Is my current skin care routine keeping my eczema at bay or not? Suddenly I’m imagining Chris Pratt holding off those velociraptors in Jurassic World… but I digress. While my life-long eczema stand is still far from the pre-nose-dive it did 1.5 years ago, these past two months have seen lots of improvement. I know…
Category: The Eczema Experience
EczeMAD: Lots of medications
Do I need all these medications? I’m on a few medications for my severe eczema. CellCept (mycophenolate) is an immunosuppresent oral steroid I’ve been on for six months. My allergist prescribed me a low dosage (250 milligrams) with the intention of slooooowly chipping away at the severity of my eczema without shocking my skin. I’m…
IT’S RAINING (SKIN) FLAKES
Although I’ve had my itchy skin since I was a mere ‘toddler-Pyra,’ it didn’t enter into its current flaky evolution until the past year. Itchy skin without dryness? I swear it! But I don’t remember much how that strange phenomenon existed because it never bothered my life. I just remember my skin was not the…
ARE YOU ECZE-MAD?
Bum ba da daaaaaa! TSING! (That’s the rumble of a bass drum followed by a cymbal in case you couldn’t figure that out) Introducing… EczeMAD! EczeMAD will be my video blog about living and dealing with eczema (Read here). I plan to produce those short videos alongside this blog. Both the typed and the video…
