Post by Anon on Jan 16, 2005 1:24:47 GMT 1
Dear Martin
Thank you for all of your advice!!
I was hoping that if I give you more detail about my problem that you may have some ideas on how to release the symtpon as I still cna't do and and am not even sure if I know what it is.
It all began in June04. A few months before I had split up with my partner of five years. I was upset but picked myself up and was feeling extreemly good and happy again. Part of my stratagy for getting through the break up was to focus on improveing my health and body. So I started at the gym and began paying more attention to my skin.
The in October something happend. I noticed a mark on the corner of my face which looked like a tiny stretch mark. I thought nothing of it at first but then it became more and more apparant to me. I thought that this could not be as it is unheard of to get these on your face. Anyway I looked opn the internet and found out that it can happen if you have been using topical steroids. I have used these in the past. The funny thing is though that i used them on my forhead and not on my cheecks. So i checked my forhead only to find that there appears to be loads of them developing .
They are hard to distinguish at first but when they heal they become a lighter colour that the rest on my skin. I have been to see thre dematologists and they are all saying that what I am seeing is a combination of acne and hyperpigmentation but I am finding this hard to believe because every day I see them looking more and more like the stretch marks I have on other parts of my body. Further to this all of my other stretch marks are getting worse and worse it is as if they are slowwy convering my body.
It is as if something wanted me to notice them because the marks I noticed in my chin isn'ty even there any more it was as if it was shown to me so I rthat I woud see the bigger picture if you see what I mean. Since October my life has stoped am extreemly depressed. All I can do is go to work then I come hoeme. I am even considerig leaving my job. Each morning when I wake up I am filled with fear at what Ia am ging to see on my face on body I continually check my face in the mirorr for fear that they are noticable to other people.
I am so unhappy. I have suffered with excema since child hood and for years couldn't wear skirts ir t-shirts because my body was coverd in excema. Eventually my exema disapeard in2003 and I could wear what I wanted and felt so free for the first time in years. But now what has happend is that my body is being converd with another problem (stretch marks) and these are permanent. I am so depressed because it was like having a taste of freedepn whchi has now been taken away again.
I know it must be sometihng in my conciousness that is causeing this but I dont know what or how to stop it.
Any ideas would be really apreaciated, I jist wany my skin back
Thank you
Thank you for all of your advice!!
I was hoping that if I give you more detail about my problem that you may have some ideas on how to release the symtpon as I still cna't do and and am not even sure if I know what it is.
It all began in June04. A few months before I had split up with my partner of five years. I was upset but picked myself up and was feeling extreemly good and happy again. Part of my stratagy for getting through the break up was to focus on improveing my health and body. So I started at the gym and began paying more attention to my skin.
The in October something happend. I noticed a mark on the corner of my face which looked like a tiny stretch mark. I thought nothing of it at first but then it became more and more apparant to me. I thought that this could not be as it is unheard of to get these on your face. Anyway I looked opn the internet and found out that it can happen if you have been using topical steroids. I have used these in the past. The funny thing is though that i used them on my forhead and not on my cheecks. So i checked my forhead only to find that there appears to be loads of them developing .
They are hard to distinguish at first but when they heal they become a lighter colour that the rest on my skin. I have been to see thre dematologists and they are all saying that what I am seeing is a combination of acne and hyperpigmentation but I am finding this hard to believe because every day I see them looking more and more like the stretch marks I have on other parts of my body. Further to this all of my other stretch marks are getting worse and worse it is as if they are slowwy convering my body.
It is as if something wanted me to notice them because the marks I noticed in my chin isn'ty even there any more it was as if it was shown to me so I rthat I woud see the bigger picture if you see what I mean. Since October my life has stoped am extreemly depressed. All I can do is go to work then I come hoeme. I am even considerig leaving my job. Each morning when I wake up I am filled with fear at what Ia am ging to see on my face on body I continually check my face in the mirorr for fear that they are noticable to other people.
I am so unhappy. I have suffered with excema since child hood and for years couldn't wear skirts ir t-shirts because my body was coverd in excema. Eventually my exema disapeard in2003 and I could wear what I wanted and felt so free for the first time in years. But now what has happend is that my body is being converd with another problem (stretch marks) and these are permanent. I am so depressed because it was like having a taste of freedepn whchi has now been taken away again.
I know it must be sometihng in my conciousness that is causeing this but I dont know what or how to stop it.
Any ideas would be really apreaciated, I jist wany my skin back
Thank you