I was surfing the web for people who got addicted to topical steroids like me from using it for years for eczema and found your comments to be exactly what my support group is talking about. We founded back in June due to Kelly Palace, who created a website called AddictedSkin.com after visiting a Dr. Marvin Rapaport in Beverly Hill, Ca. who named this condition red skin syndrome or steroid creme addiction.

We are working at getting a bigger website up and running, more pr and and have a petition for the pharmaceutical makers to label the topical steroid with a warning that addition can occur in 5 days for over 60 percent of people who are atopic.

I posted a link to your forum in our Google support group forum and hope we can double our efforts on this steroid creme addiction and withdrawal hell. We have people joining from all over the world every week. Some children are suffering the withdrawals in our group and that is just a travesty.

Please feel free to check out our websites as a few of us have gotten our own so we can go viral with this and prevent so many people from suffering this terrible pain. God bless~Joey Brown

Websites are links on redskinsyndrome.com

I also am taking some oregano oil, a drop or two. it goes great with my pizza face.

I wish i was an animal that never saw its reflection. Then i wouldnt have made matters worse by self treating. but as some of you said, your doctors prescribed it. i have only myself to blame (and my mom who i borrowed it from).

who would have known that this cream can change skin so dramatically. i still dont understand it. its not logical. i can understand acid destroying the face, or gasoline melting your face permanently. but an innocuous cream in a white petrolatum base? you hear about side effects of medicinal ointments and you start to think that these side effects are rare. they are not.

be careful about drugs that have been invented in the past 100 years. these dont have the test of time . i want everyone to use steroid cream on their face , for a month. and then maybe doctors will be a little bit more cautious.

but im used to the pain so its nothing new. I’m not freaking out. Heat seems to make it worse, makes the burning worse. But so does cold, it makes my skin dry out and my body doesnt seem to tolerate cold anymore. so in a way i prefer the warmth (just avoid direct sunlight, stay in shade). its a real nightmare/ cant stop thinking about whats on my skin. its a bit like feeling a sunburn. or poison ivy weeping after you itch it.

There is only one type of gold bond ultimate healing?

the thing about putting on creams is that it makes the skin shedding (exfoliation) a little more difficult. im a ‘rubber’, which means when i feel something foreign on my skin i start rubbing vigorously and it creates a cascade of bad events. my face turns into a red beet volcano when i start rubbing. and then i want to die.
i dont mind skin flaking off , like dust. but if the dead skin is stuck in some sort of oil, i will freak out. so i take the pain.

i realize that i have not yet gone cold turkey, since i am rubbing and doing all sorts of things with my face.

Yes I did prescribed by a doctor I had never been too and it worked. However I ended up with Steroid Roscea. As I stated used all kinds Pro-Topic, Eidel, etc.to try and control it. Nothing worked but this Gold Bond Ultimate Healing has been amazing for me. No more itching or bumps so far. My face would get tight and dry so I use the olive oil and sugar scrub when that occurs. I have very senstive skin also. You might want to try it. I understand its miserable.

I’m falling into this painful cycle. The skin on my cheeks keep getting thick and red (feels like a glove is over it), then i start rubbing it. When I rub it, first it feels great and this waxy stuff falls right off. But then my face gets red and it burns. This has been repeating now for months. its very hard to resist rubbing because my face feels like theres a glove over it , and i can feel the dead skin thats just building up.

Im trying to stop myself from rubbing. i want to let the skin naturally exfoliate without me having to rub it away. normal skin just sheds without having to rub it down.