Monday, November 27, 2006

Re: [rosacea] cold ponds cream.

tamara
i love warm epsome salts baths.....i didn't know they were so helpful.
....i do not put it on my face tho, do you?
i wonder if epsom salts in the sheets and towels wash would also help, or if that would bother the face skin eventually?
emily
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From: rose jill
To: rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: [rosacea] cold ponds cream.

Elena, I know what you mean about the eyes, believe me. I swear I thought at times i was going blind (literally). My eyes were always bothered, itchy, irritated, sometimes puffy, red, and gritty feeling! it was such a burden for me, I felt so helpless. I put the z cream in my ears and on my eyebrows. I swear the bas..... are the cause of my rosacea. Also, i put tea tree oil in my shampoo for my scalp (drain the suckers for good) and i bathe in Epsom Salts (mites hate it). I feel like ive lost so much of my life, because of these hellish devils, I will drown the rugrats to death if I have to set them on fire I would lol. Elena, I feel like I can see again, and another thing, if you look at the demodexmite forum...look at the pictures and look at HILDA is her name and i have been in touch with her alot...she after one year is rosacea free...and look at the difference in her skin (amazing). Elena, I wash my linens and add a drop of tea tree oil to them, I use a fresh towel
everyday, keep my cat away from my room now, bathe him good to (thank god he loves water). I have been in touch with many who are doing well with this z cream...some have sent me pictures with there success. Elena, if you ever do it, go slowly only need a little (buy the acarid soap and the z cream use nightly or day and evening if your skin can handle it. Pat your skin with water first and then put a thin layer (very thin) on your face, and see what happens. My eyes were greatly improved in no time! good luck tamara


Elena Mutter <emgm42000@yahoo.com> wrote:
Wow Tamara............100 percent improvement of eyes?!! Right now, I think that is my most troubling symptom. The last two years they are just "not my eyes".......it's hard to explain. So you didn't get the special eye treatment from the z cream people? Just using the regular z cream on your face and yet your eyes and ears are better even though you are not directly putting z cream on them? My ears are also a misery for me. Always itchy and sore along with my poor scalp. I have seb derm too so I don't know what's what half the time. Anyway, maybe I should give the z cream another try. My Rosacea did a slow crawl to where it is now too Tamara. I am going to be 47 on Dec. 18th and this all started for me at 21. It's really only been the last two years where I want to jump off a bridge from this (just kidding.......I think). That's great about your mom. You know, even way back when I was first struggling with this one doctor had the great humility t o admit that
they just did not know anything about this strange disease and he mentioned that sometimes it does indeed "just go away". He said it is typically a disease that comes on in the 40's and sometimes later in life in the 60's or so it just goes away. But, as we all know, there is NOTHING typical about this disease. I certainly did not fit ANY of the criteria for having it. I wasn't in my 40's. I wasn't of celtic decent. I did not blush easily. I feel very jipped LOL! Thanks for all this info Tamara. A year, huh? I hope it gets continually better and better for you. Your such a dear.

Take care,
Elena

rose jill wrote:
Elena, my mom said she used chrestor (for her high cholesterol). My mom uses cold ponds cream every night. My sister does not suffer from rosacea. I avoid alcohol at all costs, but what i said was when we were at my sisters, my mom can now drink alcohol, while i stay the heck away from it. Elena and 3rd, so far for the z cream I have seen 100% improvement for my eyes(no longer bother me) (no longer red) My ears (no longer bother me unless I have an allergic reaction to something (which is not as often as it was). The papules, i have less but since the z cream makes you break out here and there when killing the mites, sometimes i still break out and then i notice my skin being very clear afterwards. My cheeks and nose are pink in color not red now. I still react to certain foods, and heat etc... so this is not gone yet, also walter (from the z cream forum) indicates rosacea allergic responses take a year or more to stop reacting, it is a process that takes time.
Elena, I am
still dry skin, but do notice the old skin sloughs off, and i have better renewal skin in replace of it. I am pleases so far, and have yet to see my rosacea gone completely, but going back to the way it was, I am better now for sure. I am 33 years old now, I think i developed it when i was around 26 or so not exactly sure, but it started off slowly like creeping up and then procrascinated into papules along with the flushing. I am type 2 rosacea. I have it cheeks and nose. hope this helps you.
Elena Mutter wrote: Okay Tamara, these are interesting statements. First, what is the cholesterol med your mom is taking so we can look into it. And did you or your sister (sounds like your sister suffers from this too?) give it a try too and what happened? Second, it's so funny about the Ponds. If it is Ponds cold cream then that's what my mom uses too LOL...........it's been around forever and is the "old-fashioned" stuff I think many of our moms used/use. Can your skin tolerate it? And third, you have really stuck it out with the z-cream.......I am so impressed! When you say you are 50% better, is that in all aspects of the Rosacea? Like p&p's, redness, dryness, hot burny skin and flushes? Also, if you had any eye problems, do you find that that is better too? Some people have said that even their eye symptoms got better using z-cream (not even the one they put out specifically for the eyes). Okay, those are my questions. Sorry to overload you but
wouldn't it be marvelous if a
great many of us could just start using Ponds cold cream and convince our doctors to give us whatever cholesterol med your mom is on..........ah, a girl can dream can't she?

Take care,
Elena

tamara wrote:
Hey guys, anyone use this? it has mineral oil in it though, is that a
nono for rosaceans? Just wondered about it. My mom uses it every
night, she had rosacea many years, and gone now after taking
cholesterol medication. My mom to this day looks fab. I asked her also
what moisteriser she uses, and she said cold ponds and loves it, will
never change. My mom is lucky, I dont want to use the word cure, but
she has been in remission since the chol. pills...she is very lucky.
My mom use to have it bad, and she also mentioned to me that since her
cat passed away, her skin is even better. WHAT! I have a cat and he is
my baby lol, my dad use to break out in hives and itch and loved the
cat too much so he suffered alot, yaaa i know crazy, he hated going to
the doctors too, it always cracked me up alot, because as soon as we
said "doctors" he would tell us to bugger off.
Anyway, it just makes me think when I think about my mom and when I
visited my sisters...she can now drink wine without flushing, I stay
the heck away until the z cream eliminates this rosacea completely. I
just wanted to mention this, i did mention this before, this is why
every rosacean is so different and there are so many factors involved.
I no longer believe that because my mom has (had) it that because i
developed it, its the irish thing and thats it. For me since being on
the z cream, I am 50% better now and its been almost 3 months on it. I
want you all to know that there is hope, and when I see my mom, she
has never looked better, and her skin cleared by accident as she tells
me...she thinks it is the chol.meds that really made her feel better
inside out, and I am pleased to see my mom in remission, as she had
rosacea for many years. tamara

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