Complications of Rosacea - Rosacea in eyes

Okay I want to talk about something that happened to me last year and at the time was not aware was a complication of rosacea!

 

Last year my right eye just went blurry, the only way to describe this blurriness is when you get that weird film over your eye and normally you rub it and it goes.  The only problem is when I rubbed my eye it didn't go!  Obviously this was felt very strange at first, so I though okay maybe it's just my glasses which has got dirt on the lenses.  So I repeatedly cleaned my glasses but to no avail....this scared me to death!

 So off I went to St Paul's eye hospital, but there was no doctor's in due to it being 10pm at night.  However, there was a nurse who looked at my eyes and advised me "come in tomorrow as I think you will just need some cream"

 

So the next day I waited for around 3 hours to be seen by a doctor, to only be told;

"I think you have Thygeson's Superficial Punctate Keratitis"

At that very moment I felt like my world fell apart as he told me; "You wont be able to drive anymore and there is not really any cures, but would look at possibly trying steroids.....which can sometimes make you worse" 

He then referred me to a cornea specialist.......

 

Over the next few days I experienced headaches and severely painful dry eyes, so was prescribed Hylo-Forte.....which is by far the most amazing invention ever if you suffer with dry eyes!

 

 

 

APPOINTMENT

Within 1-2 months my appointment came through for my cornea specialist who examined my eyes and straight away said;

"I can see you have rosacea, which has caused blepharitis" 

The Battle of Getting my Rosacea Diagnosed....

Three years ago after being seriously ill and in hospital with pneumonia I noticed round my chin and nose area it was a fierce red colour and was getting ALOT of painful spots (papules and pustules) and the rest of my skin was painfully dry....so much so that you could actually see the flakes of dry skin! 

Initially I visited my Doctor, who told me he was unsure as to what was wrong with my skin and advised that he will prescribe me with a steroid cream.  This for me is a DEFINITE NO as it thins your skin!  Like why would i agree to that!?  I guess if i needed steroid cream anywhere else I would agree, but on my face....definitely no!

Within 8 months of still not knowing I had rosacea, I most probably spent £200+ on products.  To name just a few I tried; E45 for Dry skin all the way through to Nivea, Sudacrem, Boots No7, YSL and Dior.....just nothing seemed to work for me!

That was until i spent hours searching on the internet and finally discovered Dermalogica Ultracalming range.

So i went to Selfridges in Manchester and spoke to a skin consultant and as soon as she seen my skin, she questioned as to whether i had rosacea....prior to this I had never even heard of rosacea.  The consultant done a skin mapping session on me and gave me a two week supply of what she believed would help my skin.  I must say i was extremely reluctant at first to try anything new on my skin after my previous bad experiences with products, but my opinion soon changed pretty fast with the help of Dermalogica!

I will go through which products I find useful in my next post. 

Love Kay

xo



Introducing myself.....

 

Hi my name is Kayleigh!
 
I'm new to this world of blogging but I spend ALOT of my time reading and trying new hair and beauty products. 

As some of you may know living with rosacea makes you really self-conscious and gets you down sometimes (with me it was nearly all the time). 

I have lived with rosacea for three years, which diagnosed two years ago and I want to share my experiences of the products I have used.  Some products have been an absolute disaster and a complete waste of money (for me) and some have been amazing and are slowly bringing back my confidence!

In my future posts I will be discussing in depth the products and makeup I use to hide my red mask and spots (papules and pustules) and hopefully we can all share tips!?  Also all the other things I love; bleaching my ginger hair blonde and all the pastel colours I use and of course gaming  (◡‿◡✿)

Love

Kay

xo