She had used steroid cream for nine years when doctors suggested she stopped using it. The resulting effect caused her much pain and discomfort.
Doctors thought the had eczema, but she later found out it was an allergy to dust mites.But Laura didn’t realise her skin had become ‘addicted’ to the creams and giving them up meant experiencing terrible withdrawals.
‘I got out of the bath one morning and the skin on my face had flared up. It was like a butterfly effect, spreading right across the middle of my face. It looked inflamed and felt very sore.‘The irony is that, until this happened, I’d thought my skin was my best asset.’ ‘They were the only support who could relate to me and my condition, which I have had throughout this horrible journey and I don’t know what I would have done without them.’
She said: ‘I had just started a new job when I stopped using the steroid creams and was scared I would lose it because my symptoms were so bad, especially at night, I wasn’t sleeping and so I wasn’t as focused at work as I should have been.‘I would have to get up at 4am every night to take a lukewarm bath and try to soothe the itching, which was so bad I would scratch until the skin – which is very fragile as a result of this condition – would bleed.
She has fewer flare ups and when she does, they are less severe and do not last as long as they did when she first stopped using the steroid creams.Despite the problems she has developed since stopping the creams, she has never gone back to using them.
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