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Does stress impact your eczema?
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gazgeorge
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@Sophie1974 Hi there. They are definitely linked. The best advice I was given was to not bottle things up and let my emotions out. I had terrible eczema after losing my father. I realised I'd been so keen to keep life going I hadn't dealt with my grief and that my skin was displaying the suffering going on inside me.
Further to my other posts, the more stressed I became the more coffee and processed (junk) food I ate as well as getting poor quality sleep.
Have a good cry, try boxing at the gym, scream at the top of a hillside! But whatever you do, let your emotions flow as they will come out in other forms anyways (in my case horrid eczema). I now don't drink coffee and avoid processed foods, but relieving stress is paramount to curing eczema for me. I hope this experience helps.
mr chipps
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I have Eczema and it keeps flaring up and at present, i have it at the back and side of my legs . for me it is worst at night as it can be very uncomfortable and make my legs itch . it also affects me to the extent, that i can not have dogs as their hair makes it worse and if i scratch it, it can bleed. i have never considered it to affect my sleep?
for me it just another medical issue, to live with and not let it beat me or stop me from having as full a life as possible (perhaps this could be an idea for a new poem?)
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Sophie1974
Morning everyone,
I have asthma and a few respiratory allergies, but for the past several weeks I've had patches of eczema on my hands and neck. For my GP the only treatments has been cortisone cream, which works... until I run out of the cream and the patches reappear after two days.
I've been very stressed the past few months, as I think most of us have been, so I was wondering if you think that the stress and the eczema, and maybe even the asthma are linked?