I am in pain again!
I am now 46, and believe I am peri-menopausal/menopausal and I have spent my life ridding my body of excema. Now my neck feels like it is going to fall off, thinning skin, hypersensitive, air bothers me, eye lids flake skin. I use unbelievable amounts of moisturizers, lather on cream to help, but I can peel off skin almost daily. It stings like a bug is biting and I know enough to wish it away.
I stopped using the cortisone creams weeks ago, that would usually take care of rare flare ups, as I feel it thins my skin, but it has been weeks of waiting to heal.
I am being thrown back into memories of being in the hospital as a kid, because my excema was so bad I would have to bathe to soak my socks off after school, or sleeves stuck to my arms. I hate this feeling. I know my body is changing, I have dealt with many allergies for years, now 10 years with no wheat, fish or pork and also allergic to latex to name a few, and . . . Bag Balm saved my hands years ago, after 30 years of bad rough hands and I am down to one finger that will not heal, but that is great.
I have had beautiful skin, and no problems until the past 3 months. Yes we have had a bad winter . . . but no worse than the past.
It really frustrates me as I was almost free from skin problems, which took many years, and I am being thrown back to the pain of my youth.
I am physically active weekly but the darn air, and my own sweat is irritating the hell out of me. I can feel my own body weight, which is normal for my height, pulling my neck down, it's so sensitive, thinning skin and absolutely irritating.
Any suggestions or tips or others going through this?
I also can not sleep much due to how uncomfortable it is becoming. Just my husbands breath feels like a wind storm. I am going back to my DR soon, but want to avoid cortisone.