I have just had my six monthly checkup with my Dermatologist, Dr John Reed at Oxford Churchill Hospital. We were discussing his insistence that using steroids more frequently to dampen down and reduce inflammation would help my skin. It's a tough one, I always want to follow his advice but there is always a voice inside my head saying, "Don't use the steroids... they're … [Read more...]
Topical steroid addiction and withdrawal and what it means…
I'm addicted. There, I said it. I'm an addict and it's all my fault. Well I didn't know that the drugs I was prescribed would cause any long term problems at the time but it would seem topical steroids are a ticking time bomb. At first the steroids worked but over time higher and higher doses were prescribed to keep the eczema at bay. It took years to understand the … [Read more...]