wondering

I have been prescribed a cream for an ongoing patch of skin damage, solar keratosis, which has been treated by burning with dry ice over the past ten years or so. The specialist who prescribed the cream was most insistent that I return to be checked after two weeks. Unfortunately the cream wasn't available until one week before I travelled.

Two weeks into treatment I have an itchy rash over most of my body, and my eyes have been bothering me for about a week. I have had a headache for ten days, I am not sleeping well and at times I think my fibromyalgia has recurred.

I am writing this because, unsure about the cause of the rash (it is pollen time here, I am eating a different diet, I am in a house with four cats), I researched the side effects of Aldara cream.

Wonder drug or dangerous medicine? I don't know, but I will stop using it and hope that no real damage has been done. I have had no adverse reaction at the application site (forehead) but enough of the reported side effects to wonder if this drug requires much more testing before it is prescribed. Surgery may have been a better option.

There will be no sun for me this summer. Perhaps I should have moved further north? (Just joking... I'm a wuss in the cold!)

Today I am grateful for cautious dermatologists.
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