/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10084462
If you're diagnosed already, why didn't your doctor prescribe you any steroid or immunosuppressive creams?

I'm eye-wrinkle anon up-thread, and my atopic dermatitis (doctor name for my particular eczema) had me living like you do for most of my teen years. I woke up with a face cracked to shreds, and when I touched it dead flakes fell off like snow. Always dry, always ugly, I basically had scales like a dragon. Then there was the rest of my body, but for your sake I'm keeping to the face. It got under control when I got prescribed heavy drugs to suppress it. They actually hurt less to use than the other creams and lotions I had tried beforehand. Protopic is my facial saviour, and that's mostly immunosuppressive. Right now I'm free from virtually all my dry skin thanks to the next step, light chemotherapy by eating some Methotrexate pills once a week. They impair my production of a certain protein, so that my skin stops overproducing dead, dry and flaky skin. Now I'm smooth enough to pass for a functioning normal human, instead of a reptilian overlord.

Forgive my blog post, but what I'm trying to say is that there's hope. All of the hope lies in prescription drugs and steroids. If your doctor doesn't think you need it, get a new doctor. Eczema is the absolute worst.

>Pic related to how I used to feel way back when