Claire - Week 3 - Lets hope that the lobster look is in this season…
Well hello everyone, I hope your treatment is going well and that the side effects are not that bad! I’ve now discovered how a sultana must feel!!! hahah
So week 3 mmmm interesting to say the least. I attended a birthday party where of course there was a lot of drink. I tried to be sensible and only had a handful of drinks that weekend, little did everyone know that when I was handed vodka it was randomly left or pored into the nearest plant!
In saying that the next 2 days that followed I was very ill. It has totally put me off drinking whilst on this treatment. The excessive redness all over my body was bad enough but I appeared to have all the symptoms of sunstroke, it even resulted in me sitting in a very cool bath whilst shivering! I have then developed the horrid scaly like rash all over my arms and the tops of my legs also. I tried to persuade the pharmacist in Boots to hand over the eczema cream but he wouldn’t do so until I spoke to my derm! Great!
My face has also started to dry out regardless of what I am adding to it. If any thing the most painful is my dry lip, scalp and my eyes.
The routine of having a bath or shower now takes for ever. It begins with washing with Aqueous cream or Sanex, then either simple rich moisturiser or Vaseline repair cream for my face and neck, followed by the new e45 all over body milk and then eye drops! Madness! Let’s hope it will all be worth it.
I’ve also noticed that due to the drying out effect that my liquid intake is going off the chart! I’m now drinking between 8 - 10 pints of water!