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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Physiogel cream for my inflammed face

Hi. Remember me sharing with you that I am currently using Physiogel cream for my face. I found another sharing from a website called http://community.livejournal.com/eczematic/208732.html  with regard the feedback on this cream. This website is useful for eczema sufferers as there are sharings from other eczema sufferers all over the world. Check this out.

Recs - physiogel and sonia rykiel

Why Is it Important to Drink Water Before You Go to Sleep? | eHow.com

I recall in my earlier post that I mentioned about drinking water before one sleeps..whether it is good or bad. Read the link below for the answer.

Why Is it Important to Drink Water Before You Go to Sleep? | eHow.com

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Know yourself

I have been monitoring the eczema flareups I have been experiencing in a month. It seems to be there most of the time and when it does not flare up, the feel on the skin is still dry but not itchy. Skin still flakes but lesser. I am in my forties but my skin looks like someone in her fifties..true..I am not exaggerating.

I am pretty sure that sleep - deep sleep, does play a part in the healing process. When I have enough of rest, I tend to find the sores and redness to heal better. Whenever I have some tasks to attend to or I am terribly late for an appointment, I will naturally perspire alot and that's when I feel itchy again. So, stress is one factor that affects my skin condition.

An eczema sufferer should have a routine..sleep on time, wake up before the sun is up, do everything in a slow but steady pace so that it does not disrupt or stress us up unneccesarily. Easier said than done right? When I do things slow but steady, I feel ok but when I rush..my hands will be the first place perspire and the itch will come. The skin on my outer hands and feet have not really looked normal for around 2 years already. Eczema seems to flareup on these areas more frequently than other areas now.

However, I realised that the color tone of my neck down to the ankles have improved with my frequent spa. There are areas with white spots all over my body and upper arms which are actually marks from all the scratching. With spa, these white spots have become less whitish. My knee caps used to be dark because I dare not scrub my skin before. With spa, it softened the outer layer of the skin and I am able to scrub the acummulated dead skin away with loofah.

I consulted a popular dermatologist in PJ some months back, upon persuasion from my sis-in-law and I was surprised that he told me that my skin condition will improve. He asked me to show him the parts that are affected by eczema and when he saw the scratch marks in the process of recovering, he said I'll be ok. As expected he too prescribed me some steroid ointment for the more stubborn eczema on my outer hands and feet.

The short consultation at the dermatologist left me with a deep impression especially when he told me this.. "have a love filled heart and a positive outlook of life and you will be fine" - how wise.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Lalang eyebrows

The rough skin patches on my face have subsided after much patience with application of physiogel cream day and night. Worst is whenever my fingers touch any roughness on the face, I'll automatically start digging scratching or peeling it. There is no end to this process.

I tried wearing soft cotton gloves from Body Shop to lessen the scratching but the rubbing of the face in the night when I sleep resulted to my skin being red from abrasion.

After reading and sharing with other eczema sufferers, I realised that it is not unusual for us to have constant itch around the eyes areas. Very often I will rub my eyes until the lids felt sore and had infection on the inner lids. When I applied steroid cream then, I avoided the eyes areas because the skin around the eyes is thin and sensitive.

I recall that I use to have puffy eyes too and some people advised me to drink less water in the night. On the contrary, some articles on the web advised that drinking some water before sleep can help in reducing any incident of a stroke?? I need to verify this again..

Did I mention that eczema also robbed me of my once so dark and thick eyebrows that my spouse admired? What is left now are some strands of hair here and there which don't look like normal brows..shall I say they look more like lalang or wild grass on dry land? I feel the urge to go for the eyebrows tattoo which my cousin Ling did. They looked fine but I am hesitant firstly because the needles they use to tatoo may worsen my skin condition and secondly, I just can't trust these tattoo artists to create the arch I want...otherwise they may turn out to be like those I call "ah lien" look.