Location: St. Augustine, FL
About Me: A high school Biology teacher's coping with rosacea while living in the interesting and sometimes insane world of public education.
December 04, 2005
Gaining strength
The antiinflammatory medication seems to be helping and the colon is gradually getting back to its old normal self. My wife and I helped out again at the cat adoption center at Petco Saturday for Goliath and Bebe's World and I managed to stay 5 hours. Last week it was all I could do to stay an hour and a half. Tomorrow I go back to the gastroenterologist for the biopsy results and to make further plans on treatment. I'll keep you all posted on what happens.
The rosacea has been at bay now for 2 weeks. I still have to use cream for dry skin but the flushing and redness have not reared their ugly heads. Possibly the medication I'm taking for the colon is helping the rosacea but my guess is that it's helping indirectly. I believe that the colon problems may have triggered flushing and now that the colon is healing the flushing is not manifesting itself. I've read about a possible connection between digestive problems and rosacea in some people but the research evidence seems inconclusive. I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, whatever the reason for the lack of symptoms.
Posted by Ken Albin on December 4, 2005 09:45 PM