Hi I'm new looking for some advice :)

[Kiki_g]

Hello,

I have been troubled with my skin for the last 4 years, it all started when I began using the Clinique 3 step system, after about 1 week my cheeks were red raw and itchy so I stopped using but my face has never been the same since. Basically i've got little pimples around my temples/ eyebrows and my cheeks which are red and ittirated and sometimes slightly stingy/itchy, they can get better and calm down but they always come back in the same location and never totally go away. In the past 4 years I have tried a few antibiotics which havent completely taken it away, doctor's have told me it's acne but i have never been so sure as you cant 'pop' them and they dont look like they are filled with anything. After a particularly bad outbreak 2 weeks ago I started looking online again as I really want to get to the bottom of it and I came across acne rosacea and it seems the only thing that sounds like what I have (although more of a mild case) and I just wondered if anyone else thinks this might be the case? I don't really get bad flushing though, probably very slightly although my face does feel hot sometimes and my nose gets red alot which is annoying! I am at the end of my tether with this so if anyone could be of any help it would be much appreciated. I am back at the doctors this week to hopefully get referred to a dermatologist.

Thanks!

[Kiki_g]

Thought it might be easier to add a picture.

[flying_er]

Thought it might be easier to add a picture.

Hi Kiki,

It's always hard to tell what's going on just from a picture but I do get similar type bumps on my forehead and my doctor calls it rosacea. Have you tried any of the typical rosacea products such as Metrogel, Finacea, sodium sulfacetamide/sulfur?

-Dave-

[Ghost]

Can't say. But it does sound like garden variety rosacea.

Your angry red nose is a blush/flush.

[Kiki_g]

Thanks very much for your help, prob best to see what the doctor has to say, like you say hard to tell by one picture.

Kelly

[Tmon912]

Looks like something that azelaic acid would help. Unfortunately they always give the strong dose which causes dry skin. See if they'll give you a sample of whatever they prescribe first so you don't waste 100+ dollars on something that doesn't help you.

[drummond]

Thought it might be easier to add a picture.

In my opinion you are not sweating properly therefore the preformed sweat material is arriving in the right place but it is just stopping in situ. If this seems to have in a "sense" just started happening I think that would be a "misnomer"
Something MUST HAVE CHANGED in your life.

I replied to "gon" about a similar situation.

[arb161]

Hi
My Rosacea started exactly like that and was misdiagnosed until it progressed to severe flushing. The pimples were easy for me to get rid of with antibiotics. The flushing has been much more difficult. My advise is to get yourself to a better dermatologist, bet antiobiotics and a topical.
Good luck
Arlene