Potential breakthrough regarding my rash?

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 9:55 pm

I think I just had a breakthrough regarding my worsening rash. The rash on my back had been developing painful superficial sores this week, just when I thought it was getting better. I can't lay on my back or sit back in a chair, and wearing a bra hurts! Turns out my doc told me to use my steroid cream more regularly. I'd been using it intermittently, because frankly, I never noticed that it did anything. He wanted me to apply it twice a day for 2 weeks. Each application hurt more and more. The skin felt tight and sore, and it hurt to spread the cream.

So it just hit me... I think I've been allergic to one or more of the inactive ingredients all this time!! OMG!!!! A year of potential setbacks every time I applied it?

These are the ingredients:
Each gram of the 0.05% cream contains clobetasol propionate 0.5 mg in a cream base of propylene glycol, glyceryl monostearate, cetostearyl alcohol, glyceryl stearate, PEG 100 stearate, white wax, chlorocresol, sodium citrate anhydrous, citric acid anhydrous, and purified water.

I think I'm sensitive to propylene glycol for starters, but I plan to see an allergist for confirmatory testing of cosmetic and environmental allergies (confirm the nickel allergy, find others). I'll ask for food testing too.

The red flag for me was reading that allergy to the cream should be considered when there is a lack of healing from using it. After all, steroids should work like magic, and I've never noticed any benefit from it. Duh!!

So I'm stopping the steroid cream for now. I'm going back to my trusty coconut oil butter. But I needed some thicker relief tonight so I had my kids apply gobs of All-Natural Budreaux's Butt Paste! Had some left from the diapering days. Figured the zinc and oils might help (no soy or wheat-related oils). Zinc suncreens feel pretty good too. Feels better so far, skin not so tight, itch is mild.

Tomorrow I'll apply fresh aloe vera from a plant my MIL gave me.

Can't be consumed by this stupid rash anymore!!!

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:24 pm

OMG! My investigative skills failed me. How could I overlook the stupid steroid cream?!?? I'm such an idiot!
I probably need to take more prednisone pills to stop the reaction to the prednisone cream!

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/s ... 00145.html

JLH · Post by **JLH** » Sun Sep 15, 2013 10:32 pm

It's found in some dog food!!!!!!!!!!

gluten · Post by **gluten** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 12:57 pm

Hi Zizzle, How are doing after you stopped taking the antibiotic?

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 1:02 pm

The antibiotic "cured" my MC for a few days, almost a week, and the rash only slightly worsened. Makes me want to try them for a longer course, but I don't know. The sores on my back got worse as I used the steroid cream more regularly, so I have to assume it was the cream, not a result of the antibiotics.

mzh · Post by **mzh** » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:01 pm

I was given a steroid cream for hemorrhoids and fissures. The doc who prescribed them said to use it as little as possible b/c it will delay healing. I guess they exist to get rid of the discomfort but not cure the problem. Could be the same with your back. What a mess of ingredients in your cream too!

gluten · Post by **gluten** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 11:36 am

Hi Zizzle, I looked at the bacterias that the bactrim is designed to destroy. I tried to match it will the antibiotic I take before any dental appointment because I had two days of norman with a 2000 mg dose before my appointment. Could the rash be caused by the toxins created by the die-off of the bacteria that was destroyed by the bactrim? Jon

Zizzle · Post by **Zizzle** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 12:06 pm

Jon,
I wondered that myself. But I haven't taken an antibiotic in 8 years, and the rash continues to wax and wane despite this, so it's hard to make a connection to the antibiotic. I am now 2 days without the evil clobetasol cream and I am so much better. Skin is less dry, hurts less, going from red to pink, and sores are finally healing. No more chemicals for me!!

gluten · Post by **gluten** » Tue Sep 17, 2013 9:30 pm

Hi Zizzle, Your immune system needed help and the antibiotic helped destroy the pathogen. The different levels of the rash means that your immune system is working without the use of antibiotic. Now, to find which pathogen the bactrim destroyed and why does it return. The results from my immune system tests showed that it is in overdrive. Jon