The History

Since I was a small child, I remember my grandparents used to take me to see faith healers of all sorts... they made me bathe in eggs, bathe with flowery water, drink urine (??), and etc, etc.. of course, none work, otherwise I would'nt be writing about this. But they sympathised with me and just couldnt sit still watching me in pain. Everytime I bathe, I used to cry because the stinging pain was so unbearable. It was oozing with liquid and when it dries up, it will be so dry and scalling and when I walked, it will cracked and bled. This usually happens after an episode with an asthma attack. But since this blog is about eczema, so I wont talk about asthma.

When I was schooling, I used to be so embarrased when I had to wear shorts for physical exercise (PE). My classmates would gauked at the blisters behind my knees and they would be laughing. To avoid doing PE, I had my grandmother wrote a letter to my class teacher telling her that I had to be excused from PE as advised by my doctor, as it would aggravate my asthma! it was a brilliant idea, because since then on, my teacher would asked me to wait in the classroom while the other students where doing their PE lessons.

The Treatments...

My first experience with steroid was when I was in Standard six. The good doctor prescribed Nerisone cream and after the first application, it stopped the inflammation and itch. What a miracle! I told myself. For the first time, my skin look great and was so smooth like a baby's bottom! I was on it for a few years but later on my skin became immune to it. The battle has started again....

From then on, I was on every type of steroid cream in the market. I also switched a few skin specialist along the way.. At one time, I visited Dr Ting in Jln Imbi and he had injected Kenacort (I believe) to each blisters. It worked wonderfully! The rashes and blisters were healed in one week.. I was so happy and thought that I was cured, finally... but then, two years later.. suddenly, probably after an allergic reaction to food (it must be prawns), I had another flare up...


I changed another specialist, this time I visited a colleague of Dr Ting, Dr Koh in PJ. He injected me on another steroid, but this time not on the blisters but on the buttock. This too worked fine for another three years, but as time goes by, the reaction were reduced. By this time, I noticed that I had knee pains and climbing staircase was hell! At the orthopedics, after an xray, they found out that I have osteoarthritis.. According to them, prolong use of steroid were the culprit that had cause this (OA). Well, now the steroids injection had to be stopped immediately... that was in early 2008. And since then, I am on a lookout for other treatments or medicine for my eczema.. The search has started...