Guest guest Posted January 16, 2008 Report Share Posted January 16, 2008 I don't think this is related to Samters -- if you are hypothyroid that is a definite culprit, and menopause also can cause very dry skin. I have been in menopause twice from chemotherapy and most recently in 2007 I experienced severely dry skin from the menopause. AmLactin is a moisturizer that used to be prescription but it's now over the counter in the States (and cheap at Costco). That can help a lot. Also you may have to count down to showering/bathing to once a week, and always moisturizing right after you do shower, while your skin is still moist. Otherwise the shower will just take the moisture right out of your skin. You can clean yourself, but showering every day or even every other day will only make your dry skin worse. If these do not help, you may need to see a dermatologist. They can prescribe prescription creams, but most stuff is over the counter these days. HTH Lori First of all, I want to say I appreciate the discussion and critical > thinking around this, so anything I say must be put in that context. > Obviously no one knows everything about this. > > I don't know who says > that a subset of Samter's patients do not have > asthma. I have never agreed with this idea. I think the full-blown > Samter's syndrome with all three components can take a while to > develop, but I think all three are part of the diagnosis. If not, I > would like to see where it says so. I have heard people here say > they have Samter's without one of the three areas, but I have never > seen it written anywhere in any definition of the syndrome. That's > why it's called a triad. I suspect people who only have two parts of > the triad probably do have the third and it's just very mild or it > has not developed yet. I could be wrong, but I still believe that it > is and must be a triad. > > Besides, for some of us, our aspirin sensitivity in Samter's is not > always just aspirin-sensitive asthma. It is a whole syndrome. When > I take aspirin I have many systems involved, not just my lower > respiratory tract. It is my sinuses, my stomach, my > skin, my > cardiovascular system. AND the asthma in Samter's is not only from > aspirin (neither are the polyps). > > So there are three components, and without the three components I > have always held that it is a little bit short of a diagnosis of this > syndrome. I actually do NOT think AERD is meant to be a broader > diagnosis. I think it is meant to be a more narrow diagnosis. > > I don't think people have to be scanned for polyps. If they have no > symptoms at all, they likely have no polyps. Surely someone with any > degree of nasal polyps would have some symptoms. > > There are multiple members in multiple generations of my family who > have asthma that is caused only from aspirin and NSAIDs and they have > no other symptoms related to aspirin, allergies, sinuses or > otherwise. They do not have Samter's syndrome. They have aspirin- > sensitive asthma, or aspirin-induced asthma, if you will, and there > are many, many, many > people who have this, not just in my family. It > is much more common than Samter's. Also, I thought this was maybe > what son was referring to in that cardiology article anyway. > > My father had nasal polyps, but he is not sensitive to aspirin and > does not have asthma, and he had the polyps removed many decades ago > and they never came back. > > I don't think your theory about the development of Samter's is true > because the symptoms come in a different order for everyone. My > order was asthma first (very sudden onset in college), then aspirin > sensitivity two and a half years later, then about a year later sinus > problems (about three and a half years after the asthma symptoms > started) and eventually a diagnosis of the polyps. It was several > years before I got a diagnosis of Samter's when I came to New York > and found someone who knew about it. > > I did not have ANY sinus symptoms ever in my life before the asthma > or > until three years after development of the asthma. I had had a > CAT scan for something else in the interim and there were no polyps > on the scan. > > Anyway I am having surgery soon (unrelated to Samter's) so I will be > off the computer for a while, but I'm sure we can continue the > discussion at some point! > > Cheers > > Lori > > > > > Never miss a thing. Make your homepage. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Read what Santa`s been up to! For all the latest, visit asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com! > http://asksantaclaus.spaces.live.com/ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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