Day 21 - First Day of the healing phase

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Day 21 - First Day of the healing phase

Today is the first day of healing. I'm using Advantan once per day and Aqueous Cream. Advantan has an active ingredient called Methylprednisolone aceponate. According to the blurb in the box it....relieves the redness, swelling, itching and irritation of the skin in eczema and psoriasis.

It goes on to say: The corticosteroid in Advantan® is suitable to put on the skin. It is therefore called a topical corticosteroid, which is sometimes shortened to topical steroid. Glad that it is suitable to put on the skin: I have!

Now before I go too far I have to say that it's not really doing that much on the itch front! I suppose I should give it a chance, it has a fair acreage on which to do its work. However, Aqueous Cream over the top of Advantan is feeling OK.

Last night the temperature dropped to 5 degrees celcius and the humidity is relatively dry. The humidity is a little challenging, as you don't want your face drying out as that ups the pain and itch, obviously.

Tough night sleeping again - went to sleep at about 10:00pm but woke at 1.30am with a distinct pain on my chin and went to check it out in the mirror, only to find a split of about one centimetre that was leaking a clear fluid (arrowed below). I stopped that flow soon enough but it was stinging nicely, competently, and that was it for the night sleep-wise. So I'm flagging badly right now - 4.00pm in the afternoon.

Photos below post application of Advantan for the first time. This cream is more of a matt effect on the skin, the Aqueous Cream is glossy however, like the Efudix was.

Day 21 left

Day 21 right with chin split arrowed

Learning:

Slow but steady wins the race

Aesop

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So let's see how this goes...Efudex/Efudix

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