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Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 11:12 am
I got to see my favourite doctor who has prescribed me the brand new alternative-to-steroid creams that I mentioned. This guy is ace - there's some doctors that get so arsey if you suggest stuff to them, and maintain that as a mere patient you could never possibly have more knowledge than them, even about a condition you have suffered damn near birth. Whereas in spite of the fact that my doctor had only really heard about this stuff briefly from a rep (until recently it's just been trialed in a couple of big hospitals in London) he was quite happy to sit there and look up all the details with me, go through all the info he could find to make sure it wouldn't conflict with anything else, and then write me up a trial prescription with instructions to come back and let him know how it went so he knows whether to recommend it in future.

Now I just need to see if I can find a chemist that's heard of it...
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 03:15 am (UTC)
I like doctors like that... unfortunatly, there aren't any round here any more *sigh*
lots of love
Patrick
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 03:17 am (UTC)
Is this about skin problems? Cos if it is, I gave up on the creams cos they never worked, and am now on a pill called Dianett which helps clear skin (hormones) and works as a (the) pill too. It does seem to have helped mine a bit, maybe worth a try?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 03:23 am (UTC)
It's eczema... bane of my life ever since I was three.

Last time it got seriously bad and the steroids stopped working it was chinese medicine that cleared it up, but that's expensive and even though it works quickly the follow-up is long and involved.

I have high hopes for this stuff which is supposed to be a completely new approach - instead of using topical steroids to thin the skin it works directly on the allergic reaction. I'm sure it has it's own set of drawbacks but I'm hopful they'll be better than the steroid ones.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 03:27 am (UTC)
Oh no! I'm sorry :-( Mine is a dermatitus thing, dry skin like eczema but looks like bad acne round my chin and mouth, peri oral dermatitus they call it. I send off to for samples of new eczema cremes and have just found a new one called Eumo (www.skinflare-up.com) Have you heard of this one?
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 03:35 am (UTC)
Ooh, thanks *looks*

Damn. Unfortuately it's just another steroid, and the ones that have been failing to have an effect have been prescription ones that are much stronger, which is why I'm trying to get away from that as the only real steroid-based option I have is to move up a level to one that is stonger too.

For flare-ups I'd actually recommend allergenics - it's a non-steroid alternative that has lots of essential oils in and really does stop the itch - in fact for me more so than steroid creams which always seem to make me MORE itchy when I first apply them. It's been what has kept my skin under control for the past few years without any real need for steroid treatments, it's only this one time that it's had to admit defeat. But I'd still heartily recommend it none the less (all good health food shops)
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 05:52 am (UTC)
odd approach, but have you tried drinking goats milk?

when i was little we had a small-holding in devon and one guy would drive down from scotlamd to buy our goats milk for his daughter who had terrible eczema...

'tis avaliable in supermarkets now but rumour has it that its tastes foul :(
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 06:08 am (UTC)
what's it called? not pro-topic by any chance?

me and paul were both given that as this new non-steriod wonder drug and it didn't do the job and we've both gone back to our old creams. the only thing we found worked was UV treatment.

i hope whatever they've given you makes your skin better though!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 10:38 am (UTC)
It does begin with a p but think it ends in an x. When I actually collect my prescription tomorrow I'll let you know.

I forgot to ask him about UV treatment - I keep wanting to try it cos it's done my Dad wonders. Though I might do what he's done and see if I can find a proper health club with a sunbed.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 01:18 pm (UTC)
i've asked to be referred back for more UV treatment as my eczema is getting out of hand again. but i know the waiting list is huge so i asked my doctor if i could go to a sunbed place in the meantime and she nearly had a fit! telling me not to do that til i've spoken to a specialist at the hospital. thing is... if it carries on getting worse, i'll just go to one anyway as it's really starting to p*ss me off again!
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 01:47 pm (UTC)
I wouldn't go to one of those tanning places where people go to get a miracle instant tan and they basically microwave you. But if it's something like a health club or sports centre one there's going to be people on hand that will advise you. I think Dad just gets the very mild short exposure that you're meant to have when you first start building your skin up if you're going to go abroad and haven't been out in the sun for years, and that's still enough to have a huge effect.

I'm sure the proper hospital one is better but if you're sensible I don't see why you shouldn't do it yourself. After all, you do get exposed to UV every day anyway, from the big shiny thing in the sky, so it's not as if it's some kind of powerful drug you need expert medical supervision for. I went for the completely home grown option of sitting out in the sun for half an hour twice a day whenever it was nice this summer and it did me the world of good.
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 06:44 am (UTC)
I got to see my favourite doctor who has prescribed me the brand new alternative-to-steroid creams that I mentioned.


An actor from a classic british sci-fi show appeared and prescribed you steroid cream???
Thursday, October 2nd, 2003 04:38 pm (UTC)
Possibly Eddie Izzard... ;-)