I’ve been experimenting with all sorts of over the counter rosacea treatments lately. The market is huge, as the motivation to buy is off the charts and companies know this about their red faced, mostly female, mostly young customers. Because of that, I’m actually fairly suspect about much of the products out there that are sold and cross marketed to both acne teenagers and young fair skinned white women (such as yours truly) in their 30′s, dealing with a skin problem that makes me feel like a teenage girl all over again.

The good news is that there are some really effective over the counter meds out there for reducing my rosacea symptoms. One of the most useful ones so far is called ZenMed, a weird name, but it works to reduce my facial redness and just overall makes my life easier, a heck of a trade off that I’m glad to cash in on for a few bucks a month to get their products.

At the same time, I’m increasingly interested in the so-called natural rosacea treatments out there, stuff like drinking green tea and using funny looking facial masks with cucumbers and actual green tea leaves, boiled and cooled and then left on my face like some weird aboriginal induction ceremony. I honestly am not so sure if these natural, herbal rosacea treatment ideas work.

What’s funny though is I enjoy doing them – it just makes me feel healthy. It also is empowering to experiment with such things instead of just feeling like I’m at the mercy of prescription medicines and whatever my doctors tell me to do.

On top of that, green tea is super healthy and I’ve got to think that even if placing a mask of leaves on my face and looking ridiculous for an hour has no literal benefit, there’s got to be some residual health benefits I’m picking up from this right?

It’s hard to say what effect each thing I’m doing has when I’m doing everything under the sun (actually, I’m doing everything HIDING from the sun! Since you know, the sun is a terrible rosacea trigger for most of us.) (Oh… I crack myself up!) to treat my rosacea and get this problem under control.

But, either way, out of all this massive action, my life is akin to a real life rosacea treatment guide, and I feel I’m bound to find success and emerge as the victor, so it doesn’t really matter if it’s the green tea, the ZenMed, or the acutane: I’m going to get my rosacea under control and keep it that way.

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