Benedict Harrison Mount's Eczema story
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Firstly before I start let me put forward my compassion for people with much worse skin than my own for them the struggle must seem so much harder.
Hello my name is Benedict I am a musician and Dj I am 21 and I have eczema, My battle with eczema started when I was 1 year old and continues to this day as although my skin didn’t choose to actively rebel until I turned 13. My skin from that point on seems to have lost nearly all ability to keep up a natural level of moisture especially on a patch of newly healed skin, accompanied by a seemingly never ending itch which moves around the body and the fact that scar tissue is more prone to breaking if messed with can easily become a bit of a problem given the nature of eczema, although it has seemingly calmed down slightly in the last year but is still a subject that I must manage every day to be able to function normally.
I have tried honestly every single treatment medical science can conjure up and found none to work and refused possibly cancer causing steroid treatments, I’ve also tried homeopathy and Chinese medicine with no avail, everybody is different so therefore all eczema’s are different being the body own defences affecting the individual.
I have found through trial and error that to manage myself the key has been to keep the skin clean and well moisturized, but with baths and showers which in turn dry up my skin further making it more likely to break, intensive moisturizing for me is a normal routine like shaving or brushing your teeth, I personally find that Vaseline petroleum jelly has the longish lasting effect to keep really stubborn areas soft enough for them to repair themselves.
Now it may seem as if its been all bad till now, and yeah high school was a REALLY bad time in my life as eczema is simply not understood by people that age and is more a topic to leer at and make fun of and at a point suicide did cross my mind. On the second hand it can be a great way to filter out getting to know the wrong people, and I firmly believe eczema has made me a better person more open minded and caring about the problems of others and that is one thing I guess I can thank it for!.I hope to grow out of it one day but at the same time I am so used to having the condition that if it doesn’t go away then I can just keep dealing with it.
Let me just take one more chance to give my support to all fellow sufferers of this condition and Martin Heather for giving me the chance to voice my story.
