Our holiday seems a lifetime away, almost 3 weeks since we returned now. This last weekend we were away in Southampton and visited the Hillier Gardens at Romsey. So many trees and so little energy to walk round them all. I did get a few photos of some of the stranger ones though.
Tomorrow I see my new (yet again) consultant. The lovely chap I saw in December has apparently left and I'm seeing a locum once again. I just hope he decides to go with the other chaps plan of action or else I'll be having another boat load of tests again. I just want to start some proper treatment, after all I've been waiting 7 months over which time I have put on weight after the steroid trial, have begun to seize up and and now can't walk very well. Additionally the excruciating skin itch is back with a vengeance. What started as a minor irritation when I was bitten on holiday has developed into a large red, raised patch on my arm which itches intensely. It wakes me up it's so bad. Surely a sign of galloping psoriasis if ever I saw one. Fingers crossed that matey tomorrow agrees and finally does something about it. Nothing I have tried works at all. I can't believe that last year I was so well (and so thin - for me anyway) and now I am almost back to square one, just the Lyme symptoms are still thankfully absent.
The last few weeks I have done what I can to help with Mother in Law, saw the death of a very old friend whom I shall miss intensely and provided bacon sandwiches and tea on tap to the other friend who is helping WH to build our porch. At least at home normality rules, it still looks like a building site!
Tomorrow I see my new (yet again) consultant. The lovely chap I saw in December has apparently left and I'm seeing a locum once again. I just hope he decides to go with the other chaps plan of action or else I'll be having another boat load of tests again. I just want to start some proper treatment, after all I've been waiting 7 months over which time I have put on weight after the steroid trial, have begun to seize up and and now can't walk very well. Additionally the excruciating skin itch is back with a vengeance. What started as a minor irritation when I was bitten on holiday has developed into a large red, raised patch on my arm which itches intensely. It wakes me up it's so bad. Surely a sign of galloping psoriasis if ever I saw one. Fingers crossed that matey tomorrow agrees and finally does something about it. Nothing I have tried works at all. I can't believe that last year I was so well (and so thin - for me anyway) and now I am almost back to square one, just the Lyme symptoms are still thankfully absent.
The last few weeks I have done what I can to help with Mother in Law, saw the death of a very old friend whom I shall miss intensely and provided bacon sandwiches and tea on tap to the other friend who is helping WH to build our porch. At least at home normality rules, it still looks like a building site!
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Keep on keeping on. Sometimes it is all there is left to do! Take care.
My skin is weird. As a baby, I had a severe reaction to the whooping cough vaccine which caused every inch of skin on my body to be covered in rashes (it took several months of my parents applying ointments and slathering me with aqueous creams and stuff like that at bathtime before I improved).
At the time my parents were told that I needed to avoid the whooping cough vaccine (ie booster- but they were pressured into giving me the vaccine again a few years later) and that I had eczema. I ended up with a couple of skin patches over the years but nothing as disastrous as what I had as a baby. My parents realised my skin reacted to certain foods, especially eggs so rationed my intake of that and my clothes have had to be washed in non bio powder/liquid ever since (or else I'm covered in rashes all over again).
Since I started secondary school though, whenever I got a new skin rash, I was told that it was psoriasis and given a steroid cream and the rash might clear up after a few weeks (except for one rash on my elbow which I've had since 1997 and can't seem to shift). The weird thing now though is that when I speak about my skin problems at Breakspear, my Dr there says that this patch is not psoriasis. She hasn't been more specific about what it actually could be so I'm baffled.
Anyway to cut a long story short, I read somewhere that applying a mixture containing 80% sweet almond oil and 20% neem oil is supposed to help treat skin problems caused by psoriasis. I'm supposed to see a difference after about 3 weeks (I've only tried it for about a week so far). I'll keep you posted as to whether it helps. Neem has LOADS of medicinal properties, without the side effects you'd get from steroids.
Neelu
Thanks Jozephine for your kind words.
Neelu, keep me posted on this one. I'm maxing out on Sanctuary stuff rght now, one of the few brands I'm not allergic too. BTW do your heels crack too?
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