continued since then. For the past half year, it has gotten worse and no signs of improvement. At first I thought it was the plastic surgery gone bad, but after having been to my doctor, my plastic surgeon and a second plastic surgeon, they all concluded that the nose was in great shape and absolute nothing had gone wrong with the actual operation.
After the operation, I was prescribed and used cortisone cream and a spray to reduce the swelling…
The second plastic surgeon I went to two months ago, mentioned rosacea for the swelling of the nose and that’s when I joined here. Started studying about the disease and everything seems to match up with my current situation. The swelling is the main concern, along with the redness which is not equally bad right now. It happens when I go to the gym to train, go out running, eating hot food, cooking food, drinking alcohol, switching temperature drastically (going from the house to out in the winter for example), windy conditions, getting hot and warm in general. Weird things such as washing my face with my facewash as well as shaving also seems to trigger the swelling. Another thing that makes it worse is sitting in front of my computer and the monitor. I have turned the brightness down to minimum and that made it better, but it’s still causing me problems…
He prescribed Financea 15% gel which I used for the time being. Two weeks later I met with a dermatologist who didn’t want to diagnose me with roseacea. Said that I might have a mild rosacea. My feeling was that she thought I was too young at 22, to have it. She recommended me to stop with the Financea gel and start using a Aberelea 0,05% Tretinoin gel. The gel however doesn’t seem to work too well for me.
My first doctor I went to said it could have something to do with the blood vessels in the nose that are changed after the operation, but I don’t personally believe that either and it doesn’t explain the flushing of the rest of the face that I am starting to see signs off…
Over the past two weeks, my face seems to have become more sensitive as well. When I go training, I turn red in my whole face. Barbequed and had a spicy sauce last week and my face as bright red for the rest of the evening. And yesterday I was in the sun for 10-15 minutes and I woke up today being completely red in my whole face.
I also read about tired eyes and that also seems to match with me. They look tired and my eyes look almost “saggy”. This could be me imagining and might as well have to do with poor self esteem and lack of charisma at this moment, but thought it was worth mentioning…
What do you guys think and what would you do if you were in my position? Do you believe it is rosacea despite my dermatalogists unwillingness to diagnose it? Rather tough knowing something is wrong, but not knowing for sure what and not being able to do anything about it…
I am trying to avoid hot food, train during the mornings, eat ice cubes, drink a lot of cold fluid and similar actions to avoid it and it seems to work to some extent. But with the weather getting warmer, summer vacation, and also working, it still affects me greatly. This worry is on my mind constantly and it’s really bringing me down…
Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated!!!
Sincerely,
Jacob
If there are any swedish readers here then it would be great to get in touch. Always nice to talk to someone in the same situation and possibly get a recomendation to a good rosacea derm here...
Hey everyone! I have been a reader of the board for several weeks but never gotten around to actually post. Here is my first post and I would like to share my situation with everyone. If anyone has any comments, help, suggestions or thoughts, then please write me. Two months ago I didn’t even know what rosacea was and now it’s the only thing on my mind….
My name is Jacob and I am a 22 year old guy from southern Sweden. I have always had easy to flush when I was younger but never thought more about that. The first time that now stands out as a possible beginning is when I was on a vacation on Gran Canaria a few years ago. Used normal tanning lotion and was out in the sun like I always used to, but my nose swelled up big time and became bright red. Since then (or at least I started noticing it then) the face and especially nose has swelled up and turned red when being out in the sun for extended times back here in Sweden, being out partying and for example eating spicy food.
Last February I decided to do a plastic surgery due to the dislike of the size and shape of the nose, which also was an attempt to break the negative mental trend I was in regards to it. It worked like a charm, the result was great and I have never felt better. But by late summer, swelling and redness started occur on it after being out in the sun for a few days and has continued since then. For the past half year, it has gotten worse and no signs of improvement. At first I thought it was the plastic surgery gone bad, but after having been to my doctor, my plastic surgeon and a second plastic surgeon, they all concluded that the nose was in great shape and absolute nothing had gone wrong with the actual operation.
After the operation, I was prescribed and used cortisone cream and a spray to reduce the swelling…
The second plastic surgeon I went to two months ago, mentioned rosacea for the swelling of the nose and that’s when I joined here. Started studying about the disease and everything seems to match up with my current situation. The swelling is the main concern, along with the redness which is not equally bad right now. It happens when I go to the gym to train, go out running, eating hot food, cooking food, drinking alcohol, switching temperature drastically (going from the house to out in the winter for example), windy conditions, getting hot and warm in general. Weird things such as washing my face with my facewash as well as shaving also seems to trigger the swelling. Another thing that makes it worse is sitting in front of my computer and the monitor. I have turned the brightness down to minimum and that made it better, but it’s still causing me problems…
He prescribed Financea 15% gel which I used for the time being. Two weeks later I met with a dermatologist who didn’t want to diagnose me with roseacea. Said that I might have a mild rosacea. My feeling was that she thought I was too young at 22, to have it. She recommended me to stop with the Financea gel and start using a Aberelea 0,05% Tretinoin gel. The gel however doesn’t seem to work too well for me.
My first doctor I went to said it could have something to do with the blood vessels in the nose that are changed after the operation, but I don’t personally believe that either and it doesn’t explain the flushing of the rest of the face that I am starting to see signs off…
Over the past two weeks, my face seems to have become more sensitive as well. When I go training, I turn red in my whole face. Barbequed and had a spicy sauce last week and my face as bright red for the rest of the evening. And yesterday I was in the sun for 10-15 minutes and I woke up today being completely red in my whole face.
I also read about tired eyes and that also seems to match with me. They look tired and my eyes look almost “saggy”. This could be me imagining and might as well have to do with poor self esteem and lack of charisma at this moment, but thought it was worth mentioning…
What do you guys think and what would you do if you were in my position? Do you believe it is rosacea despite my dermatalogists unwillingness to diagnose it? Rather tough knowing something is wrong, but not knowing for sure what and not being able to do anything about it…
I am trying to avoid hot food, train during the mornings, eat ice cubes, drink a lot of cold fluid and similar actions to avoid it and it seems to work to some extent. But with the weather getting warmer, summer vacation, and also working, it still affects me greatly. This worry is on my mind constantly and it’s really bringing me down…
Any help or comments would be greatly appreciated!!!
Sincerely,
Jacob
If there are any swedish readers here then it would be great to get in touch. Always nice to talk to someone in the same situation and possibly get a recomendation to a good rosacea derm here...