Thanks Sparky. I think I bought the right soap but I got the kera moisturizer, not the aloe. Will try that next time. I hear you on the coffee and the red wine. And spicy foods.

Metrogel does zip, diddley, and squat for me. I am now using Azelex cream as that makes the redness go away for a good few hours, but only the steroid creams work on the eczema for me. Still the difference between yesterday and today is ginormous, so I'm going with it.

Not for rosacea, just for general finally-can-I-not-haz-acne? I use Mario Badescu. Last time I was unemployed I downgraded back to Neutrogena and the acne came back, so I'm now a slave to their prices. Fuckers. I use the seaweed cleansing soap every day, and either the herbal hydrating serum (costly!) or the buttermilk moisturiser every day too to moisturise. If I want middle of the day cleaning, or if I felt horribly dirty before using the soap, I also use the seaweed cleansing lotion as a refresher/extra clean, and I barely get any acne anymore--maybe once every 2 or 3 months I get a pimple. It's too much like a miracle for me to fuss with.

They have live chat on their site, so you could ask them about rosacea or eczema-specific products too. Oh, and you get three samples with each order, although little has convinced me to start buying it.

Considering price, I signed up for their discount newsletter. I hate when those have a point. I feel played.

Totally unrelatedly, some random email I got recently had this description which I think is adorable:

John Cleese, a long-time friend and facial expression aficionado

Fine, fine, boast about friendship, but the latter part of the description is very apt.

I'm trying to convince my sister to come to LA so she can ask Colin her own questions about the people she's fans of that he knows. I'm trying to act like a normal, fanart-drawing, SPN cushion-having, person, not a fan (he sent pics of the Castiel pictures to Misha, as well as at least one of my pictures, so my ship might have sailed...), so she needs to go nuts asking real life questions about Norman Reedus, not me.

Maybe they meant he was a friend aficionado. It's really not clear.

I was just gifted an hour until my next obligation. I should use it to write.

I just started treating my rosacea with Metrocreme and I think it's making my eczema worse. I am one of these people who can't just avoid things that make me blush/flush, everything does!

It probably is Sue, the treatments are known to make the other condition worse.

That seems unfair. Who should I address the sternly-worded letter to? (Okay, to whom?)

Huh, I looked up Rosacea and found out that the Rosacea Society's telephone number is 1-800-NO-BLUSH, which certainly adds a touch of humor to an unfunny situation.

ION, the phone screen turned out to be for a much different background than the recruiter thought it was, but at least the interviewer was not the kind of guy who is ungracious about it, and even answered my questions about what it was he was looking for (work with homegrown JS libraries, frameworks like Spring or Zend, lots of Async processing.)

If the above sounds complicated -- it is to me, too. I know just enough to be useless, I guess.

It probably is Sue, the treatments are known to make the other condition worse.

Bah!

Both are usually mild enough that I don't have to use medical remedies, but the rosacea has definitely become more severe over this winter.

I have neither rosacea nor eczema. But I do have an extreme pain my right forearm any time I clench something. It's not wrist pain nor is it elbow pain. WTF is it?