9 weeks in and I am hurting.  I have never itched and ached so much in my life.  I would do anything to get the time back and stop taking steroids years ago.  This is so hard.

Yesterday I went to a visit with Dr. Rapaport, the only doctor in So Cal that I know of who acknowledges the danger of topical steroids.  Sadly my nephew Derek, who is 4, is also going through withdrawals.  This is going to be a hard year for our family, but we are on the path to recovery.  Until that 'cured' day comes it will lots of coconut oil, baths, and tears for us.

I am not better, but everyday I am off topical steroids means I am one day closer to complete healing.

I am having another acupuncture appointment today and looking forward to it.  With my TSW recovery a lot has changed in me inside and out.  My mentality is changing, my food intake has drastically changed, my skin is changing and what I know is right and what I see in myself is also changing.  My skin is not as red as it had been but I still have the rough/scaly skin associated with eczema all over my shoulders, neck, face, arms and stomach.  It is also on my legs.  But it is not flaming red or hot like it was.  I am able to calm myself without having to apply endless amounts of coconut oil and at night I usually only apply the coconut oil once and only on my mouth and chin.  In the first month I would wake in the middle of the night and apply oil everywhere, it was so dry.  But now my skin has a different dry.  I can do this and I will.  I also have not has those skin thickening flare up in the evening where it feels like my skin is growing thicker and it bright red and inflamed.

I can do this!

This is hard and I am praying for me to fight this faster than I have read others to do.  I am in my second month and have seen great improvements.  I am striving to clean my liver and other organs especially my skin.  Skin is the largest organ in the body and I also just learned that it can also act as a second liver.  When the liver is overloaded by the food and immune system we intake the toxins can be carried outside of the liver and then filtered through the skin.  So many who have eczema also have this issue where the body cannot filter something the body is taking in and thus the eczema appears on the skin. 


I can do this!

Another first for me, acupuncture.  I have been twice in the last few days and am going again tomorrow.  It is very relaxing, does not hurt much and the doctor said he can help me get my blood moving and clean out my liver faster.  Prayers please.