2016-09-23 - Getting worse!

Damn, when will this stop! Getting really frustrating. Spread all over arm down to hands now. Left arm slightly worse.
Finding some Ibuprofen helps with easing the heat (and subsequent itching).
I stopped taking multivitamin's yesterday as well. I read that Folic Acid might encourage the blood vessels to open up.
Started taking magnesium and zinc yesterday as well.

2016-09-19 - Hot and burning arms :-(

Gah! Hot and itchy. So much for my arms getting better in the last week.

Hands are fine though.

2016-09-12 - Have had a nasty flare up on arms

I was enjoying really good skin since the end of May until around beginning of August. A few week ago near beginning of Aug my elbows started getting really itchy, wouldn't go away.
A couple weeks after that, started getting what looked like an allergic reaction to something all around the inside of my elbows! Been REALLY red and itchy for about a month now. Sucks. Haven't had anything like it since I started TSW.
Here's some pics of elbows today:

Those pics aren't as bad as it has gotten. I'm now hopeful that the worst of it is over as this morning I woke up and the skin was really flaky and not as red as usual. Hopefully this week things will clear up, fingers crossed...

2016-05-01 - flare over, peeling now...

Although the hands don't look that great, they feel so much better! Swelling is going down, redness died off and splits are healing. Skin peeling. Got three weeks or so for the peeling to stop while the new skin to come through...

2016-04-20 - Return of the blisters

Gah, blisters have come out on my hands again. They look very similar to pics from this blog.
Except from that blog which sums up my situation (although the blisters are much less itchy this time around for some reason, although my fingers can get really itchy):
Blisters on the hands. These tiny blisters can form on  the palms of the hands and soles of the feet. This is sometimes known as dyshidrotic or pompholyx eczema, although in my case, it was not a true eczema, but a direct result of the steroid withdrawal. The tiny blisters ooze a clear fluid, which can easily get infected, as the hands are in constant use. I try to keep my hands as clean as possible, and moisturise often. The blisters are very itchy and uncomfortable.

You can see on my finger knuckles the dry splitting skin, that's the worse, been like that for months now: 

Ignore the black spots, that's from paint:

2016-03-16 - Return of annoyance

Since new year, my knuckles have been flaring up on both hands. In first couple of months of 2016 it's been rather annoying with splitting skin on the knuckles. In March, it's died down a bit, but can flare up in to red and itchy. Just doesn't seem to want to go away!
Palms of hands and rest of my skin is totally fine.

2015-12-25 - One year on, Christmas present, healed!

A year ago, last Christmas was when I applied my last topical steroid in utter frustration and began researching. That's when I found about TSW and began my journey.

Thankfully, it only took me three months to get over the worst and a year on after a few flares, my skin is now better than it's ever been in memory. A niggling bit on my knuckle on my left hand has FINALLY healed (after two months of annoyance), in time for Christmas :-)

Annoying, it's been a full on season for hay fever here in NZ over past month and I've noticed that if I go running, I need my inhaler and I've been feeling hay fever effects, guess I'm not cured :-(