Acne Rosacea: [rosacea] Re: birth control

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

[rosacea] Re: birth control

I wanted to share my recent experience with BC. I'm 30 and have
never been on them before. Becasue I followed the rosacea diet for
a month (oct-nov), i lost a lot of weight (boobs and bootie
gone!)...so my sister told me to go on the pill as it would help me
gain some of my weight back. I took her advice and went on
orthotrycyclen lo 3 weeks ago. My skin started clearing up last
week on a ski trip to vail. I was confused. I didnt know if it was
because of the diet, the BC or the climate change (I'm from SF).
whatever the case, i ate nothing but sweets and carbs the entire
trip...and my skin was fine. no itchy tingly feelings and no
pimples and bumps! looking back, i think it has to be the BC.
maybe the diet helped too...but it doesnt explain why i didnt break
out when i ate all the stuff i stayed away from all month...

does this make sense to anyone?

--- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, "sskplch" <sskplch@...>
wrote:
>
> I have the same experience.
> My skin is always better when I am taking BCPs. When I stop the
> pills my skin becomes a mess (red/P&P/oily/dry patches).
> So I think naturally my hormone level is not right.
>
> I whish that there was more research on this toppic, because that
> would help us ladies a lot.
>
> Saskia
>
>
>
> --- In rosacea-support@yahoogroups.com, <johnnycake@> wrote:
> >
> > just wanted to fill everyone in on a little birth control study
> i've been conducting on myself. if anyone from the group remembers
> me i'm one of the people who got pregnant & had great skin & my
> rosacea went away. well my baby is now 8 mos old & it had slowly
> crept back. i never had pimples b4 just redness. now my face is
> pretty broke out, so about 5 mos ago i started taking ortho tri
> cyclen. my face cleared up, but ladies you may know one of the
side
> effects of BC that it can make you a bit crazy at times ha! so i
> stopped taking it. the redness & pimples came back. i couldn't
stand
> it so the next mo. i started taking it again. skin cleared, but i
> was worried about being on BC for an extended period of time so i
> stopped again. redness & bumps back again! so personally i do
relate
> my rosacea to hormones. i think the estrogen boost from the BC
> clears me up.
> >
> > just wanted to share :)
> >
> >
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> >
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