Thursday, November 15, 2012

Finding A Treatment For Rosacea



Living with a skin condition changes you and your approach to people. You withdraw in order not to be noticed because you are embarrassed about the appearance of your skin. You gradually drift away from contact with people just to avoid questions and stares. People you meet may view you as shy or withdrawn or you may even give the impression that you are too important to lower yourself to acknowledge them. The truth is you are just embarrassed about what you see as an alarming imperfection. It was like that for me, I thought everyone was always staring and would avoid eye contact with anyone just to avoid the inevitable questions.

Every once in a while a product comes along that doesn’t fit our preconceived notion of what a treatment should be. It looks different, works different, doesn’t make absurd claims and yet there is that intriguing moment when you can’t help but wonder if this could be the one that really delivers on what  it promises and  could you have finally found a real cure. Anyone who has ever tried to treat or manage a skin condition has known these moments of hope and apprehension. I’m a skeptic, I’ve learned to be. People aren’t always what they seem; treatments aren’t always what they seem. After a while you get tired of feeling you’ve been taken in or scammed. 

With great reservations, I read everything I could find about Rosacea-Ltd – treats redness, treats pimples, treats papules – how many times have we heard all that? So the analytical portion of my brain tells me to ignore 90% of what I read, and focus on one point, examine it, study it and think it through. The website –www.rosacea-ltd.com – seems obsessed with water. Therefore water seemed to be a good place to start. I read their article on hydration  and its effect on stress, providing adequate moisture for the skin. A lot of it made sense; I’ve heard a lot of similar stuff from other medical professionals concerning various medical conditions. So this seemed a good place to start. Prove or disprove what appears to be a major component of this website and I could prove or disprove the effectiveness and truthfulness of their claims. 

What I did was critically look at my skin and record everything I saw. I doubled the amount of water I was drinking and after one week, I did another critical review and recorded was I saw and perceived my current skin condition to be. I continued drinking the increased amount of water and re-examined my skin at the end of week two. Then I went back and reviewed what I had written each week and I was surprised to note that I had seen and recorded a weekly visual improvement in my skin! You know the thrill of actually looking better and seeing for yourself an improvement is such a confidence and self-esteem builder. You feel such a sense of power and control over your skin’s appearance. This is the stuff of effective treatment and rosacea control! I thought if something so simple and basic as drinking water could affect so much improvement, the Rosacea-Ltd disks might do more. 

Times are tough and money is tight these days and you hesitate to spend on yourself, I know I do. But there comes a moment when you feel so bad that you have to do something for you. You just want to feel better and when you do, it changes everything. The disks advertise a 120 day money back guarantee, so I ordered and decided I would do as I had with the water drinking experiment, I recorded what I perceived to be the condition of my skin and after a week of use, did the same critical assessment and again did another analysis of my skin as I saw it after two weeks. Hey, I could see the difference, it wasn’t somebody telling me I look good to make me feel better, this was me being honest with myself. The disks work, they deliver on what they promise to do. And I feel good about my skin’s appearance, I even eye contact when I talk to people now, I feel that confident. Do something foryourself today, give the rosacea disks a try.