My face looks unrecognizable sometimes. My nose and cheeks swell like a chipmunk. Anyone else?

Chris

Yes--when the flushing and burning starts up, the face swells up (edema).
I use "cool packs" - it doesn't seem to make the swelling go down much, but it seems to help my suffering with the terrible burning.
Darcy

Yes... unfortunately. My nose looks, as you put it, unrecognizable sometimes. It's frustrating, maddening, and just downright defeating when you don't look like you know you should ...and there doesn't seem to be anything you can do about it.

The rosacea has steadily increased the size of my nose and left its misshappen marks through pustules over the past few years. It's humiliating and incomprehensible at times. I had Laser in Oct., one of the best places in the US, and it helped for a month or two, but things are as bad or worse now than they were before.