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Hi Everyone,
Thank you for for your answers.Here is more info. I received:
First, I will tell you what I've been doing for my rosacea since I asked this question on the list serv. I'm using metronidazole 0.75%. Works well to resolve acne but don’t like to use a rx long time (possible side effects). Keeping a Rosacea Diary Form (from Rosacea.org). helps identify foods, weather, stresses, hot, cold, skin products, etc. very helpful. Problems I'm finding: yogurt (?) sun, hot showers. Still working on this diary to determine others. I'm still having some flareups. Still too early to determine exactly all that is causing my breakouts. I want to try the clear caladryl (see below next). If this doesn’t work, I want to try Finecea (see below).
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My doc told me to stay away from very hot water on my face (including in the shower) even steam from hot liquids can exacerbate the acne. I have been using something called metro-gel (not sure if it is an antibiotic or not) but I used it for a time period and the rosacea pretty much disappeared. I get very short bouts now that might last only a couple of days (near my menstrual period). But it is nothing like what I used to get. So, you may want to try the metrogel and may only need it for a short time period. Then stay away from hot stuff to your face, also I use dove soap (doc said that was good, any mild soap would be best).
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Yes!   All of a sudden I got this about 5 years ago.  Before that, my face would get red, but then all of a sudden, I started getting blemishes. 
This is what does help me:
1. No gluten, soy, or dairy, or peanut products.  Any of these can cause the rosacea for me (including stuff cooked in peanut oil). If I eat any soy, I really look just like a 16 year old teen, with zits.  This includes in chocolate bars....it is really hard to find a chocolate bar without soy lecithin.   Avoiding these four takes care of it for me, but if something gets snuck in there, I can tell it; my face breaks out.  I can feel the burning in my face before.  I keep a small container of the remedy below to apply at just such times.
2. If I do have the bumps come up, or especially if I start to have them come up, here is my miracle remedy.   This really works for me, and is so much cheaper than meds they prescribed. I had an relative visit who has much my complexion, and she has rosacea all over her face, and had medicine for it. I had her try this, and the next day, the bumps were gone. The remedy is the clear Caladryl lotion, or the generic equivalent, sold in Walmart, other places for about $4.00 a bottle.  This will last a long time. I just a squirt of the clear lotion on an applicator, rinse this over the area on my face where the blemishes would come up, and it helps keep them at bay; in some cases if they are already there, they go away in a matter of an hour or two, or even less.  If they are already there full force, I keep applying it and most go away in a matter of hours.
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Stay out of the sun.
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Please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosacea  The antibiotic cream may be much less helpful than a course of Rifaximin.  I'd also like to suggest that you get your vitamin D level checked.       


      

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