Hi Everybody!
I’m posting this because this is something that one of you professionals or clients may encounter some day, and you’ll be keener to notice and ask about it.
At the middle of October, I was beginning to have some difficulty keeping my skin healthy and recovering like I normally would from sessions. After having success, I was at odds trying to figure out what was going on. My skin was reddened, became itchy easily, bumps would come and go, and eschars just didn’t go away as fast as normally, and there was itching on the tops of my thighs. I even private messaged a pro here about how I was just maybe moving way too fast and needed to take a break. But even with slowing down, the skin irritation remained. I first thought it was the soap I was using, and switched to a hypoallergenic type. That helped a little, but still the rashing sporadically persisted. I was also having itching in other areas; below the neck, cheeks, upper chest, and waistline and groin. I even worried about having something like scabies.
But then the breakthrough sign happened. While on vacation, I banged the side of my knee on a piece of tacky hotel furniture (it really was tacky, I have to include that). Within a minute, bumps! All in the contact area! And they looked just like the post-electrolysis bumps I had been getting. Contact Dermatitis. But how, I could not figure out why I would all of a sudden be susceptible to Contact Dermatitis. I discussed it with my electrologist and she was, of course, concerned as well. I even had to skip a pro appointment, till I got this sorted out. I was questioning everything like power settings, aftercare, sterile technique, depth, cleanliness beforehand. It was a puzzle.
Well. Low and behold. I started using Flonase (Fluticasone Propionate) at about the beginning of October. That was the only thing that had stayed constant. Everything else had been changed. I had searched effects on the net and found nothing. But went back and looked through even more reports and found this:
One of the only few reports that list Contact Dermatitis. Well, I completely stopped using it and the rashes went away, just like that. Poof. It explained the foot instep rashes, waistline/ groin rashes, and neck rashes.
These days I really wonder how much truth the pharmaceutical companies give us. I have had friends and relatives tell me that they make a point of getting outside-of-America information on drugs just to get a better idea of what a drug is capable of in terms of side effects. This report is also one of the only ones to list it’s progesterone-like qualities as well.
I’m that much wiser, and that much happier. I’ll be glad to get back on my schedule and my pro’s schedule and continue with work that has covered much ground. For a while there I was worried that the work would be stalled as my machine sat cold for weeks. As for the discontinued Flonase, I’m going about it more naturally; no dairy before bed and keeping my residence dust free.
Everybody take care. Hope you all had a happy New Years, and have a happy new year.
Mantaray