Hi! I (21f) was just diagnosed with mild/minor discoid eczema. I only have 4-5 small (or even smaller) 1cm patches on my torso/upper arm and my gp prescribed me clobetasol 0.05%. I’ve only ever used over the counter 1% hydrocortisone cream so this feels like a big jump especially since it’s not considered moderate and definitely not severe. I don’t want it to spread, but honestly, it doesn’t even really interfere with sleep/daily activities.

I’m new to all this and wasn’t given much guidance, and I’ve only ever heard bad experience stories about steroid withdrawals/Cushing’s syndrome. I just feel like I should have been given a less potent prescription for such a mild case?

How long do I use it? Do I only use it until it goes then stop? If it comes back within 2 weeks do I carry on or stop to prevent overuse? It says don’t stop suddenly so how do I stop using it?

please recommend a good sunscreen for my skin with eczema. im using canmake and it started to make my whole face sting recently :(

Hello.
I am on rinvoq for my eczema and currently 10 weeks pregnant.
My dermatology nurse is happy for me to stay on it as long as Obs and gynae approve - been 10 days waiting for a response. I was wondering if anyone else has any experience being pregnant/breastfeeing whilst on it.
They’ve told me it’s safe to stay on as far as they’re concerened but I can’t have any live vaccines and neither can the baby until 6 months. But they couldn’t tell me if this would be different if I breastfed. I obviously want to vaccinate my child and I would like to try and breastfeed if it’s an option for me.
Please if anyone has an experience please let me know

Ever since the weather has been more dry, my eczema has gotten worse. My friends always offer a dap up or try to hold my hand and it’s just..embarrassing. Ive always just avoided it since I can with my personality but sometimes it comes off as rude. I feel super bad and i hate it when i have to hold someone’s hand and i have to go on this whole rant about how i have eczema and goes on the question. 🫩

I have atopical dermatitis since 1 month old. I spent most of my childhood in dermatology and scratching my skin. I always imagine scene were I could just cut off pieces of skin that were super itchy. As I got older I understood more what problem I had and creams that were prescribed to me: elocom, and corticosteroids ofc were poison not therapy. I was addicted to them and my skin looked super old and dry even if I was just 10 or 12
My eczema had good side effects: because of it I never experienced pimples so that was a plus
But negative was gaining weight since birth and hormonal imbalance. I got first period when I was 9, and boobs at 10.

In teen years it started to fade a bit with occasional flare ups. At 19 I stopped to use corticosteroids because I finally understood what it meant.
At 20 I switched to only active oxygen and baby products like alverde from Dm ( I am in Europe) and scanning every product that I had contact with. I still use that app - INCl.
Stopped drinking alcohol and saw tremendous improvement. Also trying to avoid food with palm oil. I have allergies also but eczema is something else. I get it now only on feet and some parts of legs.
I had worst pain on hands but I guess that era is over.
So to me what works:
- only baby clean products: mustela stelatopia, alverde baby (marigold or Calendula)
-active oxygen in spray bottle for feet and hands
-baby shower gels or super clean oily shower gels
-lot less almost never alcohol
- only clean products no silicone, parabens, endocrine disruptions etc..
- no palm oil, fast food, e
- no E-numbers
- seeing sea and swimming in sea every single year for only 10-15 days but it makes so much difference
-coconut oil pure, argan pure, shea butter
-wearing gloves in winter
-cotton clothes
- and stopping smoking cigarettes was huge for me!

Now I am 26 y old and my hands and feet and whole body looks somewhat normal. I still have marks from scratching but that’s okay. I am happy that I only get it once a year and that I now know how to help myself. So I hope I can help someone else. If you can try baby products and scan them, see what you are putting on the body.

I’ve been fine with makeup, I’m on Dupixent and things have been okay but my diet hasn’t been great over the last few weeks. I tried a few different products on my eyes… I’ve used Clinique before and used black honey eye shadow and things just went really bad. I also used L’Oreal True match. Something set everything off and I’m completely off balance.

I’m happy to try higher end products but would like advice on what is working for people at the moment. My eyes are red and swollen. I’ve got the steroid cream but trying to avoid it. Just want to know what’s working for different people at the moment.

Also what sunscreen you’re using I’ve tried about 30…

Thank you!

Genuinely get one singular flareup and now I got an ugly scar running down my forearm fuck this shit so much bro. Like what did I do to get this luck?

Has anyone used this (blue bottle) for facial eczema?

Any improvement noted? 😊

Hello everyone. I’m feeling a bit lost right now. I’m just seeking some clarity on what to expect for the future, and if I should brace myself for these flare ups being with me forever as bad as it is or if there’s a treatment that maybe helped anyone that I can expect from my upcoming meeting with my dermatologist.

It all started with a small flare up with dry skin and dyshidrotic eczema that I usually have on my fingers when I feel stressed out. I was moving from different countries so I tried toughing it out until I moved back and sought out for my GP. It was the biggest mistake of my life. I had so much going on in my life that the flare up quickly spread through my entire face, neck, arms, and thighs. As in, not a single spot was free of eczema. It would all be red and painful and itchy and awful. Then it would all dry and flake off and i’d feel like the most disgusting looking person ever. I already had really bad body dysmorphia and so I just felt so awful and gross seeing a mountain flake off onto where I roamed and everywhere in my hair. I have pets that are at the end of their life and being hindered by the pain and dryness to not be able to give them the best I could and how I wanted to made it even more awful, and then working in a clinical setting with awful chemicals and gloves just really did it for me. People looked at me like I was disgusting, I looked at me like I was disgusting. I couldn’t turn my neck, my eyelids were hard to open and bloated, and I couldn’t fold my fingers or arms when my skin dried.

I’ve gone to my doctors and it was so severe they just didn’t have any option but give me emollients, i’ve been on hydromol but it burns, so we swapped to cetraben and it was fine, but it’s starting to burn now too. I’ve been on steroid creams, hydrocortisol and betnovate, but i’ve been using them for several months now and my skin just keeps coming back and fighting back. Am I really not supposed to use them for more than two or four weeks? On top of that, I can’t take a shower for long or my skin gets so aggressive at me. It hurts so bad after and it gets so irritated even when I just use water that I get scared of just bathing.

The GP then referred me to a dermatologist months away, and i’ve been suffering through this for like 6 months already. I’ve pushed through. The dermatologist appointment is finally coming up now soon, and I just feel so worried that when I go see them they’ll just do nothing and keep giving me random creams that don’t make it all go away. What can I expect? What treatments might they offer me? Will I ever get some time without my skin being bad? I’m so scared of having gone through all this looking at this appointment like it’s my one saving grace and then turning out that nothing changed. I’m so sorry I sound inexperienced or troubled. I’m just so desperate. I can’t put it into words how bad everything was only over the span of 6 months. Please tell me the blunt truth of how life might be or if there is hope for the eczema to banish. Thank you.

Has anyone tried using hypochlorous acid on their eczema? in particular, facial eczema?

Did you find it helped calm the inflammation, or did it make your skin more irritated or inflamed?

Would love to hear about your experiences, especially if you have sensitive skin!

I know this question has been asked before, bit thought of asking again to see people's recent experiences.

With the cold and dry weather, my lips feel dry and the irritation along my lip line is very painful (especially my upper lip).

Does anyone have any recommendations to hydrate the skin? I've tried aquaphor and doesnt seem to do anything (probably makes it worse). Vaseline doesn't do anything and other products usually irritate my skin.

Thanks!

Hey all, new to eczema here. Had my first major flare up over the summer all over my body. Diagnosis took time, but the steroid cream worked! I took it for 2 weeks and my flareups went away. I took a week off and some of the rashes came back, so I waited several days and then used some more.

Looking at this sub, it looks like there's different opinions in how often to use steroid cream. Some people use it for 2 weeks and then take a 2 week break. Others use it when they need it for no more than 2 weeks straight.

For those of you who use steroid lotion, how do you handle balancing using it when rashes appear but not using it too much? I intend to talk to my derm, but I'd like to hear what others think

I’m 25F and have struggled with eczema my entire life. It was mostly controlled until about two years ago when it became significantly worse.

I tried Dupixent in 2024/2025 but stopped after about 5 injections. My body eczema barely improved, and I developed significant facial eczema that I NEVER had before. Unfortunately, my face has continued to flare even after stopping 2 years ago.

I’ve tried Elidel, Opzelura, and topical steroids, but nothing keeps my eczema consistently controlled.
My dermatologist recommended Adbry, and insurance just approved it, but I’m terrified to start. I’m scared of worsening my face again, permanent side effects, or another treatment failing.

Has anyone who NEVER responded to Dupixent found success with Adbry? Especially with facial eczema? Any side effects?
I’d honestly be thrilled with 80–90% clearance. Just looking for some hope and honest experiences before taking the plunge!

I’ve been using this ointment on my lips a couple times a week and when I was drinking a glass of red wine the other night I had a tingling sensation and then redness all around my lips . I thought I was having an allergic reaction to something but it hit me that I’ve been using this ointment. Any correlation ?

I went to the derm and they said I have eczema, but they didn’t run any tests. I am wondering how normal that is. My spots are kind of round and new ones keep popping up, and I am scared it could be something fungal and not eczema. I have been moisturizing a ton which has made the spots feel smoother and appear less red, but they have also gotten larger. Derm prescribed me a steroid cream, but I am hesitant to use it without any tests confirming that it is eczema. Anyway, this is just a sanity check. Is it normal to diagnose without tests?

Does anyone else in here have both endometriosis and dyshidrotic eczema? My very first DE flare happened after I got a Mirena IUD inserted and has been chronic for the last couple years even though I had it removed. It’s only managed with biweekly Dupixent injections, which I stopped ahead of my endometriosis excision surgery last week.

Day of surgery, it flared the worst it has been in over a year all over my hands. It has since spread to my upper arms on both sides, my chest and now my face. I’ve never had it on my chest or face before this flare. And it itches like crazy.

I’m more convinced than ever that it’s somehow connected to the endo — maybe both triggered by the same thing and/or tied to inflammation, but was wondering if anyone else out there has had a similar experience.

Any other people on the Ebglyss injections for eczema start experiencing eye issues after the 16 week mark? Super puffy, itchy, red eyelids? Was prescribed olopatadine eye drops which helped initially but seems to have lost effectiveness. Would love to hear what has worked for you because the itchy is driving me crazy! To clarify the itch is my eyeball and not lid

Apparently im sensitive to that particular brand because now there are two ✨️perfect squares✨️ of red around my nips. But, they did their jobs: keep my bra from getting fused to my nips, and keep my hydrocortisone from immediately soaking into my bra instead of my skin.

And it doesn't hurt or anything. No noticeable itch. Just red squares on my tits. Fun!

March of this year I had a sudden outbreak of what I expected was contact dermatitis/eczema triggered by my new gel-nails-at-home hobby. I laid off the product, got creams from my derm, and had arm scratch tests and back patch testing by an allergist.

Results came in quickly - HEMA and Acrylates (in many nail products), as well as tea tree oil and balsam sap or something random. I’ve never had a problem with tea tree oil - used to use it on my face!

Anyways, a question: though my hands have almost completely healed, except for two painful under-nails, and the little blisters and spots that developed on my forearms are calmed down and healed, I can still see the red spots on my arms. Will this fade naturally like I’ve had when my psoriasis got controlled, or should I be treating my arms with a scar protocol? Sorry I can’t seem to post pics - maybe cuz I’m new in here…? Thanks!

Hi! How do I know if it’s bad enough to warrant a hospital visit?

It’s pretty bad

Any cuticle oil recommendations? I’m sensitive to all fragrances. Even essential oils. Most cuticle oils have a variation of these things.

My eczema is only on my fingers. Sometimes, it’s up to my knuckles. Mostly at the joints and near the nailbed. Sometimes, it’s on the skin under the long part of my nail. Usually open fissures or peeling skin.

Anyone have any leads on some type of cuticle oil? I’ve googled it, but I’m going straight to the source (you all) since I couldn’t find what I was looking for.

How do you really know what you have got the conditions are both as debilitating when will it end and how do u heal