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Michelle

May 23, 2009 at 5:22 am | #1

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I’m trying pHisoderm facial wash right now.
I have a dry skin and acne…so it sucks, I use to have eczema on my face but it starting to go away by me using steriod cream. I know it’s not good to use but I don’t care lol…I just wanted to know if you heard any good reviews on this product? Maybe you have tried it out…For make-up I use Marcelle, there hypo-allergenic, and I also like the body shop body butter and mascara. Do you have brown patches after your eczema heals…cuz that has been happening to me a lot…my eczema is pretty much going away but I have lots of brown spots which I wear long sleeves…cuz I’m asshamed to show my arms in public lol…I asked the guy on youtube “myscarletguitar” his looking into it, maybe u might know mroe about it…how to get rid of it?

I love your videos…I look up to it, I would do videos on that too…but I don’t have much confidence like you do, keep up the good work,

Cheers
Mich
Michelle

May 23, 2009 at 5:24 am | #2

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this is the phisoderm I have

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41RR19JVP0L._SL500_AA280_.jpg
Melly

July 4, 2009 at 1:11 am | #3

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Hey,
I too suffer from the lovely eczema and at the moment have a horrible flare-up. It’s all over my body, big patches, little dots and spreading. Boo. It itches so bad. I have tried oatmeal baths, calamine lotion, steroid creams, etc. Finally had to go to the doctor today and get some prednisone. I hope it helps. I find the hot weather makes it worse, as does stress. I really am thankful for your site and your videos, it is wonderful to know that I am not alone!
Nina

July 26, 2009 at 10:40 pm | #4

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Hello there,

I’ve suffered from eczema for 13 years now. What my parents thought to be ringworm on my arm turned out to be eczema. After being diagnosed with eczema I was perscribed topical steroids. Honestly, I wonder if that is was caused my eczema to turn into a bigger problem. I would apply the cream and the spot would clear up and turn up in another area with avengence. My arms and legs were most affected, I had oozing itchy patches that forced me to wear pants and long sleeve shirts even in the midst of summer. During young adulthood 18-24ish it was concentrated mostly on my trunk of my body, my arms and my face. There would be times my face would would be covered in raised itchy patches. At a point it time I had major flare up, I had it all over my body, my hands were covered in it my entire torso and scalp was covered with eczema causing it to itch and peel and lose hair. It was the most miserable time of my life. I had anxiety over the itching and my appearance. My doctor eventually gave me atarax (really strong antihistamine), a shot of cortisone, and antidepressants. All witch helped me overcome the flare up. Right now I am 28 years old and still being effected by eczema. Although, I have most of it under control. I still get flare ups, especially on my hands.
Eczema has not done much for my self-esteem. I still have scars all over my legs and arms from it. It has affected my relationship with others. And it is amazing how much I have adapted to doing things to accomadate my eczema hang-ups. Fortunately, I have good support from others. I also find that being open about instead of trying to hide it is also therapeutic. But, It has taken a while for me to get to this point. I think what you’re doing is really great and helpful to others. Here is a list of products I use currently that have really helped keep my eczema under control:

Elocon cream for flare ups.
Cetaphil cleanser for face and body (I apply a coat of it after I shower and wipe the excess)
Weleda seabuckthorn oil after shower to lock in moisture (keeps skin soft)
Burt’s Bee’s coconut foot cream for feet and sometimes elbows.
Alba Botanica Nourishing Honeydew hairwash (avoiding SLSs in my shampoos have really helped)
Aquaphor ointment for my hands
Gloves in a bottle for hands (protectant, while at work)
Burt’s Bee’s Pomegranate lip balm.

Also, I’ve had good luck with sweet almond oil I mix a few drops in my moisturizer.

Good luck to you.

PS. I’ve also tried modifying my diet. Eating junkfood and soda definetely exacerbates inflammation so I try to avoid it.
Nina

July 28, 2009 at 6:29 pm | #5

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ack, my long life-story post did not get submitted. Long story short. I’ve had severe eczema from 15 up until now. For the most part I feel that I’ve managed it, but I still deal with dry skin, scarring, keratosis pilaris on my legs, and eczema mostly on my hands. At the moment I’m using Ivory soap, which suprisingly does not irritate my skin. Alba botanica honeydew nourishing shampoo, which is the only thing that keeps my scalp eczema at bay. If I use SLS shampoos, forget it. For moisturizers I use cetaphil cream on my upper boby, and Weleda seabuckthorn oil on my legs. For my face I use cetaphil lotion which does a good job at keep my skin moisturized. For flare ups I use Elocon cream, which I’ve had better luck with than stronger steroid creams/ointments. Also, I find that junk food makes my inflammation worse. For supplments I take a multivitamin, probiotics, and sometimes fishoil. I don’t think the supplments have really helped my eczema, but I take them anyway for good measure. For the eczema on my hands I use aquaphor once or twice daily, then “gloves in a bottle throughout the day”, seems to really help. Your website is really great! Keep up the good work.
lyssorthat

July 28, 2009 at 10:07 pm | #6

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Hey Nina! Thanks for you testimonial, I actually did get the long post!
Lena

September 6, 2009 at 6:42 am | #7

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Hello!! I have been battling eczema since I was born. I have had it before I could even spell it (Seriously! I still spell it “excema” sometimes!). I have eczema on my hands, legs, arms, and sometimes my face. I am VERY happy to say that my hands are finally almost healed up (I knew my letters to Santa would work one day)!! My eczema comes from a mixture of contact dermatitis and allergies. I have to be careful what I put on my skin and in my stomach. Soy, tree nuts, and petroleum products are not my friends. I’m allergic to tons of other things too (Boo. Last month I found out I have to stop eating anything that has egg.) I don’t have a dermatologist, I have an allergist who believes on natural medicine and as little chemicals as possible (sometimes I beg to differ when it comes to concealer). With my 20 years of “experience”, I have learned to be as happy as I can be (even when I want to rip off my face). I have learned a lot over the years, like that as you get older and your hormones change, your skin and allergies change too (last month I could eat toast. I miss toast.) I have also learned that sometimes a product that has worked for you for years will suddenly stop working, that sometimes it can cause what it used to fix, that food rotations and skin product rotations can help a LOT. And most of all…that it’s my personality that counts (even if I’m a dork)! I have a lot to share, if you have the time! Best Wishes and thanks for making me feel like I’m still not the only one out there with eczema! ~Lena
Lori

January 18, 2010 at 3:17 am | #8

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I can’t really begin to express my deepest gratitude for finding you and this site. Just as I can’t really pinpoint the moment that eczema began to shape my life. I was born with eczema and it has only progressively gotten worse. I have eczema, asthma, pcos, and I’m overweight and the combination of them all seems to bring my life to a screeching halt. I can’t remember a moment in my life where I have genuinely been at peace with my skin. I can’t remember what it feels like to not be overcome with rashes and uncontrollable itching, and flaking, and redness. I feel like I’ve tried everything and nothing seems to make anything any better. I’ve tried all the topical creams, ointments and lotions, from elocon to elidel, protopic, fluocinolone, triamcinolone, hydrocortizone… and on top of it all I’ve tried every allergy medication available, from the time I was too young to even swallow pills and on, until all the prescription medications became over the counter safe. Claritin, benadryl, zyrtec, allegra, ceterizine, hydroxizine, etc.. and currently I’m taking immunotherapy shots to build up my immunity and attempt to control some of this madness. But my body doesn’t seem to give in, and the medications keep getting more plentiful and stronger.

I’m not sure what to do with myself anymore. I find that I am often weighted down emotionally. And as much as I know that I should love myself for who I am, it’s just so hard to look in the mirror and see what I see. To understand why this is happening to me, and to cope with the physical and emotional pain that comes with it all on a day-to-day basis.

Recently, my skin has entered a seemingly endless chain of allergic irritation, redness, rash, and immense itching, and extreme dryness. I’ve been flaking for 2 months and no allergy specialist, internist, or dermatologist has been able to help me. They all say I’m “doing all the right things” and they “don’t know why” this is happening. And so I’ve been trying to tough it out. But the flaking is uncontrollable and I can feel the gaze of the public burning a hole in my face. My face has been peeling more than a sunburn, large and small pieces of skin everywhere. Like terrible dandruff, but just on my face. And it hurts, my face has cracked open above both my eyes, my upper lip and both sides of my chin. and I can’t even open my mouth to eat food without the cracks reopening and bleeding.

It seems that everywhere I try looking, I find communities of people talking about terrible eczema, but for some reason, I don’t feel like I’ve ever met anyone with eczema like mine. Not to lessen any one else’s symptoms at all! I just feel incredibly alone. And I finally got my skin to stop peeling, and even look normal for 2 days, and today it is over come with redness and bumps and dryness and itching again today, and I have brought out all the big guns that I have to try and get it to be just a normal break out, and not enter back into 2 more months of uncontrollable peeling.

I know deep inside that I am beautiful as everyone else is, but with each passing day it becomes increasingly harder to tell myself this and actually believe it. Sometimes I just want to sit and cry and pray that this will all end sometime soon, but I get so frustrated sometimes and I can’t control my anger. I put on creams and oils in hopes that it will help to heal this disaster that has become my face, but doing so sometimes feels so futile when I know that tomorrow, and the day after, and even the day after that, I will wake up and again face myself and the eczema that has become my life.

I feel as though I have overstepped my welcome here in this little comment box.. and I apologize for my wordy nature. Finding this little community of people who can potentially understand the pain that I have been plagued with every day of my 22 years of existence brings just a little joy into my life, and just enough hope that maybe we can all make it though this.

Thanks.
Julie A

October 1, 2010 at 6:09 am | #9

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Hi everyone, I’ve had eczema since I was 3 or 4 years old. I started out on my wrists. Then when i got to elementary, it went to the insides of my elbows and neck. Somehow my wrists recovered when i got Middle school. Middle school my neck, back of knees, upperlip, eyelids was very bad. High school was the same but MUCH worse!
Then in college, somehow it got even worser. My fingers were cracking, etc.

I stopped using prescription creams because i realized it never really stopped the rashes and I believed that it was making my immune system worse and worse.

So I finally went to this Chinese doctor who did acupuncture on me and made me drink the grossest herbal brew everyday. She was really expensive. After 2 months. Everything cleared. I remember it vividly, I was sitting on the floor and suddenly i looked at my hands. Nothing was red, nothing was cracked. I felt a sense of peace that i had never felt before. I went to the bathroom and my face was NORMAL and not swollen. I felt so good to not itch.

The doctor visits were once a week. My mother decided that acupuncture every week was way too much and risky (btw I am chinese and her dad was famous doctor in China) so she told me to goto another chinese doctor to just start drinking the herbal medicine to cleanse and rebuild my internal system.

Of course, when my skin got better I would ahve a slice of pizza here and there.
A dip of ranch dressing….some shrimp….oh boy. back to square 1. I also sleep very late because I am in the graphic design industry.

I am 30 now…and I’m realizing that I need to have more discipline. My skin and health is in my own hands.

What I think really helps me is:

#1: Eating an allergy free diet, also eating foods that are good and gentle to your kidneys and liver. (not too much protein, no alcohol, MORE FRESH VEGETABLES, no processed foods, NO DAIRY, or any other allergy foods)

#2: Getting at least 8 hours of sleep

#3: Exercise or Yoga

YOU MUST DO THESE THINGS EVERYDAY. I know its EXXXTREMELY hard, but we gotta try because you dont wanna deal with this stuff when you are old.