What a story!! God Bless you and your ability to hold onto any bit of sanity! And you are consistently better now? Whatever I have been experiencing for the last few years seems to be worse with each new major 'session' and altho it has been constantly active since the first outbreak that presented with 5 completely unique rashes (the itch and pain was not unique!) no one I sought help from named anything or provided any comfort. I take that back - the Prednisone did help dry up and partially clear up the oozing, blackened skin (not a lot of skin there, I guess) or rash on my shins and I was very grateful not to have to look at or touch that any more...
With my last 'flare-up' I decided I was not going to seek any more medical advice ( blood tests, biopsies, wasted time and money on useless creams and torturous experiments) and altho this time my entire body was involved with a rash, the pain, the itching, sunken, dark circled eyes, loss of energy AND as a bonus - loss of most of my hair!!! I have gone this round alone and do not feel that much worse for the wear. Last time the 'bad spell' with all the ridiculous help, lasted something over 18 months. This time, even with all of the unexpected new problems - I forgot to mention the edema and my lack of knowledge about what was happening with that - it has been 9 months and things are not too bad. The palms of my hands and soles of my feet have a thickening of skin (sound like psoriasis?) and the red, lumpy, skin shedding rash from ankles to mid-calves/shins is constant, but not intolerable...
Enough about me! I am very happy with your end result. Congratulations! Your last picture is a great change from your first picture!
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What a story!! God Bless you and your ability to hold onto any bit of sanity! And you are consistently better now? Whatever I have been experiencing for the last few years seems to be worse with each new major 'session' and altho it has been constantly active since the first outbreak that presented with 5 completely unique rashes (the itch and pain was not unique!) no one I sought help from named anything or provided any comfort. I take that back - the Prednisone did help dry up and partially clear up the oozing, blackened skin (not a lot of skin there, I guess) or rash on my shins and I was very grateful not to have to look at or touch that any more...
With my last 'flare-up' I decided I was not going to seek any more medical advice ( blood tests, biopsies, wasted time and money on useless creams and torturous experiments) and altho this time my entire body was involved with a rash, the pain, the itching, sunken, dark circled eyes, loss of energy AND as a bonus - loss of most of my hair!!! I have gone this round alone and do not feel that much worse for the wear. Last time the 'bad spell' with all the ridiculous help, lasted something over 18 months. This time, even with all of the unexpected new problems - I forgot to mention the edema and my lack of knowledge about what was happening with that - it has been 9 months and things are not too bad. The palms of my hands and soles of my feet have a thickening of skin (sound like psoriasis?) and the red, lumpy, skin shedding rash from ankles to mid-calves/shins is constant, but not intolerable...
Enough about me! I am very happy with your end result. Congratulations! Your last picture is a great change from your first picture!
BelindaV
June 5, 2016 - 9:51amThis Comment
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