OT - /eczema/dermatologists

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- I noticed you said you had eczema on your nails. Well, I've had

psoriasis on my fingernails since I was in the 9th grade. I was already a

self-conscious, overweight teen, and I thought that having ugly fingernails

would just make it even more obvious that I was a freak of nature and would

never have a boyfriend. So, Mom took me to a dermatologist and I had

several visits where he used a gun-type injector at the base of each

fingernail to try to fix it. Not fun, but tolerable. Well, it would cause

some healthy nail to grow, but then the psoriasis just came back. When he

said that the only other alternative was to try shots with a large

hypodermic needle, I decided to live with it. I still have it to this day,

although I do believe that hormones play a role, as it has improved some as

I've aged. Anyway, my nails have small pits in them. Is that what your

eczema was like or more a flaking? Just curious.

Jeanne in WI

> Debra, I used to get eczema on my hands --- even on my nails! Now I have

> a very nasty form of a rare form of pustular psorris on one foot --- that

> I have learned to ignore as I am no longer working and it now longer gets

> to the state it did back in the late 1990's. But what I was told by a

> dermatologist back in the 1970's was to use Tone as it had few additives

> than other forms of soap on Eczema that would pop up from time to time.

> And over the years I have been very much a believer in Tone.