Dear friends visiting this website,
I am desperately seeking help...I cannot do anything to help my boyfriend, cause I'm not a M.D, but I cannot agree to his suffering and do completely nothing about it either. He has atopy, a very bad case. For many years it was unrecognized and mistaken for another illness and the ill medical treatment he had received, has now it's consequences. The doctor gave him some steroid ointment to cure his skin, but it did not help; on the contrary, it "burnt" his skin, and almost completely destroyed skin lipids:( Now another doctor says that probably he will never recover from this:( He takes some moistening tablets and applies moisturizerto his face, but it doesn't help a bit, he says that he feels great pain all the time. He has been on a diet for 4 months, but it doesn't help either. I heard that atopy is incurable and I look for informations on websites, web forums, but they are mainly about allergy...and I think that in his case it's more about skin damage than allergy, and there is nobody with similar symptoms. I don't know what to do, he is almost a nervous wreck now...If you know anything about the medical treatment, ways of curing it, or M.D.'s who specialize in atopy, please, help. Any answer that would give me hope is extremely precious to me...
