Elizabeth King
Age: 40
Career: Unemployed due to TSW and fibromyalgia
When did you cease using topical steroids: June 13 2015
What type did you use: Honestly can’t remember them all.
What is your favorite product for comfort? A bath with sea salt, apple cider vinegar, and Aquafor. I also take LDN which helps.
What is the hardest thing to deal with during this condition? The pain (physical and emotional) and shedding.
What is the first thing you will do when healed? Swim in the ocean!
Joanna Hinz
Age: 31
Career: Unemployed due to TSW
When did you cease using topical steroids: May 2015
What type did you use: Fucicort, Elomet, Hydrocortizone, Elidel, Protopic, Elocom
What is your favorite product for comfort? Beeswax/Olive Oil, Lavender essential oil as a sleeping aid, apple cider vinegar
What is the hardest thing to deal with during this condition?
It is very difficult to narrow down only one part which was the hardest since the condition affects all parts of your life. I will just try to say what I feel are the top three hardest things:
* Being bedridden with your life being on hold and the disconnect from the outside world due to physical non-functionality, chronic pain and anxieties, while everyone around you is chasing their dreams and continues with normal day to day life
* Having no relief or break ever and months and months of sleepless and itchy nights, the suffering which goes with it during those hours of no sleep; while my body needed all the rest to re-gain strength and energy for my next day of trying to cope with responsibilities as a mother and wife, with no family support as I do not live in my home country.
* The way the condition affects a previously healthy mind in the worst ways possible and messes with your perception of the world around you, yourself, your loved ones, bringing the darkest and most negative thoughts you never knew existed before.
What is the first thing you will do when healed? I will love pursuing my career, enjoy the warmth of sun rays on my skin, go to the beach and swim with my son in the sea, go back to my passion of being physically active: working out, dancing and yoga.
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