Since September I've had this really itchy blistery rash on one hand. It started as this really tiny patch of itchy flaky skin and has spread into these red patches which sometimes have dry blisters.
I initially just went to the pharmacist who told me it was a fungal infection/infected eczema and everything in between, spent a fortune on different potions but nothing was helping.
Saw a doctor who claimed it was discoid/pomplyx eczema so I was prescribed steroid cream. Nothing touched it, went back, told to keep using the cream until it cleared up. By December it hasn't changed but it does go in cycles. Starts off as a light red itchy patch, gets darker as it dries out before it clears up and starts again somewhere new but only on this one hand/wrist. Nowhere else, not on my fingers, arm, elbow, just my palm and my wrist.
I went back again in December and got given a stronger steroid cream, told to use it once a day then as it cleared up use it every other day. Except it doesn't clear up, as soon as one spot clears up it comes back again despite the cream!
Went back again a couple of weeks ago to be told it's contact dermatitis and something I'm touching and got prescribed the original steroid cream which surprise surprise isn't working.
I'm thoroughly fed up now, my hand constantly itches, it wakes me up in the night and I'm scratching it which I know I shouldn't but it's driving me insane. I need a solution but I've no idea what it is!
Nothing has changed in my day to day life since before September. Same job, same washing powder, pets, kids, stress levels. I touch a billion things daily with both hands but it's only my less dominant hand affected!
I looked at buying a light which is meant to help but at £300 it's not something I can spend when there is no guarantee it will work. If it helped I would but it tomorrow.
I've asked for a referral to a dermatologist and got told no because it was pointless. What else can I do short of chopping my hand off?