You can Call me Pink wrote:
>
> Hello! My name is Mitzi or you can call me Pink and I am 31 year old
> mom of 4 and happily married for 12 years. I have had rosacea since I
> was 21. I am going to my family doctor for treatment. Not sure if this
> is a good thing or not but its much closer to where I live and cheaper
> on us. I have the Rosacea with the bumps :(. It so depressing at times
> to look in the mirror and hate the person looking back at you. I was
> not always this way though. I once had beautiful skin and thought I
> was beautiful. I tend to keep away from cameras and video recorders
> more then I ever did. Right now I have a flare up of the bumps cause I
> drank some coffee and ate spicy foods :( I am looking for a group of
> support and to find some other people who are going through what I am
> going through. I use to go without makeup back before rosacea and
> would love to one day get to where I can do that again. I hope to find
> the support I am looking for here. While hubby is great about it all
> he also is not going through this either.
>
> Mitzi (aka: Pink)
>
Hi Pink (Mitzi)

I'm new too. Sorry for what you are going through, it's no fun! I too
remember the days of taking my nice skin for granted.

'You aren't your skin', a wise person wrote on one of these sites.
We'll all get this sorted out!

I really think the diet is great...I've gone way low carb... though I
must admit I'm not perfect, but, I'm still very proud of my progress
with it, over the last 5 weeks.

My DH is being very helpful ;) he points out my flushing for me. Now it
comes and goes instead of being constantly bright red. Progress... I
seem to be set off by things that have a little fermentation going on,
such as over-ripe bananas, kombucha, wine. I'm on the fence about
dairy, I think it is linked to my bumps, I think I may be ok in the
long run with dairy or maybe even fermenting stuff, once the irritation
is down to a dull roar from the diet. I hope!

Renee