But now I’m older then I do find it easier to sort of just be like look okay I know it itches but just don't touch it and sort of choose instead to go and get some moisturiser and rub into in. So I was quite an angry teenager so just going mental on it and just scratching myself till I bled and, you know, ignoring advice to just leave it alone and things like that. Although it was often said in a well-meaning way, it could feel like others didn’t understand how intense the itchiness is.īut when I was a teenager then I was a, I had a lot less self-control with regards to the scratching it and you know, sometimes it would just get to the point where I would just absolutely go to town on it, just get really frustrated and angry about it because obviously it’s hormonal as well so that didn’t help like hormone fluctuations making it worse as well. avoiding scratching by going out in public or spending time with other people who might find it “impolite”īeing told not to scratch by other people could be frustrating.
putting water (hot or cold/ice) on their skin.People tried to avoid scratching with a number of strategies. I’ve, I mean, I've tried it I've just sort of tried to, well I used to sort of squeeze parts of my body to just stop it but, even that just doesn't work. Yeh it's not just a random itch, it's… I don’t know, sometimes you just want to squeeze. So, yeh I definitely sympathise with people.īecause it's not an easy feat to sort of get over and just say, "Oh don’t itch it," or, "Don’t, you know it'll be fine." It's like it's really not. But, if you don’t scratch it you're going to feel worse so, I don’t know, it's just one of the things that even though you know it's bad you still have to do it because it's the only way that you can get any relief from it, if that makes sense? I mean that’s really bad because, if it was… it's obviously like I said, like a, just the circle never ends because you have to scratch it to get some relief from it but the more that you scratch it - you're making it worse. But this is just like, it's… like a weird sort of twitching and throbbing that it needs to sort of be itched otherwise… I don’t know, it just, you have to itch it. I mean, I think most of us try to sort of, if we have like an itchiness on ourselves, we've tried to sort of just like, if we don’t itch it it'll go away and usually it does if it's just like a random itch or over your body. It's, yeh, it's just an itchiness that won't go away. Messages for medical professionals treating young people with eczemaĮczema (young people) Eczema symptoms: what does eczema look and feel like?.Messages for other young people with eczema.Sources of information and support about eczema.Emotions and support for eczema at school/university.Managing symptoms, treatments and triggers at school/university.Friendships, intimate relationships and eczema.Impacts of eczema on exercise, social life and hobbies.
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