TSW & Eczema
1st post.
Welcome my warriors. I am currently in my 9th month of my topical steroid withdrawal journey and for those of you who are going through this you know how hard & emotional this can be. esp. when you're flaming red in the face and in various other areas of your body and you just want to hide in a whole for a year or until you look like a normal human being again instead of a red disfigured monster. Well whatever stage/ month you're in I applaud you for choosing the steroid free route, although it's very rough and horrid in the beginning I swear it gets easier as time goes by. I no longer have a beat red/oozing face and look like a normal being. I still have patches on my elbows, knees, and in the bend of both my elbows/knees. my face is only flakey above my lip occasionally & on my eye lids. my hands are also flakey and pink but no longer appear swollen/like someone put it in a blender. I am not on any type of diet but I naturally don't drink anything but juice and water, lots of water. I also don't go out to eat very often because I don't have the financial ability to do so. I spent the first few months in hiding as they were the worst. my skin was very flakey and oozing/weeping underneath. It eventually ceased over a few weeks and with the use of CLn body washhttp://www.clnwash.com/cln-body-wash.html it helped dry up the weeping and kill the infection/staph that you have on your skin. It did sting while I used it so I don't recommend it for babies or small children. I dreaded using it but it was the only way I could make my skin stop being all weepy and so I could sleep without laying a towel on my pillow. I also stopped using cerave, eucerine, dove, aquaphor, aveeno, or any creams or soaps on my skin because they would dry it out so much and I didn't want to use any harmful ingredients on my skin. I now use all natural soaps fromhttp://www.chagrinvalleysoapandsalve.com/products/for-the-body/ I usually get the one with oatmeal and honey or goats milk. I also just use vaseline to moisturize because I don't trust anything else. If anyone has any ideas/methods/secrets I'm willing to try them. If anyone has any questions or comments please feel free to ask away. (: peace out - tswwarriorgirl
