Update on psoriasis/eczema

So if you didn't read my post a while back about my psoriasis I'll quickly catch you up.

Went to a new dermatologist here in Charleston and she said I don't have psoriasis I have eczema. She gave me new lotion to use, I switched soap and she gave me a medicine to help with the scars that my previous medicine caused.

So what has happened since . . .  I went for a follow up appointment and my legs had improved a little bitty bit. I told her that I think that this treatment would work if I could get my legs back to normal but I doing this treatment isn't good enough to get them there. I itch ALLLL the time! It's horrible. So she gave me some medicine to use that didn't have steroids in it for the itching. I used it a couple of days and then all the sudden WHAM hives! It was aweful! Obviously I stopped using everything, medicine, lotion. They covered my legs, after a few days it had spread to my stomach, then my arms, then my back. She gave me some allergy (hydroxizine) medicine to help with the hives and a new medicine with steroids to help the itchiness of the hives. It took over a month for it to complete clear up. In which time I discovered that the hydroxizine makes my hair slowly fall out. So that was great.

Hives covering my legs

Spread to my stomach

Anyways I decided that the lotion the doctor wanted me to use is stupid so I went back to the lotion I was using. I also tried out some different things to see if anything irritates my skin. Different detergent, shaving cream, milk, bread. Nothing. Changing or cutting those things out made any difference. I a currently use CeraVe lotion, CeraVe in the shower and that's all I'm doing. The more I get out in the sun the better things are.

I went to see a different dermatologist just to get a 3rd opinion lol even though I agree with the eczema diagnosis I don't really like the treatment she thought I should use. The new dermatologist agreed with me. It is eczema and the other doctor here in Charleston was suggesting a weird treatment for it. He told me what I'm doing is about all I can do. And that I'm doing a good job but that he thinks I should have a steroid cream to use occasionally. That my eczema is bad enough that I'll need steroid medicine occasionally. There's just no way around it. Which I agree with. I really liked the newest doctor and I will be seeing him from now on for dermatology. lol.

So that's it. CeraVe lotion and soap, prescription medicine with the lowest dose of steroid I can have for those moments I want to have my legs removed cause they itch so bad. But my legs are doing pretty well now. I've adjusted pretty well to not using medicine and having to live with things the way they are. If I keep it up I should have pretty normal looking legs the majority of the time like I did with the psoriasis medicine I had used.