Our Eczema

Read these fellow eczema sufferers stories

Martin Heather

Then.....In November 2002 at the age of 25 I started to get what I thought was a rash when i got out of the bath, I asked my flat mate Dan if he had changed his shower gel etc and he said no, so I went to the doctors and was treated by a junior doctor for scabies. This had no effect and went back to see Doctor Stanger who has been my doctor since a child who explained it couldn't be scabies for a number of reasons and that it was eczema.

Steve Oswick

I ended up using Immuno suppressants. Not really the way I wanted to go, as they are potentially bad for you if handled incorrectly, and also had some very strong anti hystemines, and was given a cream that I had not used before called Locoid.

Lun Lok

My face was so bad, I looked permanently sunburnt. the redness was and still is always visible. Consistently peeling all the time, especially on the eye lids, chin and neck, groin and armpits as well. I would have to peel bits off my eyelids, measurable slithers, and I couldn't help it, my wife would tell me stop it, but I would say its all coming away anyway.....

Brooke Ballbach

I am trying to concentrate more on what I can to do to stay in control in dealing with eczema instead of worrying about it and let it control me. I know that is a tough assignment but as they say “things could be worst”

Louise

I just wish that someone would find a cure because I find it really hard to cope with and get really annoyed when my friends moan about a bludy spot on there face!

Sue Morrison

I seem to recall being free from this skin disease from about 14 till my twenties and then it came back – not so much on my legs and arms but my hands.

Jade Pickard

A couple of years ago when I was 19 I worked in Virgin Mega stores which was the course for my next break out. The air con was so bad and all the dust caused me to spend the November of 2006 in hospital with a sudden skin infection and then Christmas day in the emergency GP with the same.

Chanel Stuckenschneider

Then in 6th grade was another one of my major breakouts. I have a bad reaction to some detergent like stuff, and developed a massive rash on my chest that expanded all the way to my legs, up around my ears, and most of my face and head was cover with the bumps.

Melissa Maxim

It wasn’t until I changed my cleaning products to be all natural and “green” and started to use a great hand lotion from Shaklee (I have tried so many) that my hands and skin have cleared up.

Benedict Harrison Mount

I have tried honestly every single treatment medical science can conjure up and found none to work and refused possibly cancer causing steroid treatment...

James Ead

I am really grateful that my eczema is not worse than it is. My condition is annoying and makes some parts of life more difficult, but it is not as bad as it has been and hopefully it won't get that much worse.

Jon Selby

When I reached my 13 birthday I was involved in a bad accident I was run over by a car in hospital for 12 weeks, what the doctors noticed at the hospital was the eczema had almost cleared up,6 months later it had completely gone.

Goldie Abrin

After dealing with a summer of not wearing tank tops and making excuses why i couldn't go to the pool with my friend I went to the drug store to talk to a pharmacist. He gave me hydrocortisone and told me it may be skin cancer and then I freaked out.

San Nguyen

I experienced extreme physical and psychological consequences. To add on to my dismay, eczema is never fully cured; I only found this out recently.

Laura Manderson

i have tried everything and nothing seems to work at all. i often wonder, why me?

Carlye Schuler

In my sophomore year of high school I was put on a no wheat, dairy, red meat and sugar free diet which made my eczema completely disappear.

Candy Fu

For 2 months, I had to drink chinese medicine everyday, and wash myself in the medicine too. I didn't go out much and my self esteem went very low. I would feel so sad at home that I would actually want to die.

Caroline Ames

I feel out with my adopted mum and the eczema came back I was 18 at the time and I saw lots of doctors who said it was something else.

Megan Bothum

My first outbreak happened when I was 20 years old at the end of October 2006. I thought it was a spider bite. But one month later the “bite” was the size of a half dollar and never stopped itching or oozing.

Emma Maudsley

People's attitude towards people with eczema can really stink. I worked in healthcare retail for a while and was serving a customer who looked at my hands, gave me a filthy look and said "is that contagious?".

Lynette Buchling

Winter time and places where the air is very dry makes it worse but lucky i live by the sea so that helps

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