Wrinkled and Crepey Skin after Chemo

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  • VLH
    VLH Member Posts: 1,258
    edited February 2019

    If only the moisture would have returned without the giant pores. Sigh...

    Thanks, Trishyla. My peripheral vision isn't dramatically impacted so I probably won't be able to get the problem corrected. It's more feeling like I have to lift the lids up from a comfort perspective, like the lids / hooded areas are so heavy that they're actively pushing down on my eyes. I think I'm especially aware of it when driving because I have progressive lenses and am looking out the top / distance portion of my lenses. Also, it's not a great idea to take both hands off the wheel when driving to hold up the lids like I can if I'm watching TV. 😉

    Lyn

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  • Trishyla
    Trishyla Member Posts: 1,005
    edited February 2019

    You'd be surprised, Lyn, how much impact it actually has on your peripheral vision. I know I was. Go get it checked. I went to get checked out of vanity, but ended up having the surgery because of necessity.

    Seriously, find a good ocular surgeon at a large hospital. They're more than happy to check it out for you.

    Trish

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  • VLH
    VLH Member Posts: 1,258
    edited February 2019

    Interesting...thank you, Trishyla. I recently got a larger Fire tablet on sale and was looking at a vividly colored scene on the 10 inch, higher resolution screen. I happened to close one eye; then, the other. I couldn't believe how different the image looked with the eye that is apparently farther along in cataract development. It almost looked like a very pale sepia transparency was dropped on the photo.

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  • WC3
    WC3 Member Posts: 1,540
    edited February 2019

    My skin looked pretty aged during chemotherapy. The reasons were three fold. I think chemotherapy kind of slows the cell turnover rate, and can shut down the sebaceous glands as well, resulting in dry skin.

    Estrogen not only makes skin look nice on the surface, it causes subcutaneous fat to accumulate in the face, giving a soft, youthful look, and making the region under the eyes look brighter and fuller, which is a sign of youth that our brain uses to determine age.

    So moisturizer, retin A and makeup. But make sure there is nothing in them that mimics estrogen.

    A bit of a funny story:

    I have a bit of a hollow face, particularly under my eyes. A few years ago, I was placed on very low dose birth control for a very short period of time (the pharmacist introduced me to an alternative without estrogen and possibly saved my life in doing so as I had cancer then and didn't know it and it's strongly ER+). Anyway, the estrogen filled out my face and increased my cup size (bad!!!) and out of the blue people started telling me how great I looked....and I did look pretty damn good!

    Anyway it wasn't worth my life though.

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  • dollyreed
    dollyreed Member Posts: 4
    edited February 2019

    It isn't easy is it WC3? Maybe in our lifetime they will formulate something that mimics the good properties of estrogen.


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