Just face is horribly dry after "tx" 2 yrs ago, anyone else?

hi, just wanted to let you know, I also keep having side effects, my face peeled again, a few weeks ago....no idea what triggered that. It has improved ...and not sure what I am doing or not doing for the improvement.

It is the the treatment that keeps giving, my nails still split and have not been the same since.

Sorry you are going through this still, hope it starts to improve for you. Have you talked to your doctor at all ?

I would try and talk to your oncologist or maybe even a skin specialist.

Wishing you all the best

hi macb04,

A friend of mine recommends coconut oil ( organic) , and I have started using some of the moisturizers left over from radiation treatment....my hands are also a mess. I will keep you posted if it helps.

Let's hope in a few years, we have a few less symptoms from all the treatments.

((Hugs))

Hi Macb. I can relate. After years of chemo and hormonal treatments, the skin on my face reminded me of alligator. I think you're right about lack of estrogen. After I had an oopherectomy, I looked like a decrepit old hag. Just posting to say I found great improvement using a sugar scrub and African black soap to wash off the scrub. There are several recipes on the web for homemade sugar scrubs, but sweet almond oil and raw sugar is my fave. Sometimes, if I have some in the house, I add some mushed up pomegranite seeds to the mix to help deal with the wrinkles. As an added bonus, it also seems just abrasive enough to wear off the disgusting little beard hairs that also appeared after the ooph. Not bad enough treatments make us sick, they gotta make us ugly too.

ETA: if you're going to try this, I should mention using an oil that's low on the comodogenic scale. I used coconut oil once and I ended up with a bunch of whiteheads. Lived and learned. Also, there are a lot of black soaps out there. I use one that contains a lot of oil.

So lego you don't need a moisturizer afterwards? How often do you scrub? Must look up black soap.

Yes my face is much drier after ooph. So is my scalp. Hard to imagine.

Zills, I still have to moisturize, but after scrubbing, it seems to sink in. I scrubbed every day for a couple weeks at first...now about three times a week. Before, any moisturizer just kind of sat on top like an oil slick and my skin was always dry no matter how much I slapped on. Dry and greasy....didn't even know that was possible. Yuck.

After the ooph, I swear my skin took on the texture of a handbag overnight....and the wrinkles.....yikes! One day it was fine and the next I looked ten years older.

Dee, my son suffered a lot with eczema when he was little and using all that cortisone cream just didn't feel right. If you're not sensitive to smells, have you tried Shea butter on those dry areas? I find it (pure, unrefined) works the best, but I recently posted about finding some that's good quality. Everyone seems to be scamming and blatantly lying about their commercial products lately. The good stuff is really hard and smells bad It also has a bit of natural sunscreen (cinnamic acid) if you're concerned about wrinkles, so one less irritating, toxic thing you have to put on your face.

Zills, so glad you asked before you bought it. If your little girl's skin is already dry, the black soap would dry it out even more, I think. I only use it to get the oil off my face after the sugar scrub. It's a pretty intense soap. Lots of people use it to deal with acne because of the fact it strips oil. I think an oatmeal soap would be better for a young kid's dry skin. If you want to use it on yourself though, I just picked it up at the local health food store. Looks like a big hunk of cow poop, actually.

thank you! I'll look at the coop next time I'm in town.